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Coital frequency and sexual abstinence in rural Bangladesh

Journal of Biosocial Science, 1982
SummaryThe 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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Citizenship Lessons in Abstinence-Only Sexuality Education

American Journal of Sexuality Education, 2007
Abstract We examine abstinence-only-until-marriage education as part of a broad effort to reassert the primacy of conventional (hetero) sexual norms. While all sexuality education offers students lessons in “good sexual citizenship,” abstinence-only-until-marriage education reserves the rights and responsibilities of membership and belonging for those ...
Jessica Fields, Celeste Hirschman
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Sexual Abstinence: The Hidden Agenda

1998
Thus 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

1998
Tolstoy 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, 1984
SummaryData 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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Post-Partum Sexual Abstinence in Tropical Africa

1993
Abstract Post-partum taboos on sexual intercourse have been encountered in many countries throughout history. They were once advocated by medical authorities in Europe. The Greek and Roman doctors of antiquity were opposed to sexual relations during nursing, and their opinions were quoted until the nineteenth century. Galen (1951 edn.:
Etienne Van De Walle, Francine Van De Walle   +1 more
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Sexual abstinence and the Sexual Abstinence Behavior Scale*1

Journal of Pediatric Health Care, 2003
A NORRIS, L CLARK, S MAGNUS
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Sexual health among adolescent and young adult cancer survivors: A scoping review from the Children's Oncology Group Adolescent and Young Adult Oncology Discipline Committee

Ca-A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, 2021
Brooke Cherven, Sharon L Bober, Kristin M Bingen   +2 more
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Female erectile tissues and sexual dysfunction after pelvic radiotherapy: A scoping review

Ca-A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, 2022
Deborah C Marshall, Mas, Julie Bloom Bs, Mylin A Torres   +2 more
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Perceptions of sexual abstinence among Muslim adolescent girls in southern Thailand

International Journal of Adolescent Medicine and Health, 2018
Jitlada Piriyasart, P. Songwathana, S. Kools   +2 more
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