The society, peer pressure, and the media play the major part in gearing adolescents to finding out about, knowing, and finally engaging in sexual intercourse before they are both physically and mentally capable of handling the reality that accompanies sexual activities. ... Another important factor that contributes to teenagers having early sex is peer pressure. One of the most common issues that affect adolescents" behavior is concern with peer approval. ... Also related to the issue of teenage sex due to peers is the lack of good communication between parents and teenagers, and the wanted...

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There are many obstacles in the challenge of dating; peer-pressure, television, older partners and movies that imply sex is an every-day activity. ... With all the pressures of life, this is one of the many things that definitely need to be included in a sex-ed program. ... There is a superior way to teach sexual education in high school other than to pressure the students that abstinence is the only way. ...

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These youths may also lack important containments which counter Internal pushes (self control of restlessness, discontent, hostility, rebellion, mental conflict anxieties, and need for immediate gratification), External pressures (adverse living conditions such as relative deprivation, poverty, insecurity and minority status), and External pulls (involvement in deviant groups, mass media and pornography). ... There is no clear-cut profile that fits the adolescent sex offender, however some of the signs that may be warning are; loners who are separated from their peer group, they like to play...

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Some teens have a low sense of self-esteem that makes them vulnerable to peer pressure whereas others have an secure view of themselves and their ability to avoid negative consequences, which increases risk-taking behaviors. ...

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Going back to the earlier research mentioned about virginity pledges, researchers also found that those that pledged had the same rate of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) as their peers who had not pledged (Bearman, 2001). ... Supporters feel that young people are very vulnerable to peer pressures and easily swayed into wrong judgments so teaching them about sex, then, promotes experimentation. ...

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"So what will it be, Dan? Cheerios and Chaucer? Or an illegal party at your prep school pool with your high-society girlfriend and her nasty cohorts?" his friend Vanessa probes. Dan hollers to his father in the next room that he and Vanessa are heading out for the evening. As the two Brooklynites jo...

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The third is relationships and interpersonal skills; this goal aims at developing the interpersonal skills of young people such as communication, decision-making, assertiveness, and peer refusal skills. The final goal is responsibility; which focuses on helping young people to exercise their rights and responsibility to sexual relationships, this should include abstinence, how to resist pressure to sexual coercion and...

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Psychologists Linda Ames Nicolosi who believe in Sigmund Freud explain the pressure and tension people feel in their childhood, especially with an overly protective mother and a weak, defensive father, which can cause them to become homosexual people (Nicolosi). ... Men and women with 'unknown fathers' were significantly less likely to marry a person of the opposite sex than were their peers with known fathers" (Nicolosi). ...

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Religion plays an important role in abstinence and so does peer pressure. ... Many of these children are already scared of being judged for what they are in high school, so to add to that the pressure of a sexual education course that is directed solely to heterosexual couple is nerve-racking. ...

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Historically girls were expected to be non-sexual in childhood and adolescence, and sexual interest and especially sexual experience caused them to be devalued and tainted by there family and there peer groups alike. ... In sexually committed relationships, problems develop; boys usually want sex more than girls, and they pressure a girl to have sex when she doesn't want it. ...

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Date rape is one of the most brutal mentally and physically damaging experiences for a person to endure. In the typical example of date rape, a woman is the victim, with little to no interest in sex with her date, and an aggressive male is the perpetrator, who either force themselves on the female,...

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Banford, who represents the constriction and stifling pressure of society on March, becomes nothing but a burden, whereas the fox and Henry "represents a highly attractive and dangerous alternative to life with Banford." ... It is also in the night that Henry goes out with his shotgun (a phallic symbol in itself) and prowls, "peering through the darkness with dilated eyes that seemed to be able to grow black and full of sight in the dark, like a cat's" (The Fox, p. 38). ...

• Word Count: 2002
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate