Aim of the study:
Sexual health is central to holistic health care; studies indicate that health professionals are uncomfortable raising sexual issues partly because of their conservative sexual attitude. India hosts a multitude of social beliefs and cultural traditions. Everybody including Health professionals have certain beliefs hardwired into their mindsets, including attitude towards sexuality. so we aim to study the change in students’ attitude towards various aspects of own and others-sexuality & to explore the gender difference in same.

Subject or material and methods:
A prospective study was conducted in a medical college of Gujarat. The study was conducted in medical students in their 3rd year. Data were collected using Trueblood Sexual Attitudes Questionnaire and those were compared to the data of same students collected in their 1st year, in order to see the change in attitude toward sexuality. (Using paired & unpaired t test)

Results:
The study showed that the students had a positive attitude towards own-sexuality for all domains, after 3 years in medical college. In attitudes towards others-sexuality, students still had a negative attitude towards masturbation & commercial sex. This change of attitude was statistically significant for all students, except in male students’ attitude towards others-sexuality.

Discussion:
Sexual health related topics and frequent encounters with patients with different sexual health needs gave students a better understanding of same, but the results are still unsatisfactory.

Conclusions:
It can be concluded that: The students had a positive attitude towards own-sexuality after 3 years in medical college. In attitude towards others-sexuality, students still had a negative attitude towards masturbation and commercial sex.