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Sexuality

7. Sexuality. Sexual Attitudes and Behavior. Percentage of Youth Who Say They Have Had Sexual Intercourse at Various Ages. Fig. 7.2. Sexual Attitudes and Behavior. Sexual Scripts A stereotyped pattern of role prescriptions for how individuals should sexually behave.

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Sexuality

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  1. 7 Sexuality

  2. Sexual Attitudes and Behavior Percentage of Youth Who Say They Have Had Sexual Intercourse at Various Ages Fig. 7.2

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

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

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

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

  10. Adolescent Pregnancy Births to Married and Unmarried 15- to 19-Year-Old Girls from 1950 through 2000 Fig. 7.5

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

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

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

  14. 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

  15. 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.

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