Abstract
The study examines the combined and relative effects of Economic, Nature and Society on
Premarital sex. It made use of simple random technique in selecting 250 youths within Ikenne
local government in Ogun State, Nigerian. The age range of the respondents was between 15 to
35 years with the mean age of 24.5 and standard deviation of 3.291. The ex-post-facto research
design was employed. A 35 item; Youth Attitude towards Sexual Practices (YATSP) developed
by the Researcher was used to generate data for the study. All the hypotheses data were tested
at 0.05 level of significance. Data analysis involved the use of multiple regressions (backward),
ANOVA and Pearson product moment Correlation. The result indicated in model 3, that the
predictors’ variables accounted for 56.4% percent of the variation in premarital sexual
activities. Each of the independent variables contributes significantly to the Premarital Sexual
activities and a perfect positive correlation existed between Premarital Sexual activities and the
three independent variables. Suggestions were made based on the outcome.
