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Background and Aim: Premarital sex is forbidden legally, culturally, and religiously in Iran. Compared to other youth, this behavior is less common among religious youth and theists. This study aimed at providing a systematic review of the relation between religion and spirituality and premarital sex among youth in Iran. Materials and Methods: In this systematic review, PubMed, Scopus, PreQuest, Google Scholar, Magiran, Irandoc, and SID databases were searched for articles published until April 2017 using some keywords, including premarital sexual relationship, religion, spiritual, etc. All papers on the relation between religious, spirituality, and premarital sex among Iranian youth were investigated. We found 162 articles, from which 13 were selected based on the study’s inclusion criteria. Afterwards, qualitative analysis of data was conducted. Results: A total of 8636 youth had been studied in 13 quantitative studies. Many studies had investigated the relationship between religion and premarital sex (53.85%). Other studies included the association between religion and the attitudes towards premarital sex and the desire for that. Conclusion: Compared to other countries, there are few studies on the relation between religion and spirituality and youth sexual behavior in Iran. According to the importance of premarital sexual relation among Iranian youths, and heterogeneity of information on this subject in previous studies, further researches are required with strong methodologies and more culturally appropriate tools. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background and Aim: Premarital sex is forbidden legally, culturally, and religiously in Iran. Compared to other youth, this behavior is less common among religious youth and theists. This study aimed at providing a systematic review of the relation between religion and spirituality and premarital sex among youth in Iran. Materials and Methods: In this systematic review, PubMed, Scopus, PreQuest, Google Scholar, Magiran, Irandoc, and SID databases were searched for articles published until April 2017 using some keywords, including premarital sexual relationship, religion, spiritual, etc. All papers on the relation between religious, spirituality, and premarital sex among Iranian youth were investigated. We found 162 articles, from which 13 were selected based on the study’s inclusion criteria. Afterwards, qualitative analysis of data was conducted. Results: A total of 8636 youth had been studied in 13 quantitative studies. Many studies had investigated the relationship between religion and premarital sex (53.85%). Other studies included the association between religion and the attitudes towards premarital sex and the desire for that. Conclusion: Compared to other countries, there are few studies on the relation between religion and spirituality and youth sexual behavior in Iran. According to the importance of premarital sexual relation among Iranian youths, and heterogeneity of information on this subject in previous studies, further researches are required with strong methodologies and more culturally appropriate tools.

One of the most important topics have been studied in Cultural geography field, is investigating the relationship between environment conditions and its effects on culture and how their mutual influence on each other. In this regard, some cultural elements are raised by natural geography condition and is related by natural dimensions and characteristics of geographic space. These ecological characteristics lead formation of the unique cultural landscape of space. In other word, the reasons for the emergence of this symbol culture were related to natural features. For example, many part of the religion function include provide solutions for problems that there are in the place. This trend is terminated to the formation of religious thoughts that particularly is led by natural space. Obviously, Religion in Iran is certainly not the exception in this category, and there is some part of fundamental causes of characteristics Religions in Iran were affected by natural foundations of Iran’s plateau. In this regard, in this paper this question has been proposed, how had been affected natural geographical indexes on religious thoughts before Islam rise and after it? In this research for responding to this question, have been struggled with explanting and analytical approaches, was checked natural fundamental causes of religious thoughts in Iran. Finding research reveals that, natural conditions of Iran plateau or even in the Middle East such as climatologic characteristics or geomorphologic conditions, hydro issues, have been very effective roles on religious thoughts before entering of Islam to Iran and after it.