ABSTRACT
Sexual communication is still considered taboo. Therefore, this research aims to investigate parent–adolescent sexual communication, barriers to communication, and communication methods from the perspectives of the Z generation. A qualitative survey has been administered to 325 adolescents aging from 12–22 years old. Data analysis was performed by means of MAXQDA software. The result indicated that ‘never’ was the highest response the participants gave in almost all topics of sexual communication with 82.5% on contraception topic, 48.99% on unexpected pregnancy, 47.7% on HIV/AIDS disease, 34.2% on the prohibition of unmarried relationship, and 54.5% on the sexual relationship. The main reasons adolescents never expected to talk about topics related to premarital sex were due to shyness (64.4%) and fear (26.0%). The fear shown by the respondents existed because of personal anxiety that their parents would get mad at them and blame them for premarital sex. In this research, it was also found that there were two models or communication methods favored by Gen-Z for sex education, namely counseling (44%) and preaching (30%).
