“Hey, Have You Been Tested?” The Influence of Comprehensive or Abstinence-Only Sexuality Education on Safer Sex Communication and Behavior

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-32
Author(s):  
Katherine L. Grasso ◽  
Lauren A. Trumbull
Keyword(s):  
Sexuality Education ◽  
Safer Sex ◽  
Sex Communication ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
Abstinence Only

scholarly journals ‘It is not expected for married couples’: a qualitative study on challenges to safer sex communication among polygamous and monogamous partners in southeastern Tanzania

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 32326 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sally Mmanyi Mtenga ◽  
Eveline Geubbels ◽  
Marcel Tanner ◽  
Sonja Merten ◽  
Constanze Pfeiffer
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Safer Sex ◽  
Married Couples ◽  
Sex Communication

scholarly journals General population and HIV prevention: from risk to action

1999 ◽  
Vol 15 (suppl 2) ◽  
pp. S93-S105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geneviève Paicheler
Keyword(s):  
Safer Sex ◽  
Personal Control ◽  
Management Model ◽  
Personal Risk ◽  
Preventive Actions ◽  
Practice Behavior ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Dynamics Of Action

Since knowledge about AIDS transmission now appears to be very good, many observers are surprised that more people do not practice behavior, like safer sex, designed to minimize risk of contracting the disease. Still, previous studies have not shown that there is a direct link between knowledge and behavior. New models, based on people's concrete experiences, are therefore needed. The goal of this qualitative research, based on 61 in-depth interviews conducted in France, is to describe how people understand the threat of AIDS and how they face the risk of transmission in their sex lives. In order to understand preventive actions, we must study how information is interpreted and how knowledge is integrated, so that people perceive general or personal risk. We must also specify the way in which people distinguish between aspects of risk perception and vulnerability; feelings of personal control, constructed on the basis of social experiences; characteristics of situations; and finally, the dynamics of action. The proposed risk management model accounts for these diverse factors in elucidating the great diversity of actions reported. This dynamic, non-linear model is designed to capture both the impact of perceptive and cognitive elements on action and vice versa.

Examining the Principles of Influence on Safer Sex Communication During Casual and Committed Sexual Encounters

2015 ◽  
Vol 20 (10) ◽  
pp. 1214-1223 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tobias Reynolds-Tylus ◽  
Anna Rinaldi-Miles ◽  
Brian L. Quick
Keyword(s):  
Safer Sex ◽  
Sex Communication ◽  
Sexual Encounters

Toward a Sexual Ethics Curriculum: Bringing Philosophy and Society to Bear on Individual Development

2010 ◽  
Vol 80 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharon Lamb
Keyword(s):  
Sex Education ◽  
Citizenship Education ◽  
Sexuality Education ◽  
Ethical Reasoning ◽  
Individual Development ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Sexually Transmitted ◽  
History Of ◽  
Ethics Curriculum ◽  
Abstinence Only

For over a decade, battles have raged between conservative Abstinence Only Until Marriage (AOUM) sexuality education advocates and liberal Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) advocates. While these battles have focused on the inclusion of health information about contraception and whether or not a curriculum must advocate abstinence as the best and only method to avoid pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases, these debates have often ignored other important values about sex. In this article, Sharon Lamb reviews the recent history of these sexuality education battles, criticizes both AOUM and CSE curricula, and discusses how, in CSE's accommodation to AOUM objections, ethical dimensions of sex education may have been neglected in favor of evidence-based practice. She then suggests ways in which the current curricula could teach ethical reasoning and make sex education a form of citizenship education, focusing on justice, equity, and caring for the other person as well as the self.

Parents’ attitudes toward comprehensive and inclusive sexuality education

2015 ◽  
Vol 115 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina R. Peter ◽  
Timothy B. Tasker ◽  
Stacey S. Horn
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Sexual Health ◽  
Physical Health ◽  
Sexuality Education ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Sexual Health Information ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Abstinence Only ◽  
Lack Of Knowledge

Purpose – Parents are sometimes perceived as barriers to providing comprehensive and inclusive sexuality education to young people. However, little is known about parents’ actual attitudes towards providing such broad information to young people. The purpose of this paper is to examine two different approaches to measuring parents’ attitudes towards sexuality information, a programme title approach and a topic-centred approach. Design/methodology/approach – Illinois parents of adolescents (n=301) indicated their knowledge about and attitudes towards sexuality education programmes and 18 sexual health topics via online survey. Confirmatory factor analysis was used to examine whether parents’ attitudes were more consistent with a programme-centred (i.e. abstinence-only, comprehensive) or a topic-centred (i.e. physical health, sexual and gender identity, pleasure, and relationships) approach. Findings – Parents were uncertain about what form of sexuality education was offered but most were equally comfortable with both abstinence-only and comprehensive programmes. Parents’ ratings of topics grouped significantly better by the topic-centred than the programme-centred approach. Parents rated all four subjects as important, with the highest mean ratings given to physical health topics. Further, parents’ ratings of importance by subject matter were largely independent of their reported programming preference. Together these findings provide evidence that parents believe it is important for their children to have access to a broad range of sexual health education information. Originality/value – This study is one of the first to document parents’ support for information for young people that goes beyond being comprehensive to include topics such as identities and pleasure. In addition, parents’ lack of knowledge about sexuality education programming may obscure their support for sexual health information. Measuring support by specific topics, however, can help to overcome issues due to parents’ lack of knowledge about programming.

scholarly journals Review of qualitative studies related to safer sex among college students and adolescents

2009 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amar Kanekar ◽  
Manoj Sharma ◽  
Janet Wray
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Sexual Behaviors ◽  
Sexuality Education ◽  
English Language ◽  
Safer Sex ◽  
Qualitative Studies ◽  
Practice Research ◽  
Power Differentials ◽  
Review Form

Objective: To review various published peer-reviewed literature conducted in the arena of qualitative studies concerned with HIV related sexual practice among adolescents and college students and discuss implications for research. Data source: An extensive search of five databases was completed. The inclusion criteria for all researches consisted of all qualitative peer-reviewed research articles pertaining to adolescents and college students published in the English language since 1981. The exclusion criteria were all peer-reviewed articles related to qualitative research published in languages other than English and articles related to populations other than adolescents and college students. Data synthesis: An instrument developed by the McMaster University Occupational Therapy Evidence-Based Practice Research Group called Guidelines for Critical Review Form was used to synthesize collected articles. Results: Important findings were: support of participants for sexuality education, attitudes towards safer sex, parents support for safer sex messages in schools, and sexual risk behaviors being due to gender power differentials. Conclusions: Qualitative research methodologies enable researchers to explore how and why persons think, feel and behave as they do in sexual behaviors.

Sexuality Education and Desire: Still Missing after All These Years

2006 ◽  
Vol 76 (3) ◽  
pp. 297-338 ◽  
Author(s):  
MICHELLE FINE ◽  
SARA McCLELLAND
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Young People ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Sexuality Education ◽  
Adolescent Females ◽  
Youth Of Color ◽  
National Policies ◽  
Transgender Youth ◽  
Research Guidelines ◽  
Abstinence Only

Nearly twenty years after the publication of Michelle Fine's essay "Sexuality, Schooling, and Adolescent Females: The Missing Discourse of Desire," the question of how sexuality education influences the development and health of adolescents remains just as relevant as it was in 1988. In this article, Michelle Fine and Sara McClelland examine the federal promotion of curricula advocating abstinence only until marriage in public schools and, in particular, how these policies constrict the development of "thick desire" in young women. Their findings highlight the fact that national policies have an uneven impact on young people and disproportionately place the burden on girls, youth of color, teens with disabilities, and lesbian/gay/bisexual/ transgender youth. With these findings in mind, the authors provide a set of research guidelines to encourage researchers, policymakers, and advocates as they collect data on, develop curricula for, and change the contexts in which young people are educated about sexuality and health.

Epilogue

2021 ◽  
pp. 241-254
Author(s):  
Kristy L. Slominski
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Activity ◽  
Sex Education ◽  
Sexuality Education ◽  
Federal Funding ◽  
Barack Obama ◽  
Religious Influence ◽  
George Bush ◽  
Full Swing ◽  
Abstinence Only ◽  
Religious Actors

The epilogue discusses the enormous power of recent presidential administrations to mold sex education through federal funding initiatives. Since 1996, the country has seen the pendulum in full swing, from the increase in abstinence-only support under President George Bush, to advancement of comprehensive sexuality education under President Barack Obama, to serious efforts to shift funds toward abstinence-only programs under current President Donald Trump. The legacies of religious sex educators established select terms of these discussions, especially in portrayals of what is at stake. Throughout this history, religious people have proven that the concept of morality could be used to expand discourses of sexuality beyond physical considerations, to limit these discussions to the restriction of sexual activity, or, in most cases, both. Contrary to narratives that pit secular sex education against religious actors, religious influence has been and continues to be both multidimensional and pervasive in the development of sex education.

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