WOMAN SEXUALITYMOROCCANS WOMAN KNOWLEDGE

The sexuality has an important impact on the mental health, the social functioning and the quality of life of the woman. A good knowledge of its own body and the importance of the preliminary allow an awareness of erogenous zones, and to know all the resources which lead to the pleasure, to reach a satisfaction of the emotional, psychological and physical needs

Objectives: estimate the theoretical knowledge concerning the feminine sexuality in a population of Moroccan women, to emphasize their perception and their knowledge in this domain.

Methodology: a investigation with 100 women of 20 and more years old, all socioeconomic and educational levels. Use of anheteroquestionnary containing items relative to the anatomy of the body of the woman, to the preliminary, to the attitude of the woman during the sexual intercourse, and to the feminine orgasm

Results: in Morocco, country of Arab culture -berbero-Muslim- the sexuality is submitted toCultural, ethical, psychological and social, biological factor. In our study 88% of the women considered that the knowledge of the feminine genital anatomy is essential for the sexual self-fulfillment. Erogenous zones could be not genital parts of the body for 82%. In our study 48% of women know the role of the clitoris in the sexual pleasure, 20% have already heard about the G point, and only 8% were able to know how to placeit.Concerning the erogenous character of the G-spot, meadows of 87% of our investigated ignore this role. 46% think that the woman must be active during the sexual intercourse. In our study only 7% declared to know that there are 2 types of orgasms at the woman clitoral and vaginal.

Conclusion: it is very clear that the taboo remains heavy, the lack of information, and a sex education focusing on the hashouma (mixture of shame and prohibition), however, the majority of the investigated are for a sex education while respecting the cultural and religious values of our country.