In today's society, sexuality plays a central role in understanding romantic relationships and partnerships. In recent decades, Western societies have gone through a major cultural transformation in terms of sexuality and the factors associated with it. In addition to that, we can say that today there are different and diverse lifestyles among young people. Previous studies have shown that the sphere of intimacy has changed dramatically in recent decades under the influence of broader social changes, including the influence of reflective individualism. Individualization, reduction of traditional norms, democratization, and plurality of standards and values, were all highlighted as processes that are typical of modern reality. In this thesis, we were first interested in whether the partnerships of young people, specifically, the student population, differ or not. We wanted to see in whether they have characteristics that are important to modern society. We then associated the characteristics of the student population with traditional values, intimacy, and sexual desires. We then conducted a statistical analysis using the data from the 2010/2011 study ‘‘Intimni življenjski stili študentov in študentk v Sloveniji’’ (2018). The results from the statistical analysis showed that among students, there are statistically significant associations between romantic relationships, sexual desires, and traditional values. With this, we also confirmed that western trends that are emerging in the field of intimacy were applied to Slovenian students as well.
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