... So, people reporting a change in sexual behavior because of concern about AIDS reducing their number of sexual partners including having only one partner and getting married. Among all adults a number of sexual changes are reported as having been made to avoid AIDS. Monogamy or limiting the number of sexual ... sexually active and also an increase in the proportion sexually inactive. Sexual inactivity is much less common among younger adults. Among the currently married of those 18-49 are sexually inactive. Almost all of this group either have poorer than average health or rate their ma...

• Word Count: 21249
• Approx Pages: 85
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... promise that these "just say no" programs will keep teenagers from developing "too serious" relationships, from being emotionally hurt, from experimenting with intimacy and sexual behaviors, and, of course, from getting pregnant and contracting a sexually transmitted diseases. There is no reason to believe that these claims are true. Charles Morrison, family living and sexuality educator for Portland schools states, "To preach ... that they will eventually settle down into a heterosexually based, monogamous, nuclear family and produce children. Homosexuals, estimated to be somewhere bet...

• Word Count: 4341
• Approx Pages: 17
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... informed about abstinence, then they have received no guidance on what to do if they choose a sexually active lifestyle. Even if a young individual has chosen to abstain from sex until married, he or she may at some point find themselves in a position in which they change their mind. In a case like this one, an individual who has only received education on ... . These "just say no" programs promise to keep young people from developing "too serious" relationships, from being emotionally hurt, from experimenting with intimacy and sexual behaviors, and, of course, from getting pregnant and ...

• Word Count: 1038
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... for the 54% of teenagers in American high schools that have sexual intercourse. Abstinence-only advocates claim that "just say no- programmes prevent teenagers from engaging in sexual intercourse, from getting pregnant and from contracting sexually transmitted infections. These promises are attractive, but Debra Haffner of SIECUS, writes, "(t) here is no reason to believe that these claims are true. There are ... talk about AIDS and sexual behaviour at home or in the community, due to social, religious or even personal beliefs. And in many countries family planning clinics are restricte...

• Word Count: 4152
• Approx Pages: 17
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... it alone there is still a small amount of risk. Therefore, a combination of two of these methods is a sexually active person's most reliable way of preventing both. When trying to avoid getting pregnant and contracting STD's it is much better to have protection and not need it than to need protection and not have it. Barrier methods of contraception include the male ... a likely decision, such as long-term relationships in which both people are monogamous. Also, abstinence will most likely not be an option for couples that do not plan on being married. We must also keep in mind that the...

• Word Count: 1111
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... in Asia or even in some Western countries. Men are not seen as immoral or deviant and even their sexual behavior can be expressed in various ways outside marriage. Moreover, married men who have sex with other women are tolerated and not punished in the same way as women are. They can even get away with sex before marriage. So, to ... or contributes to increasing number of AIDS/HIV. Lastly, because men often hide their multiple sexual practices with women from their wives, their children are also at the risk of getting AIDS/HIV, which shouldn't definitely only be blamed at prostitutes. ...

• Word Count: 3438
• Approx Pages: 14
• Grade Level: Undergraduate