Culture, Religiosity & Self-Discipline as Determinants of Female Indulgence in Premarital Sex in Oke-Ogun, Nigeria

This research examined culture, religiosity & self-discipline as determinants of female indulgence in premarital sex in Oke-ogun, Nigeria.The data was sourced for the study using a non-probability sampling technique (purposive) based on gender. The population used for the study was gotten from threerandomly selected local governments in Oke-ogun, Oyo State, Nigeria. A total of 450 respondents were randomly selected from the 3 local governments. The target respondents were adolescent and adult females.A total of 530 questionnaires were administered while 450 questionnaires were used for the final analysis of the research work. Random sampling technique was used to randomly select the respondents. Data were collected with validated questionnaire. The statistical methods used to test the five research questions were Pearson product moment correlation(PPMC), and multiple regression, while Analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used to test the two hypotheses at 0.05 significance level which generated the following findings; culture(ethnicity), religiosity and self-discipline are significant predictors of premarital sex, self-discipline been the most potent. Further, the ethnicity with the highest female premarital sex was Igbo, Yoruba and Hausa respectively. Christianity religion recorded the highest premarital sex, followed by Islam, traditionalists been the least. Recommendations were made based on the research resul