Pre marriage relationship: perspectives of male students

The objective of this study was to investigate on pre-marriage relationship between young adolescents from male students’ perspectives. This was a qualitative study of a sample of 20 male students. Focus group discussions were conducted to collect data. Content analysis was performed to explore the data. Three themes emerged from the analysis: motivation for pre-marriage relationship; facilitating and preventive sexual behaviors، reproductive health needs. Larger scale studies are needed to understand the topic more fully. However، as indicated by young male students there are different reasons for pre-marriage relationship between girls and boys. Such data could contribute to implementing more reproductive health orientated interventions in order to improve adolescents’ health.