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From:Practice Nurse (Vol. 22, Issue 2)Thirty per cent of young people have had unprotected sex in the past 12 months, the Durex Report 2001 finds. Almost a quarter of 16-20 year olds surveyed didn't use a condom during sex because they got carried away and...
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From:Sexually Transmitted Infections (Vol. 78, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedThe Children Act 1989 (1) defines a child as "a person who has not yet reached 18 years of age." In England, Wales, and Scotland the present age of consent for heterosexual and homosexual sex is 16 years and in Northern...
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From:Journal of School Health (Vol. 59, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedFree Condoms in the Schools of Copenhagen, Denmark ABSTRACT: Attitudes of ninth grade students and their classroom teachers toward using condoms as a preventive measure against contracting AIDS were studied....
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From:The Chronicle of Higher Education (Vol. 45, Issue 21)A broad annual survey of 275,811 freshmen from 469 higher-education institutions in 1999 found that only 51% of them believe abortion should be legal, which is a decline of 14%t since 1990. Furthermore, according to the...
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From:The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide (Vol. 15, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedPerhaps this issue's title should be followed by a question mark: is there a "science" of homosexuality? If so, what exactly is its object of study, and what is it trying to explain? Some scholars would argue that what...
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From:Journal of School Health (Vol. 75, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedService learning has been identified as a promising approach to reduce sexual risk behavior, among other outcomes. This study used qualitative data analysis to offer suggestions for optimally integrating service...
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From:Adolescence (Vol. 36, Issue 144) Peer-ReviewedThis study examined bidirectional relationships between age at first sexual intercourse and academic goals and achievement. It was hypothesized that lower educational goals and achievement would be associated with...
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From:The Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality (Vol. 6, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe behavior of adolescent virgins and non-virgins varies in several significant ways. Virgins tend to be in grades 9-11, be female, do 14 or more hours of homework a week, and be Asian. Non-virgins tend to have been...
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From:Adolescence (Vol. 41, Issue 161) Peer-ReviewedAttitudes and outcomes of sex education received by North American women are examined via an Internet survey (N = 1,400). Mean age was 19.5, with 24% reporting one or more unplanned pregnancies. Women were more...
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From:Studies in Family Planning (Vol. 31, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe principal aim of this study of adolescents in Mbale District, Uganda, is to provide program-related information about their behavior, motivations, and perceptions of risk with regard to pregnancy and HIV...
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From:Adolescence (Vol. 29, Issue 114) Peer-ReviewedSexual behavior was surveyed in 1991 for the fourth time in 17 years at a northeastern college with 98 male and 148 female participants. Variables included virginity, religiosity, relationship to parents, relationship to...
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From:Youth & Society (Vol. 29, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedQualitative research with 127 low-income young men and women (ages 14 to 30) in Rio de Janeiro found rigid gender roles with males displaying widespread machista values. Males viewed violence toward women as...
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From:The Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality (Vol. 9, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedManning, W.D., Longmore, M.A., & Giordano, P.C. (2000). The relationship context of contraceptive use at first intercourse. Family Planning Perspectives, 32, 104-110. A number of U.S. studies have measured rates of...
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From:International Family Planning Perspectives (Vol. 27, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedPeruvian secondary school students' perceptions of their peers' sexual activity is one of the most consistent predictors of their own behavior, according to results of a survey conducted in nine cities. [1] For example,...
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From:The Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality (Vol. 8, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe McCreary Centre Society. (1999). Healthy Connections: Listening to BC Youth, Highlights from the Adolescent Health Survey II. Burnaby, BC: The McCreary Centre Society. The Adolescent Health Survey (ASH) conducted...
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From:Journal of School Health (Vol. 65, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedA total of 588 secondary students completed a 25-item survey on perceptions regarding nonconsensual sexual activity. Subjects included an equal percentage of males and females and were predominately White (61%), freshmen...
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From:Studies in Family Planning (Vol. 29, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThis article reviews the literature on health consequences of adolescent sexual behavior and childbearing in sub-Saharan Africa, and the social and cultural context in which they occur. It suggests that, in addressing...
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From:The Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality (Vol. 9, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT: Canada has a reliable national data base on rates of teen pregnancy and reportable sexually transmitted infection (STI) and these measures are often used as indicators of trends in adolescent sexual health. In...
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From:The Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality (Vol. 13, Issue 3-4) Peer-ReviewedLangstrom, N., & Zucker, K.J. (2005). Transvestic fetishism in the general population: prevalence and correlates. Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy, 31, 87-95. In basic terms, fetishistic transvestism is defined as...
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From:The Western Journal of Medicine (Vol. 172, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedSummary Points * Adolescents are exposed to many sexual images and messages on television that are almost universally presented in a positive light with little discussion of potential risks and adverse consequences...