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Promotion of Sexual Abstinence
Southern Medical Journal, 1995The prevention of unplanned pregnancies has become a national public health priority. To assure that every newborn child in America is planned and wanted, three strategies are to be implemented: expansion of school-based sex education, expansion of free condom distribution, and expansion of the role of school-based health clinics.
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Sexually Abstinent African American Adolescent Females' Descriptions of Abstinence
Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 2003Purpose: To describe sexual abstinence from the perspective of abstinent African American female adolescents.Design: Descriptive qualitative.Methods: Data were collected from 14 sexually abstinent, African American adolescent girls during two semi‐structured interviews. Data were collected using the life history method and were analyzed in the style
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Coital frequency and sexual abstinence in rural Bangladesh
Journal of Biosocial Science, 1982SummaryThe paper analyses results of a survey of sexual and reproductive behaviour in a sample of 2301 currently married women aged less than 50 years. The survey was conducted in 22 villages of the ICDDR, B field station in Bangladesh. Admittedly, the sample is not representative as co-operation could not be obtained from about one-third of eligible ...
L T, Ruzicka, S, Bhatia
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Effect of sexual arousal on semen parameters during abstinence
Andrologia, 2022Semen analysis and physical examination are performed while first evaluation for patients with male infertility. Alcohol, smoking and dietary habits can affect the semen parameters. This study aimed to evaluate whether semen parameters are changed with sexual arousal. After excluding, 100 patients with ages of 18-45 were included to the study.
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The Teenage Sexual Revolution and the Myth of an Abstinent Past
Family Planning Perspectives, 1972Reasons for the rise in teenage illegitimacy are discussed. In the past relatively poor health conditions may have moderated the consequences of nonmarital teen-age sex. Improved health conditions appear to have increased the chances that an out-of-wedlock conception will be carried to term and have also increased the capacity of sexually active ...
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The Centrality of Sexual Abstinence in the Buddha’s Teachings
2023Most major religions speak about the need to maintain sexual abstinence and even celibacy, especially among monks. However, seldom do we see the rationale for this rule spelled out anywhere. What is more, none of these orders explain how to do so. An exception on both counts are the Teachings of the Buddha.
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Sexual Abstinence: The Hidden Agenda
1998Thus far I have only scratched the surface of Tolstoy’s case for sexual abstinence. Buried in the depths of The Kreutzer Sonata is a much more disturbed and disturbing motivation for the ideal of chastity. Yet what is hidden in the novella, when brought to light, will help us understand much more about Tolstoy than we might have anticipated from a ...
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Tolstoy’s Case for Sexual Abstinence
1998Tolstoy began working on what was to become The Kreutzer Sonata in 1887, completing the work late in 1889. Already in the late 1870s Tolstoy had drafted a short piece entitled The Wife Murderer’.231 But then the idea for such a work was abandoned for quite a while, perhaps because Tolstoy had trouble finding an appropriate narrative form, or perhaps ...
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Breast-feeding and sexual abstinence in Papua New Guinea
Journal of Biosocial Science, 1984SummaryData collected in Papua New Guinea between November 1979 and March 1980 show that the main reason for prolonged breast-feeding and sexual abstinence is to ensure the welfare of the mother and child (which is indirectly a means of child spacing).
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Sexual abstinence and the Sexual Abstinence Behavior Scale*1
Journal of Pediatric Health Care, 2003A NORRIS, L CLARK, S MAGNUS
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