Abstinence programs have been a hot discussion topic lately. The new Obama administration has recently decided to cut the budget on programs that are abstinence-only and instead move to more comprehensive sex education courses that offer discussion on contraceptives, sexually transmitted diseases and the like. Conservatives and liberals on the subject have had many a [...]
Bristol Palin About-Faces on Abstinence
May 15th, 2009 · No Comments
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Women and HIV Transmission
January 17th, 2009 · No Comments
HIV scientists and researchers were once under the notion that women had an almost protective barrier against the virus in their vaginal tracts. They believed that the virus could not penetrate the lining of the vaginal tissue during a normal sexual encounter. However, years of this theory went down the drain when new research emerged [...]
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Teen Use of Contraceptives During Sex May Be on the Decline
May 24th, 2008 · No Comments
Trends in the use of contraceptives in teens are not quite going in the direction that health experts would like. Recently, a survey was taken of teenagers in New Hampshire in order to find out more about their behaviors. Sex and the use of contraceptives was not the only subject focused upon by the survey, [...]
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