Beyond Abstinence and Risk: A New Paradigm for Adolescent Sexual Health
Reads0
Chats0
TLDR
The two paradigms of abstinence-onlyuntil-marriage and sex-as-risk give only limited tools to conceptualize and promote positive adolescent sexual development and relationships and fail to recognize the socioeconomic deprivations that are at the root of many negative sexual health outcomes and must be addressed to foster healthy development.About:
This article is published in Womens Health Issues.The article was published on 2011-05-01 and is currently open access. It has received 75 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Sexual abstinence & Abstinence.read more
Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Invited Commentary: Broadening the Evidence for Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health and Education in the United States
Amy T. Schalet,John S. Santelli,Stephen T. Russell,Carolyn Tucker Halpern,Sarah A. Miller,Sarah S. Pickering,Shoshana K. Goldberg,Jennifer M. Hoenig +7 more
TL;DR: Recommendations to improve US sexual health education and to strengthen the translation of science into programs and policy are provided.
Journal ArticleDOI
Three Decades of Research: The Case for Comprehensive Sex Education.
TL;DR: Substantial evidence supports sex education beginning in elementary school, that is scaffolded and of longer duration, as well as LGBTQ-inclusive education across the school curriculum and a social justice approach to healthy sexuality.
Journal ArticleDOI
‘the revolution will be led by a 12-year-old girl’: girl power and global biopolitics
Ofra Koffman,Rosalind Gill +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a poststructuralist, postcolonial and feminist interrogation of the "girl effect" is presented, focusing on the way in which the Girl Effect discourse articulates notions of girlhood, empowerment, development and the Global North/South divide.
Journal ArticleDOI
A rights-based approach to sexuality education: conceptualization, clarification and challenges.
TL;DR: While questions remain to be answered regarding the implementation and impact of rights-based sexuality education, the proposed conceptual definition suggests multiple avenues for advocates, researchers, program developers and funders to enhance adolescent sexual health.
References
More filters
MonographDOI
Dilemmas of desire : teenage girls talk about sexuality
TL;DR: Tolman's "Dilemmas of Desire" as discussed by the authors offers an intimate and often disturbing, sometimes inspiring, picture of how teenage girls experience, understand and respond to their sexual feelings and of how society mediates, shapes and distorts this experience.
Teenagers in the United States: sexual activity, contraceptive use, and childbearing, 2002
TL;DR: Hispanic teens are most likely to have a birth before age 20 and non-Hispanic whites are least likely, with non- Hispanic black teens in the middle, and Teenagers showed increases in the use of contraceptives.
Journal ArticleDOI
Abstinence and abstinence-only education: a review of U.S. policies and programs.
John S. Santelli,Mary A. Ott,Maureen E. Lyon,Jennifer Rogers,Daniel Summers,Rebecca Schleifer +5 more
TL;DR: It is believed that abstinence-only education programs, as defined by federal funding requirements, are morally problematic, by withholding information and promoting questionable and inaccurate opinions.
Journal ArticleDOI
Masculinity Ideology: Its Impact on Adolescent Males' Heterosexual Relationships
TL;DR: This article found that those with a more traditional conception of manhood viewed relationships between men and women as more adversarial viewed condoms negatively as inhibiting male pleasure and used condoms less consistently with their current sexual partner regardless of her request that they be used than their counterparts with less traditional views of masculinity.
Journal ArticleDOI
Teenage partners' communication about sexual risk and condom use: the importance of parent-teenager discussions.
TL;DR: Parent-teenager discussions about sexuality and sexual risk were associated with an increased likelihood of teenager-partner discussions about sexual risk and of teenagers' condom use, but only if parents were open, skilled and comfortable in having those discussions.
Related Papers (5)
Sexuality Education and Desire: Still Missing after All These Years.
Michelle Fine,Sara I. McClelland +1 more