I believe that culture plays a huge part in influencing decisions about contraception’s. I have a boyfriend that is Muslim, and his believes and culture played a huge role in his beliefs about contraceptives.
Here in America we are extremely open about sex compared to Pakistan, which is where he is from. They are not taught about contraceptives or diseases in Pakistan because you only have sex when you are married and if you’re both virgins (which you are suppose to be) than there is no need to worry about STD. His culture doesn’t believe is contraceptives, period, whether you’re married or not, contraceptive are not accepted in his culture. Needless to say when we first met I was way more educated than he was when it came to STD’s, sex, contraceptives, ect. I could not believe that he was so uneducated not only about sex but also about the whole reproductive system. When we met he was in college and so he knew a little about sex, and condoms, from health and science classes, but not a lot. For example he knew what a condom was but he couldn’t tell you how to put one on. Or he knew woman had periods but he couldn’t tell you why or how often. I, on the other hand knew this information early in life. Even though my parents were divorced and I lived with my dad, my mom did her best to inform me.
Dating him has been a great experience to me because it opened my eyes to other cultures, and how they view different topics. When I graduate I want to work with people and I am going to have to get use to other culture, religion and people with different backgrounds.
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