Sexuality

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• Sexuality

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Sexual Attitudes and Behavior

• Percentage of Youth Who Say They Have Had Sexual
  Intercourse at Various Ages

Fig. 7.2
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Sexual Attitudes and Behavior

• Sexual Scripts
• A stereotyped pattern of role prescriptions for
  how individuals should sexually behave.
• Females and males have been socialized to follow
  different sexual scripts.
• Risk Factors For Sexual Problems

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Sexual Minority Attitudes and Behavior

• Gay or Lesbian Identity and Disclosure
• Parents are seldom the first person told
• Mothers are more likely than fathers to know
• A friend is likely to be the first person told
• Peer Relations
• Discrimination and Bias

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Sexual Attitudes and Behavior

• Self-Stimulation
• Part of the sexual activity of virtually all
  adolescents and one of their most frequent sexual
  outlets
• Contraceptive Use
• Adolescents are increasing their use of
  contraceptives, but large numbers still do not
  use them

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Adolescent Sexual Problems

• Incidence of Adolescent Pregnancy
• Why are U.S. adolescent pregnancy rates so high?
• Childbearing regarded as adult activity in Europe
  and Canada.
• Unclear messages about sexuality
• Lack of family planning services

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Adolescent Pregnancy

• US Adolescent Pregnancy Rates Are Decreasing
• Fear of STDs
• School/community health classes
• Abortion

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Adolescent Pregnancy

• Consequences of Adolescent Pregnancy
• Adolescent mothers often drop out of school
• We are children having children
• 17 year old mother

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Adolescent Pregnancy

• Cognitive Factors
• Adolescents may see themselves as omnipotent and
  indestructible
• Adolescents as Parents
• Lack of prenatal care
• Lack parenting skills
• Lower Incomes

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Adolescent Pregnancy

• Births to Married and Unmarried 15- to
  19-Year-Old Girls from 1950 through 2000

Fig. 7.5
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Adolescent Pregnancy

• Reducing Adolescent Pregnancy
• Sex Education and Family Planning
• Access to contraceptives
• Life Options Approach
• Broad Community Involvement

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Forcible Sexual Behavior and Sexual Harassment

• Forcible Sexual Behavior
• Rape
• Acquaintance Rape
• Sexual Harassment
• Quid Pro Quo
• Hostile Environment

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Forcible Sexual Behavior and Sexual Harassment
Completed Rape and Attempted Rape of College
Women According to Victim-Offender Relationship
Fig. 7.7
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Sexual Literacy

• Sources of Sex Information
• I learned about sex in the streets. There, and
  from Playboy and other sex magazines.
• - 14-year-old boy

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Sex Education in the Schools

• Some topics are taught earlier.
• More educators promote abstinence.
• Percentage or teachers who support teaching about
  birth control, abortion, and sexual orientation
  declined.