Sexual abstinence

Thousands of people protested all throughout the country; the civil society was enraged at the prospect of the approval of law 61, which intended to make a sexual education curriculum compulsory to all Panamanian students. What is the reason behind this law? Basically, to decrease the rate of teenage pregnancies, STDs, and defend a somewhat progressive look on polemic matters as gender identity and gender roles. This was the spark that ignited and kept these protests on for a long time. In…

teenage pregnancy. Parents can talk to their child about abstinence, condoms, and a well-known talk called "The birds and the bees”, which is generally the event in most children 's lives in which the parents explain what sexual relationships are. If parents know their kids are engaging in premarital sex, they can encourage their children to use protection. Some teens think it is uncomfortable to talk to parents about urges about engaging in sexual intercourse. Also, the behaviors of teenagers…

The Right to Birth Control To give birth whenever you choose to or to let motherhood come naturally? This question has been a sensitive topic since the introduction of birth control to women. Birth control has been around for many years, constantly changing and improving. Everyone has a different opinion on it and its use. Many believe that birth control does more harm than it does good. Though many do not agree, the access to birth control is highly important. We will see this through the…

easily avoided. The Texas education system seems to think that the method of strictly teaching abstinence is effective, however how can it possibly be effective if nearly an 8th of the nations teen pregnancies are coming from Texas? If Texas diverged from the traditional “moral” based sexual education program and began to teach contraceptives, like other innovative states have done, there would likely…

Paraphilia is a pattern of sexual attraction/behavior that deviates from the social and cultural norms. To have a paraphilic disorder, their unusual sexual interest needs to cause them distress or victimizes others for longer than six months. How does one develop a paraphilia? There are some certain neurotransmitters and hormones that are linked to paraphilic interests. It could also develop from people having poor interpersonal skills. Some people may have learned their paraphilia from…

they should have been. We can determine from the laws and policies of the time, that children were considered ‘adult’ from a very young age. Given this fact they might also assume that they were old enough to give consent to something as adult as sexual interactions. Today’s child employment laws are much different. A child cannot be employed under the age of 13 with the exception of television, theatre or modelling work and for those areas of employment they’ll need a license (Child…

would provide exclusivity within health courses in middle and high schools. Comprehensive education would be efficient because it teaches all aspects of contraception, medication, treatments, abstinence and addresses the diversity of the student body by including students who have different gender and sexual identities. By addressing the universality of students and establishing a more holistic approach towards sex, it provides teenagers with accurate and applicable information pertaining to…

When it come to sexual intimacy, the Church teaches that people should wait until marriage. It teaches that sexual intercourse is for marriage only, for man and wife to completely be one with each other. That means no sex with anyone, no matter how in love you are or how long you've been in a relationship, before you get married. But why? Whats the point of abstinence until marriage? What do we get out of it? One of the benefits of waiting to have sex until marriage is that it keeps God at the…

they are either lesbian, gay, bisexual, or have had sexual experiences with individuals of the same sex. As a minority population in schools across the country, LGBTQ youth commonly experience high rates of discrimination and harassment, yet are often not protected under school policy. And even though most parents favor teaching about sexual orientation in schools, most sexuality education programs do not cover this topic at all, and abstinence-only-until-marriage programs (AOUM) only contribute…

teaching. When it comes to sex education, the government has decided that abstinence-only lessons are the most effective. This is meant to keep high schoolers from engaging in sexual activity at all, and fails to acknowledge that although they are being told not to, high school students are still having sex. Santinelli and his colleagues explain that “although abstinence is theoretically fully effective, in actual practice abstinence often fails to protect against pregnancy and STIs.” But…