Title: Passionate uprisings: young people, sexuality and politics in post-revolutionary Iran.

POPLINE Document Number: 313779

Author(s):

Mahdavi P

Source citation:

Culture, Health and Sexuality, 2007 Sep-Oct;9(5):445-457.

Abstract:

This paper examines the sexual and social practices of young people in contemporary Iran. Young people in urban areas live under the rubric of a fundamentalist, Islamist regime which restricts social freedoms such as premarital heterosexual contact, homosexual encounters, dancing, alcohol consumption and large group gatherings. Drawing on close focus research and individual and group inteviews, this paper seeks to analyse young people's responses to these constraints. Findings suggest that many young adults use their 'rebellious' social behaviour to make political statements against a regime that dissatisfies them; saying, in their own words, that they are enacting and bringing about a 'sexual revolution'. (author's)

Keywords:

Iran
Research Report
Qualitative Research
Interviews
Focus Groups
KAP Surveys
Youth
Students
Urban Population
Social Behavior
Sex Behavior
Government
Conservatism
Religious Aspects
Developing Countries
Middle East
Research Methodology
Data Collection
Surveys
Sampling Studies
Studies
Age Factors
Population Characteristics
Demographic Factors
Population
Education
Behavior
Political Factors
Sociocultural Factors
Religion