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Purpose: The purpose of this study was to confirm the effects of lectures on sexuality and investigate changes in students' sexual knowledge and consciousness. Method: The subjects in this study were 50 students at K University in Busan, and the research period was from the of March to the of June 2004. This study was designed to be one-group pretest-posttest. Data were analyzed by frequencies, percentages, means, standard deviations, paired t-test and -test using the SPSS 10.0 program. Results: 1. The score of sexual knowledge increased from 14.48 before the education to 15.70 after and the difference was statistically significant (t=3.926, p<.001). 2. Significant differences of sexual consciousness were observed in 'the extent of sexual behavior' (=12.584, p<.05), 'the meaning of intercourse' (=46.014, p<.001), 'the self attitude of premarital purity' (=84.686, p<.001), 'the premarital intercourse' (=75.323, p<.001), 'the definition of purity' (=23.770, p<.001), 'the general premarital purity attitude' (=32.305, p<.001), 'the conception of love, sex and marriage' (=38.452, p<.001) and 'the premarital sex experiences' (=50.210, p<.001). Conclusions: This study showed that a sexuality course has effects on increasing sexual knowledge and changing the consciousness in university students.