A survey by Time magazine in 2001 asked Filipino if premarital sex is okay: 56 percent of males
and 39 percent of females said yes. When asked how many sexual partners they had had: 28
percent of males and 76 percent of females said one; 47 percent of males and 23 percent of females
said two to four; 17 percent of males and 2 percent of females said five to 12; and 8 percent of
males and 0 percent of females said more than 13.
In the 2001 Time sex survey 82 percent of males and 11 percent of females said they were the
ones who initiated sex; 69 percent of males and 48 percent of females said they had had oral sex;
and 55 percent of males and 68 percent of females said they thought they were sexy.
Dr. Jose Florante J. Leyson wrote in the Encyclopedia of Sexuality: “The peoples of the Philippine
archipelago, both indigenous and immigrant, Muslim, Christian, and other, reflect the cultural
attitudes and behavior of their mixed Malaysian and Chinese ancestries. There are also wide
variations because of the sociocultural and linguistic mix. However, the dominant Catholic Church,
the legislative body, and the educational system are essentially an amalgam of the old Hispanic
dogma and the modern Western flavor with the present public sexual morality reflecting the values of
these enduring institutions. |~|