HIV is taking its toll in this country as it continues to spread, the underlining cause of this is a lack of strong education in dealing with it. This in turn puts into action a movement to make the next generation youth free of HIV, Eliminate the stereotypes associated with HIV, There must be a firm understanding of what infected children go through and the argument between condoms and abstinence being the best choice against the disease must be discussed thoroughly HIV/AIDs has spread and…
unimaginable. There is an average of 240 rapes per day and 32,000 pregnancies each year reported from victims. The human capacity of love and physical intimacy can in some cases become so corrupt as to produce it’s opposite side in forms of rape, sexual abuse, and sexual harassment, but while reading this chapter it was still hard to truly understand how there are so many accounts of rape each day. I always thought of rape as some disturbed stranger overpowering or threatening…
Sexuality is socially constructed due to society standards and the erotic marketplace. The erotic marketplace is the way that people are structured and organized by their perceived sexual desirability (Wade, pg. 225). What this means is how society sees a person based on how sexy desired they are compared to others. The erotic marketplace was created by society based on what people find desirable. This stems from magazines and articles that promote things such as the sexist man or women of the…
have been applying in our culture for numerous hundreds of years. In 1769, William Blackstone, who is the leading 18th century power on the common law in both England and the colonies, defined common-law rape as the carnal knowing of a woman (sexual intercourse) compulsorily and against her desire. Rape is second only to murder in being regarded by law and community as the most dangerous offense. This is not just right nowadays. Since colonial times until 1977, when the United States Supreme…
from the bacteria Treponema pallidum, is a sexually transmitted infection that largely spreads through sexual contact. Syphilis derives when a person comes in contact with painless lesions on the genitals, mouth, or rectum of an infected person. Since the initial recording of Syphilis in 1494, the disease outbreak has experienced fluctuations in numbers between genders, ethnicities, and sexual orientations throughout the decades. According to a report discharged by the Centers for Disease…
Some people make jokes, music, movies, and cartoons to lessen the seriousness of sexual violence, which has caused the public to have different views about victims. Those beliefs have created misunderstandings on why some men raped some women. An example of this misunderstanding is how some people believe that some women desire sexual intercourse because of how indecent they acted or how inappropriate they dressed. Rape culture does not benefit the victims, but…
noteworthy, is the statistics of HIV/AIDs as it relates sub-populations such as sexual orientation, which gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (MSM) lead with 12% increase in a 2010 study conducted by the CDC. Additionally…
Case Summary Savannah is a 16-year-old healthy student female who came with her mother for a routine pre-participation softball sports exam. The visit is to promote and establish professional interaction between adolescent patient and healthcare provider. The immunizations are up-to-date and an interview conducted. Unfortunately, during the assessment was revealed that Savannah is engaging in unprotected sex. Therefore, counseling for birth control was given, and Savannah scheduled to return…
Teenage Pregnancy in the United States The United States, although it has had a recent decline, has highest rates of teen pregnancy in the developed world. About 34% of teens get pregnant at least once before they are 20 years old, totaling more than 820,000 teen pregnancies per year (capefearteen, 2015). 82% of teen pregnancies are unplanned, and more than a quarter of those unplanned pregnancies end in abortion (guttmacher, 2014). Teen pregnancy is a huge issue, as it negatively affects not…
become pregnant, why should she be required to go through with something she did not want to happen? Well of course this is a compelling argument when phrased like this; however, the discussion of the difference between opening a window and having intercourse is necessary. When the women opened the window did she open it so that someone could jump in? We need to know the main purpose of opening a window? Well, if I take the example given by Miss Thomson as fact; the main purpose of an open…