Adolescent sexuality

Chlamydia: The most common sexual transmitted disease The purpose of this paper is to discuss the literature review pertinent to chlamydia trachomatis as the most common sexual transmitted disease-STD among adolescents; therefore, it is a disease all adolescent and young adult should be educated about to decrease incidence and impact of infertility especially among young women (Buttaro, Trybulski, Bailey, & Sandberg-Cook, 2013). Risk factors and severity of chlamydia determine the consequences…

increasingly pervasive presence of sexuality in one form or another prevalent all over popular culture and particularly advertising today. This practice, and the central importance sexuality has been given in everyday expressions of popular culture, has become quite embedded in the public life, and is having some important effects on the social development of people, especially young people. This paper will explore the current state of the depictions of sexuality and eroticism in the modern-day…

Parents are an important source of information about sex for children and adolescents (CDC Parents matter page…). Parents not only contribute to their children’s knowledge base, but also have other responsibilities for the health of their child. Giving children accurate information about sex may allow more reality over fantasy as children develop sexual scripts (DeLamater, 1981). Choosing when to talk about sex, and what to talk about, can be a daunting task for many parents. Despite the…

Century Trobriand Island Culture The Trobriand Islanders are a tribal scale society with a rich culture. Sexuality is widely renowned as an important aspect to their culture as it is something that is incorporated into everyday life from a very young age. This essay will explore the importance of sexual agency plays during childhood and adolescents and will then go on to explore how sexuality permeates everyday life. It will explain the influence that sex has on residence patterns and how living…

examples of objectification in songs, and then listing the effects of the sexual objectification and providing evidence through experiment results. The structure of the argument is highly effective in conveying the effect of objectification on adolescents, as it first provides background information on the sexual objectification of women, gives concrete examples, and finally proves their hypotheses on the effects to be true…

ever-changing culture, life as an adolescent is more complicated and confusing than it was for past generations. One of the biggest changes that has occurred is how openly our culture talks about sex. It is virtually everywhere spanning from books, to ads, to T.V., and to music, along with other countless sources. The effect this is having on adolescents is quite obvious, with one million pregnancies resulting in teen mothers and three million cases of STD’s effecting adolescents, results as of…

In this section, a review of literature highlights the emerging adult’s attitudes, beliefs, and perceptions about sex and sexuality. Rather than oversimplifying a diverse generation cohort into a homogeneous group, the aim here is to give a deeper understanding of how the emerging young adults (Millennials) ages 18-29 years are shaping the culture with new sexual scripts. Let me begin first by explaining “sexual script”. The term “sexual scripts”, was introduced in the 1970s by John Gagnon and…

Adolescents who experienced childhood sexual abuse are likely to experience psychological trauma. Several studies have confirmed that there is a relationship between CSA and experiencing psychological trauma, also known as psychological injury. Psychological injury includes “major depressive disorder, dysthymia, generalized anxiety disorder, and phobic disorders, which may manifest themselves in the short-term and/or become chronic” (Amado et al., 2015, p. 50). Ivanov, Platonova, and…

The Bloody Mary ritual is a fairly modern occurrence, becoming popular in the 1960s and 1970s (Langlois, 1978), when the sexual liberation movement was often detrimental to adolescent girls who were sought after by adult men, making the idea of puberty both exciting and frightening, just as the ritual itself is. Dundes (2002) points out another connection with virginity in the title character of the legend, Mary, stating that…

Our sexuality is a part of who we are, just as our religion, culture, beliefs, traditions, and ethnicity all add up to make us who we are so does our sexuality. Without our sexuality we would be missing a part of us. So if our sexuality is an important aspect of what makes us who we are why do our culture and or religion taboo this part of us? When our Founding Father of psychology, Sigmund Freud introduced his psychosexual developmental stages and talked about our sexual drives he was rejected…