This qualitative study was carried out with 24 French students, ages between 18 and 22 years. During this transitional period of their lives, young adults experience a sexual and affective wandering phase, and at the same time, aspire to an ideal married life. Sexual and affective wandering refers to the experience and its meaning for the most part of those interviewed. A married life or establishment of a monogamous stable relationship is the ideal aspired by the majority of men and women interviewed. Sexuality is experienced, throughout this transitional period, as a sometimes difficult and confusing experience of initiation that aims the construction of the self, and in the long term, the construction of the couple, beyond multiple "recreational" experiences.
Sexuality; Love; Sexual intercourse (human); Sex roles