News tagged with sex education
From virginity to Viagra
Americans will spend more than $17 billion on Valentine's Day, but far less on programs like sex education for adolescents. The editors of the new book, Sex for Life, From Virginity to Viagra, How Sexuality Changes Throughout ...
Feb 10, 2012 |
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Incoming college students more liberal on hot-button political, social issues, survey finds
(PhysOrg.com) -- First-year college students' political and social views shifted in a more liberal direction in 2011, according to the CIRP Freshman Survey, UCLA's annual survey of the nation's entering students at four-year ...
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Jan 26, 2012 |
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Abstinence-only education does not lead to abstinent behavior
States that prescribe abstinence-only sex education programs in public schools have significantly higher teenage pregnancy and birth rates than states with more comprehensive sex education programs, researchers from the University ...
Nov 30, 2011 |
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Focus on testing hurts students in high school health classes
High school health classes fail to help students refuse sexual advances or endorse safe sex habits when teachers focus primarily on testing knowledge, a new study reveals.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Nov 15, 2011 |
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80 percent of US boys use condoms the first time
A surprising 80 percent of teenage boys say they are using condoms the first time they have sex, a government survey found in a powerful sign that decades of efforts to change young people's sexual behavior ...
Oct 12, 2011 |
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Sex-segregated schooling ineffective and increases gender stereotyping, experts warn
Sex-segregated schooling is not superior to coeducational schooling and carries the risk of exaggerating sexism and gender stereotyping, according to a new report co-authored by a University of Texas at Austin psychologist.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 05, 2011 |
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Parents misled by advocates of single-sex education
There is no scientific basis for teaching boys and girls separately, according to Lise Eliot from The Chicago Medical School. Her review reveals fundamental flaws in the arguments put forward by proponents of single-sex schools ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Aug 18, 2011 |
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Learning lessons from an HIV cure
For doctors confronting the AIDS epidemic, past ambitions always boiled down to two main goals: prevention, or finding ways to protect people not yet exposed to HIV, through vaccines, safe sex education or other means; and ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Jun 17, 2011 |
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True love may wait -- but waiting won't make you a safer lover later on
Whether sex education focuses only on abstinence or teaches students about contraception and other topics as well, it all shares one main message: Wait. In abstinence-only, students are exhorted to wait for sex until they're ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
May 17, 2011 |
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Black churches teach kids about safe sex, disease prevention
When 10th-grader Quintin Scott learned that only physicians could diagnose AIDS, he wasn't in sex education class and he wasn't overhearing locker room talk: Scott was in church.
Apr 28, 2011 |
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British scouts vow to 'be prepared' with sex ed classes
British scouts are giving their age-old motto "be prepared" a new twist with the launch Tuesday of sex education classes in a bid to tackle the country's high rates of sexually transmitted diseases.
Apr 05, 2011 |
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Welsh girls to get morning-after pill for free
(AP) -- Women and girls as young as 13 in Wales can get the morning-after pill free without a prescription from pharmacies, beginning Friday.
Apr 01, 2011 |
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Parents fear sex advice will fall on deaf ears
Kids learn a great deal about sexuality from friends and from the media, but parents and teens agree: Parents should be the most important providers of information about sex and sexuality.
Jan 07, 2011 |
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Research into adolescent sexual habits reveals surprising findings
Females are more likely to have an unprotected first sexual encounter than their male counterparts.
Nov 08, 2010 |
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New survey on sex in US, biggest since 1994
(AP) -- The male-female orgasm gap. The sex lives of 14-year-olds. An intriguing breakdown of condom usage rates, by age and ethnicity, with teens emerging as more safe-sex-conscious than boomers.
Oct 04, 2010 |
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