Condom

Abortion is a controversial issue due to the division of opinions on what is right and wrong. To help persuade undecided opinions, the terms pro-choice and pro-life have been coined. Pro-choice supporters fight for a woman’s freedom to decide, while pro-life supporters fight for the rights of the fetus. Those who support abortions do not take into consideration the impact it has. Primarily, having an abortion should be considered as murder since a life is ended. Also, the act of an abortion…

using implant, injection, or shot. Other terminology includes, the pill, patch, or ring. The fourth method stated is the barrier method. This method is devices that put physical barriers between egg and sperm. For example, diaphragms, male condoms, female condoms, and spermicides. The final method of contraception is fertility awareness-based methods. This method mainly includes various ways of gauging times for periodic abstinence-the calendar method, the BBT method, the cervical method. They…

In tenth grade, I had two days of sexual education in my health class. They consisted of our teacher telling us how if you had sex before you were married, you would contract an STD or get pregnant. He said this as an absolute; there was no chance that these things wouldn’t happen to you. He then showed us slides of what different sexually transmitted diseases looked like, and that was the extent of my public school sexual education. This is a huge problem because at some point everyone has to…

Men can wear condoms, which are very effective, but many men come up with excuses for why condoms do not work for them, as if a hormonal birth control method does not affect women in any way. In order to solve this gap in responsibility, women should take control of the sexual interaction by controlling when…

Where does one first learn about sex? Is it at home? Maybe at the playground from a friend? Doctor? Church? School? Many can agree they have received some basic information but not everything to make informed decisions on one’s health. “Forty seven percent of all teens are sexually active in the United States of America,” according to SIECUS (SIECUS Oct.2009) but do they have the correct information needed to make the right choices? With nearly half of all teenagers engaging in some type of…

Detrimental is and understatement of how big of an issue teenage pregnancy is in society. Teenagers are uneducated and disregard the consequences of unprotected sex. This leads to the Number of teenage girls getting pregnant between the ages of 15-18. Respect, educated and necessities provided are all ways to encourage and help teenagers be active in safe sex. Respect is a seven letter word that needs to be established in all aspects of everyone's life. Young women need to respect…

The things that were taught was how to put a condom on, birth control, and sexual transmitted diseases. Three individuals taught them from a clinic called, c-capp. Students were not divided by gender, we were all together, Boys and girls were assigned to put a condom on a penis model. We also learned about the anatomy of the males and females. It was both abstinence and comprehensive sex. The teachers were…

Imagine having to jump through various hoops just to secure any form of contraception that will help you not get pregnant without the intention. For decades, women have been doing just that in order to get something that should be an automatic right. Allowing birth control to be made easier to access would both decrease the rates of unintended pregnancy as well as lower teenage pregnancy rates around the nation. Back in 1933, during the early stages of birth control this exact issue was being…

for victims to enter prostitution. With immense vulnerabilities, child sex workers can endanger themselves to physical, verbal violence and sexual assaults from pimps or customers. Furthermore, they are usually defenseless in negotiating the use of condom during intercourses (Willis and Levy 2002). Thus, not only are child sex workers at risk for infectious transmittable diseases such as STD, HIV, uterine infection but also is their community. Being susceptible to chronic diseases would limit…

More than fifty percent of teens have sex during those years (CDC 1). “Forty-one percent of those [teens] did not use a condom the last time they had sex” (CDC 1). These statistics are enough to make parents question what their teens are learning. They also make parents wonder why they are not receiving the proper education on safe sex. Well, this is because most schools…