Sexually transmitted disease

where individuals learn to protect themselves from many diseases and infectious diseases. One learns that health education helps many learn of the many sexual behaviors and what diseases are easy to contract. Health promotion is where individuals seek and gain better control of their lives and health to make it better. Sexual behavior and health promotion is the perfect opportunity for many to say how they will make better choices sexually to bring on better health for them and their partner.…

pedophiles. I find this extremely necessary to be taught by guardians, and in schools. Appalling to acknowledge this ghastly study result. Nonetheless, according to a 2003 National Institute of Justice report, 3 out of 4 adolescents who have been sexually assaulted were victimized by someone they knew well (The National Center of Victims of Crime,…

Immortality is a concept that invokes thoughts of gods or energy, but can this concept apply to humans as well? In 1986 Freddie Mercury’s song, “Who wants to live forever,” has an underlying theme of one living forever against their will. 35 years before this song, cells taken from Henrietta Lacks became immortal and left her family to face a similar unimaginable quandary. The ethical research issues that have derived from the procurement and cultivation of her cells, and her family’s current…

they currently have adequate access to preventable services must examined before making any political decision regarding women’s health. As many women struggle to afford or gain access to preventive services—especially those preventing sexually transmitted diseases like HIV or improving maternal health—they may feel frustrated at their individual inability to overcome barriers. Yet, these personal struggles with sexual health, something often stigmatized and culturally secretive, do not stand…

systems. Approximately one third of 9th graders have had sexual intercourse (Center for Disease control and Prevention, 2008). The risk of early sexual behavior can have a great effect on a child’s behavior through the course of their early life stages. Children who participate in early sexual behavior are more likely to have numerous sex partners which can and will lead to higher risks for sexually transmitted diseases and early pregnancies.…

will be devoted to condom wearing and teaching you to regard sexual relations as a primarily health issue”. I disagree with this statement. Sex education has been proven to help young people to delay sex, and to use contraception when they do become sexually active and it should be supported in every school. Preparing the youth, for changes, will make puberty a better experience, for growing up. There are far too many pregnancies and teens contracting STD’s. In May of 2014,…

concurrency and partner-reported behavior. Journal of Adolescent Health, 38(3), 179-185. Retrieved fromhttp://www.jahonline.org/article/S1054-139X(05)00054-6/pdf In this article, Lenoir, Borzekowski, Tschann and Ellen mention that sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) are more commonly found in adolescents. The writers propose that adolescents having more than one sex partner will increase the risk for acquiring STDs and HIV. Furthermore, the authors…

are to be the most sexually satisfied people in America. UCLA researchers Stuart Perlman and Paul Abrahamson found sexual satisfaction among married couples is enhanced by “absence of sexual anxiety” and the other reason is because they enjoy greater sexual freedom. In the society where sexual disease is higher among individual; monogamous married couples are free from most of the worries of out of wedlock sexuality such as fear of AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases, and fear of…

Literature Review About 50,000 people are infected with HIV each year, and one in four is thirteen to twenty four years old. Youth make up seven percent of the more than one million people in the US living with HIV. About 12,000 youth were infected with HIV in 2010 (HIV Among Youth in the US, 2012). HIV has become the sixth leading cause of death among the adolescent population (Romer et al., 1994). This is important given the steady growth in the estimated numbers of persons living with…

Since its publication, the typology in Gayle Rubin’s “Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality” (1984) has been useful for analyzing contemporary sexual concerns, as well as the potential subsequent moral and sex panics that follow. One such concern revolves around sexual education in public school systems. Since receiving federal backing in 1940, sexual education has been contested throughout the United States; in fact, over 70 years later, the country still lacks a…