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| | Unsafe sexual practices are common, say US studies -- Josefson 327 (7405): 10 -- BMJ |
 | | Unsafe sexual practices are common in people infected with HIV and in those at high risk of infection, warned two US epidemiological studies published this week in the American Journal of Public Health. | | | Unsafe sexual practices are common, say US studies | | | Unsafe sexual practices are common, say US studies -- Josefson 327 (7405): 10 -- BMJ |
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http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/327/7405/10-d
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| | Sexual relations among young people in developing countries: evidence from WHO case studies |
| | The paper focuses in particular on unsafe sexual practices, discussing their causes (misinformation, lack of decision-making power, coercion) and what can be done to address them. | | | The third section focuses on the extent to which youth are fully informed of healthy sexual practice, and their sources of information, and then goes on to highlight the enormous gender imbalances that persist in sexual attitudes and decision-making among youth. | | | Awareness of safe sex practices seems to be superficial, and misinformation regarding the risks and consequences of unsafe sex is widespread. |
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http://www.eldis.org/static/DOC15857.htm
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| | How to recognize the signs of sexual addiction |
| | Sexually explicit material may have been available, or sexual comments (eg, a father remarking on his daughter's anatomy) were made repeatedly. | | | Unlike the goal in treatment of chemical dependency, which is abstinence from use of all psychoactive substances, the therapeutic goal in sexual addiction is abstinence only from compulsive sexual behavior with adaptation of healthy sexuality. | | | Even though sexual addiction is not currently recognized in the DSM-III-R, application of its criteria for chemical dependency as adapted for sexual behaviors and a score of 13 or more on this test suggest the diagnosis. |
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http://www.jenniferschneider.com/articles/recognize.html
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| | AEGiS-08IAC: Determining prostitutes' unsafe sexual practices. |
| | CONCLUSIONS: Questionnaires which ask detailed questions about unsafe practices between prostitutes and their clients but not about unsafe sexual practices between prostitutes and lovers may not obtain valid data needed for prevention programs. | | | OBJECTIVES: To compare the sexual behaviour questions asked on three different questionnaires assessing prostitutes' unsafe sexual practices. | | | However, the most detailed questionnaire was able to detect a number of reported unsafe sexual practices with short-term and long-term partners that would not have been reported using either or both of the other two questionnaires. |
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http://www.aegis.com/conferences/iac/1992/PuC8106.html
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| | A History of Sexual Abuse Elevates the Massachusetts Teenagers' Risk of Engaging in Unsafe Sexual Practices |
| | The researchers used logistic regression analyses to determine the relationship between sexual risk and sexual abuse, controlling for demographic variables found in chi-square analyses to be significantly associated with sexual risk (age, grade, and race or ethnicity). | | | To assess the association between sexual abuse and risky sexual behavior among adolescents, researchers analyzed data from the 1997 Massachusetts Youth Risk Behavior Survey. | | | To further assess the effects of a history of sexual abuse on sexual risk behaviors, the authors conducted stepwise logistic regression analyses (controlling for selected demographic characteristics and other factors associated with these risk behaviors). |
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http://www.agi-usa.org/pubs/journals/3304401.html
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| | Sexual Practices, Risk Perception and Knowledge of Sexually Transmitted Disease Risk Among Lesbian and Bisexual Women |
| | For penetrative sexual practices, discussions explored perceived extent of practice, whether penetration is vaginal or anal, objects used, extent of sharing when objects are used, cleaning practices, and use of lubricants and protective barriers. | | | An intervention aimed at reducing the sexual transfer of vaginal fluid as a means of reducing the recurrence of bacterial vaginosis and STD transmission in general could emphasize one or more protective strategies, depending on what sexual practices participants engage in. | | | The objectives of the discussions were to identify specific sexual practices women engage in with other women, determine what protective behaviors these women would find most acceptable and be most likely to practice, and assess knowledge of bacterial vaginosis. |
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http://www.agi-usa.org/pubs/journals/3700605.html
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| | Conversion Therapy Revisited: Parameters And Rationale For Ethical Care |
| | The fact that such sexual behavior is on the upswing in gay-tolerant cities such as San Francisco suggests that unsafe sexual practices cannot be completely interpreted as an effect of social homophobia. | | | Moreover, it is clear that only clients who are dissatisfied with their sexual orientation and who freely and actively seek to change their orientation should be treated. | | | The recent research on sexual orientation and conversion therapy, suggesting complex origins and limited treatment efficacy, certainly needs to be acknowledged in any process of informed consent. |
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http://www.narth.com/docs/conversiontherapy.html
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| | Sexual Healing - Harvard Independent - News |
| | Regardless of how informed a student claims to be, PCC recognizes the realities of sexual health and knows that no one is immune from unsafe sexual practices. | | | The organizations, which focus on different aspects of sexual life at college, consist of trained students who offer support and advice to their peers about issues of sex, sexuality, sexual orientation, and consequences of sexual activity. | | | The Center understands the need for a variety of sexual health-related resources and the availability of those resources in the college environment, particularly because the health choices that students make during these critical years of their lives can affect their performance in college or further down the road. |
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http://www.harvardindependent.com/news/2004/05/06/News/Sexual.Healing-679544.shtml
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| | WebHealthCentre.com - Sexual Medicine |
| | Unsafe sexual practices carry a high risk of contracting sexually transmitted diseases. | | | While talking about adolescent sexuality and its associated concerns, we have to distinguish between those arising out of innate biological drives and those that arise out of a conflict between the demands of these drives and their surrounding psychosocial forces. | | | While ones sexual drive is the strongest between the mid-teens and the early twenties, the sexual expression is not governed by ones biological make up. |
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http://www.webhealthcentre.com/general/sm_adolos.htm
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| | Is Unsafe Sexual Behavior Increasing Among HIV Positive Individuals? |
| | Participants in the Swiss HIV Cohort Study were asked about their sexual practices every 6 months for 3 years during regular follow-up of the cohort beginning on 1 April 2000. | | | In general, the prevalence of unsafe sexual behavior was much lower in individuals in the SHCS compared with other studies of HIV-positive and HIV-negative individuals. | | | Several factors were found to be associated with unsafe sexual behavior. |
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http://www.hivandhepatitis.com/recent/transmission/081104_d.html
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| | Gender Stereotypes Compromise Sexual Health |
| | These changes often expose youth to threats to sexual health for which they are unprepared, but may help free them to consider new ways of relating to one another and different patterns of sexual behavior. | | | Gender has such a powerful influence on sexual behavior that some experts believe challenging traditional views of masculinity and femininity is essential to promoting sexual health. | | | This openness is important because the patterns of sexual and reproductive behavior young people adopt during adolescence will have long-lasting effects on their future health and well-being. |
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http://www.reproline.jhu.edu/english/6read/6issues/6network/v21-4/nt2142.htm
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| | College Men's Health: An Overview and a Call to Action |
| | Although researchers have long examined relationships between biologic sex and health practices, very few attempts have been made to move beyond the use of biologic sex as an independent or control variable and to explain what it is about gender, exactly, that influences health. | | | Further research is needed to determine how race, socioeconomic status, and sexual orientation influence the health of college men, and how their risks compare to those of noncollege samples. | | | Sexual behavior among high school students-United States, 1990. |
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http://www.menshealth.org/code/download.html
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| | The Body: Editorial |
| | Although such data is primarily anecdotal and there has always been a high incidence of unsafe sexual encounters by HIV-positive men, the tarot cards or in this case, the tarot posters on sexual behavior in Geneva could foretell a new pestilence. | | | Their market researchers didn't anticipate such a substantial market of young men, many of whom were fond of using recreational drugs including inhaled nitrates with their Viagra to enhance their sexual activity, a combination that has since proved lethal for some. | | | Anecdotally, there appears to be reluctance by some and possibly many physicians, to monitor their patients' sexual activities when such activities may have harmful consequences to the patient, their sexual partner(s), and the public health. |
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http://www.thebody.com/iapac/edit998.html
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| | Attitudes Toward HIV Treatments Influence Unsafe Sexual and Injection Practices Among Injecting Drug Users |
| | The current study assesses attitudes of injection drug users toward HIV infection, HIV treatments and HIV-related risk behaviors and their association with risky sexual and injection practices, and whether HAART has altered HIV risk perceptions. | | | Attitudes Toward HIV Treatments Influence Unsafe Sexual and Injection Practices Among Injecting Drug Users | | | The investigators found that almost two-thirds of sexually active study participants had unprotected sex, and almost half of those injecting drugs shared needles. |
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http://www.waifaction.org/pages/s.0006/t.1194.html
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| | Adverse Sexual and Psychological Effects of Male Infant Circumcision |
| | Circumcised partners more often resorted to unsafe sexual practices; they were significantly more likely to engage in anal intercourse (p <.05), and significantly more reluctant to use condoms (p <.05). | | | Summary.--A survey of the 35 female and 42 gay sexual partners of circumcised and genitally intact men, and a separate survey of 53 circumcised and genitally intact men, and a separate survey of 30 genitally intact men themselves indicated that circumcised men experienced significantly reduced sexual sensation along with associated long-lasting negative emotional consequences. | | | Many men are so unhappy with being circumcised that they have even resorted to foreskin restoration methods in order to restore at least some of the sexual sensitivity lost to circumcision and as a mechanism to promote psychological healing (2, 5, O'Hara and O'Hara, 2001, Sex as nature intended it. |
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http://www.cirp.org/library/psych/boyle5
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| | cmf.org.uk - CMF File 20 (2003) - Homosexuality (CMF Files, CMF Files) - information on: Sexuality, Abstinence, Homosexuality, Masturbation, Pornography, Sex, Sexual, Teenagers and Sex, Transsexuality and Virginity |
| | The authors noted that the observed relationship between sexuality and religiousity, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status provided further evidence of social influences on percieved sexual identity. | | | But extrapolating this to humans is not simple, because unlike the reflex driven behaviour of rodents, human sexual behaviour is influenced by complex conscious decision-making. | | | The usual pattern, however, is that sexual orientation will have a major bearing on sexual expression. |
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http://www.cmf.org.uk/cmffiles/number20.htm
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| | The Communication Initiative - Thinking - Unsafe Sexual Behaviors Among Young Women and Men in South Africa |
| | It reduces the odds of her practicing secondary abstinence, of having used condoms at her last sexual encounter, and having communicated with her most recent sexual partner about condom use and HIV prevention. | | | Using household survey data collected in 2001, her study investigated how gender, relative socioeconomic status, and orphanhood influence the sexual behaviors of young women and men aged 1424 years in the countrys KwaZulu-Natal Province. | | | Hallmans study investigated how gender, relative socioeconomic status, and orphanhood influence the sexual behaviors of young women and men aged 14-24 years in the country's KwaZulu-Natal Province. |
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http://www.comminit.com/strategicthinking/st2005/thinking-954.html
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| | Methamphetamine Abuse Drug Rehab Methamphetamine Drug Addiction Treatment Centers |
| | Drug use can be eliminated and drug-related risk behaviors, such as needle-sharing and unsafe sexual practices, can be reduced significantly thus decreasing the risk of exposure. | | | The combination of injection and sexual risks may result in HIV becoming a greater problem among methamphetamine abusers than among opiate and other drug abusers, something that already seems to be occurring in California. | | | However, long-term methamphetamine use may be associated with decreased sexual functioning, at least in men. |
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http://www.drug-rehabs.com/methamphetamine-effects.htm
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| | Editorial: The AIDS 'plot' / Baseless fears shouldn't discourage safe practices |
| | The refusal to use condoms and clean needles or to alter unsafe sexual practices has made blacks all over the world disproportionately vulnerable to the disease. | | | Irrational beliefs about the origin of AIDS are affecting black behavior when it comes to sensible preventive practices. | | | When fatalism becomes an urban consensus, the result is a compound tragedy. |
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http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05032/450687.stm
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| | Risk perceptions and unsafe sexual practices among adolescents in West Africa |
| | Specifically, the paper will provide pertinent information on the types of situation that young people face that could lead to unsafe sexual behavior, how they handle such situations, and the influence of peers, parents and other adults on decisions to engage in, or abstain from, sex. | | | The proposed paper will present the results of a multi-method research that employed the narrative methodological approach, appreciative inquiry and a sample survey to determine the factors influencing adolescent risk perception and sexual behaviors in Togo and Cameroon. | | | Unprotected sexual relations (either premarital or within marriage) are taking place at early ages. |
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http://apha.confex.com/apha/129am/techprogram/paper_22552.htm
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| | Let's Talk About Addictions - Aboriginal Youth Network Health Centre |
| | Self-abusive behaviours can take a variety of forms - a readiness to take unsafe physical risks (e.g., reckless driving, unsafe sexual practices, etc.), alcohol or drug addictions or active self-mutilation are some of the more common ones. | | | Like other addictions, sexual addictions are usually a misguided attempt on the part of the [sexually abused] survivor to self-medicate. | | | [Male] survivors [of sexual abuse] exhibit substance addictions and their relationship to alcohol, drugs or food can consume much of their mental and emotional energy". |
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http://www.ayn.ca/health/en/addictions
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| | Media |
| | Furthermore researchers concluded that some pledgers engaged in alternative sexual behaviors in order to preserve their virginity. | | | "The research found that "pledgers" have the same rate of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) as their peers who had not pledged. | | | It is time for lawmakers to stop pushing their ideological agenda at the expense of young people and fund comprehensive and medically accurate sexuality education programs that work," Smith continued. |
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http://www.siecus.org/media/press/press0094.html
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| | SF AIDS Fdn: CDC Report Cites Increase in Unsafe Sexual Behavior |
| | -- A study issued today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) citing a 30% increase in unprotected sexual practices among gay men in San Francisco provides proof of the serious danger engendered by growing complacency about HIV and a misguided sense that the AIDS epidemic is over. | | | Programs such as Gay Life, which promotes gay men’s sexual health and is designed on the basis of studies conducted by the Center for AIDS Prevention Studies at the University of California at San Francisco, are addressing the complexities uncovered by researchers, thereby leading to more successful outcomes. | | | CDC Report Cites Increase in Unsafe Sexual Behavior |
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http://www.sfaf.org/aboutsfaf/newsroom/unprotected.html
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| | HIV and AIDS Statistics for Australia (summary) |
| | Although it is clear that the rate of sexual transmission of HIV between men peaked in the mid 1980s, there is no reliable information on HIV incidence for recent years. | | | However, there is no indication of a recent increase in incidence, either in the surveillance reports of newly acquired HIV infection or estimates of HIV incidence among participants in the Sydney Men and Sexual Health (SMASH) study. | | | In the Sexual Health Strategy document it was noted that the overall rates of HIV and AIDS diagnosis per capita differed little between indigenous and non-indigenous people, but there has been a recent shift to a higher proportion of heterosexually acquired cases of HIV infection among indigenous people. |
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http://www.slamnet.org.uk/kmg/ebh/Avert/ausstatg.htm
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| | Older Siblings Play a Significant Role in Teens’ Attitudes About Sex |
| | Even when older siblings do not follow cautious sexual practices, their protective instincts might prompt them to encourage appropriate sexual behaviors in adolescents. | | | Amanda Kolburn, assistant professor of human development and family studies at MU, examined the role that older siblings play in protecting teens from engaging in unsafe sexual practices. | | | Kolburn found that older siblings who openly discussed sex with their teenaged siblings were more likely to encourage safer decisions about sexual activity among their brothers and sisters. |
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http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/social_sciences/report-29900.html
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| | Syphilis Epidemics Caused By Immunity Changes Not Sexual Behavior |
| | Although syphilis is a sexual transmitted disease, researchers from the Imperial College London said US epidemics are "due to the intrinsic cyclical nature of the disease," and changes in the immunity system of the population. | | | Syphilis Epidemics Caused By Immunity Changes Not Sexual Behavior | | | By analyzing previous epidemics, "it may also be possible to use these findings to help doctors and sexual health workers predict and prepare for future outbreaks of the disease," said Dr. Nicholas Grassly, who headed the research team. |
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http://www.healthtalk.ca/syphilis_012605_37883.php
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| | Elma Reingold |
| | You will be assigned into groups to research the best approach to foster abstinence, but also healthy and safe practices for teenagers who are sexually active. | | | You will work in a group to research, develop and present a public policy proposal to the Mayor that addresses new ways to communicate with teenagers about unsafe sexual practices in your community. | | | Due to all the research on the causes and effects of unsafe sex between teenagers, students will be able to develop an understanding of the problems faced by parents, Health departments and school administrators when trying to deal with unsafe sex between youngsters. |
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http://www.maxwell.syr.edu/plegal/tips/t4prod/reingoldwq1.html
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| | Students will research, develop and present a public policy proposal to the Mayor that addresses new ways to communicate with teenagers about unsafe sexual practices in their community. | | | Students will prepare a research report on how parents and their teens can communicate effectively about sexual health. | | | In this webquest, students will learn about sexuality, contraception, sexually transmitted diseases, and will gain knowledge on making good safe decisions in their lives. |
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http://www.safehealthyschools.org/webquests/sexual_health/index.htm
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| | IngentaConnect Male sex workers in Cordoba, Argentina: sociodemographic characte... |
| | Alcohol and drug consumption and unsafe sexual practices were relatively low among the MSWs. | | | Programs aimed at preventing the spread of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections and promoting responsible self-care among MSWs in Córdoba should be introduced. | | | Scales were included in order to assess attitudes towards condom use, knowledge about safe sex, perceptions about the risk of getting HIV, individual self-efficacy, and locus of control. |
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http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/paho/pajph/2003/00000013/00000005/art00006
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