In the adolescent stage, teens begin to develop sexual relations with significant others. It is a big decision that comes with precautions and responsibility. Unprotected sex can have many consequences such as sexually transmitted diseases and pregnancy. Unprotected sex is having sexual intercourse without contraceptives such as condoms and birth controls.
Each year, approximately 750,000 teen girls get pregnant with approximately 400,000 births from teens. Pregnancy is caused by unprotected sex. When getting pregnant at a young age, there is a lot of responsibility that comes with it. The mother must take care of herself and her body to keep the baby healthy as well. She has to follow up with doctor appointments, take daily vitamins, lose
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That’s why it is important to know your partner before having sexual intercourse along with wearing a condom during intercourse. A condom is a thin, stretchy pouch like material that the male puts on his penis before/during sexual intercourse. This prevents sperm from getting into the vagina and meeting the egg to produce pregnancy. They also protect against STD’s. Condoms protect you and your partner from having direct skin to skin contact in your genital areas. Direct skin to skin contact along with bodily fluids can carry infections that may need medical attention.
Condoms aren’t the only thing that helps prevent pregnancy, birth control does too.
Birth control has been around for years however it does not protect you from STD’s that why it’s important to also use a condom as protection. Birth control is a series of hormones that prevent pregnancy from occurring. Although it is not 100% affective, it usually works well. There are many kinds of birth controls available such as, the patch, the pill, the ring, depo shot, IUD and many others. In conclusion, it is very important to practice safe sex. You don’t want to be the teen that gets pregnant in high school and drops out or that teen that encountered a sexually transmitted disease. It takes two seconds to put a condom on or take your birth control pill but forever to raise a child. Think before you act to provide a better future for
Condoms are categories into two type one is male type condom and one is female type condom. Male type condom can by many material such as latex, plastic and animal membrane. As the function is just to act as a wrapper to stop the semen enter to the vagina. The advantages are easy to use and getting protection against sexually infection. The disadvantage is it may tear or break without improper use. For female condom, it is an internal use condom as the condom needed to put inside the vagina with a device to hold the place. The advantage is protected form HIV infection and disadvantage is it very hard to put the condom correctly. For barrier birth control method also have spermicide, diaphragm, and sterilization. Spermicide is a gel type barrier for birth control, as it available in several forms for personal convenience and disadvantage is it may be difficult to use because it have to apply immediately before intercourse. Then, diaphragm is a domed-shape rubber cup that for female user only and there is having the spermicidal jelly inside the dome. The jelly is to kill the sperm cells. The advantage is it can be keep for two or three months if clean and stored properly and disadvantage is required to go to clinic or physician for the fitting. Sterilization is the way that can be done by male or female as it only needed to cut the tube lead to the scrotum and join to urethra (vasectomy), as
About 40 percent of sexually active teenagers admit to not using any form of protection (like a condom) during their last session. Behavior like this leads to higher risks of pregnancy or even
This little lesson on how to properly use a condom can help prevent sexually active people from getting an STD. Some other protection methods are female condoms, sponges, and diaphrams. When it comes down to choosing a good protection method, there are lots of places people can go to to get information.
Contraception has been around for thousands of years. Several methods and technologies have occurred over these years to help further the effectiveness of contraception. Contraceptives come in all shapes and sizes and each one has different qualities including, their strengths and weaknesses. The most commonly used contraceptive is a condom, which helps prevent pregnancies and the transmission of sexual diseases. One large advance for contraception is birth control, which falls almost completely under women. Only two forms of contraceptives are for men; condoms and vasectomies. Providing a birth control for men, knowing the chemical abilities to
Planned Parenthood provides affordable services to protect against unplanned pregnancy. Planned Parenthood provides many different forms of contraceptives. One of the most common forms of contraceptives is condoms. Condoms are called “barrier contraceptives” because they are external blockades. Planned Parenthood also provides birth control. There are many different types of birth control such as: the birth control pill or patch, the depo-shot, the birth control sponge, the vaginal ring, and many other options. The pill is the most common form of birth control. You take the pill by mouth every day and it prevents the eggs from leaving your ovaries. Planned Parenthood also contributes
As a female visiting the doctor for the first time, some may ask what birth control to their doctor is. Birth control is pretty complex, if any female does not take it a certain way. There are multiple ways to take birth control such as the pill, the Depo shot, or the Nuva Ring, and many more. As doing research, about 98% of women in the United States has used birth control at
Who in here has heard of or even know what the term birth control is? According to medicinenet.com, birth control is the use of any practices, methods, or devices to prevent pregnancy from occuring in sexually active women. Today, I will be talking about a couple of methods of birth control which include: the pill, the patch, and the implant. Another method I will be talking to you about isn’t always considered a form of birth control, but it actually is; condoms. My goal today is to not only inform you of the many birth controls but to also encourage you to look at the pros and the cons of every method if you are using contraception. Birth control is a very broad topic with many alternatives which can impact your lifestyle in many ways, therefore you should consider these alternatives before applying any form of contraceptive into your body and find the method that works best for you.
In conclusion safe sex is no sex. You learned about contraceptives like condoms, and pills. You learned about emergency contraceptives like Plan-B, or One-Day. You also learned where to get, and use them. If you’re going to have sex be safe because if you’re not you may regretted the consequences later
More than half of all high school students, both male and female, use condoms as their way of preventing pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases during their first time having sex. Since condoms are the primary source of contraceptive amongst teens and can easily be misused, schools need to enable sexual education courses to teach students the proper application in order to prevent later repercussions. Another popular form of contraception, the oral birth control pill, is more effective than condom; however, birth control pills come with the responsibility of taking them properly along with no protection against STDs. With the strict schedule that birth control pills should be taken, teens are likely to forget which can cause hormonal harm within a young female, and some are not even completely aware of how to take birth control pills. Many adolescents are mainly focused on how to not get pregnant when it comes to sex, which birth control pills are proven to most likely prevent, but they are as familiar with
In chapter 5, I learned about different ways of birth control. For males there are condoms for a barrier method. While for women, they have many barrier the methods and birth control pills. Male condoms fit over the penis, while the women condoms are single-use nitrile sheath for internal use during vaginal intercouse. Both condoms have options to use spermicides which is a substance that kills the sperm. Aside from condoms women have diaphragm, which is a latex, cup-shape that blocks access to the uterus. If the device is left more than 48 hours the women can get toxic shock syndrome which is when a specific bacterial toxins multiply and spread in the bloodstream. There are also oral contraceptives which are pills that contain hormones that
Sexual education teaches adolescents about the use of birth control, their bodies, STD’s, and pregnancy. Due to the awareness of sexual education, adolescents are more careful about sexual intercourse. The pregnancy rate has reached the lowest in modern era between 1990-2010. It declined to 51% pregnancies per 1000 females ages 14-19 to 57.4%. This is the lowest recorded since 1973. Sexual education was not offered in schools until 1983 and many people had close to no knowledge about the options. Even though teens today are aware of their options today, they do not take proper precautions.
Knowledge about condoms and contraceptives provide the teenagers a better understanding which may lessen the incidence of early pregnancies and infections brought about by sexual intercourse. The author also recommends the government to sponsor condom availability programs for high school students to provide more access to condoms and contraceptives. Prohibiting the young people of today from using condoms and contraceptives may only increase the problems of illnesses and unwanted pregnancies so it may be more beneficial to do
that condoms, when used consistently and correctly, can protect against the transmission of bacterial infections.” (Dawson) Birth control is typically for the female.
"Over one million teenage girls become pregnant each year. In the next 24 hours, about 3,312 girls will become pregnant. In addition, 43% of all adolescents become pregnant before the age of 20. These are incredible statistics when you consider that there are only 31 million females. The United States has the highest adolescent pregnancy rate in the developed world. As statistics show one in nine women between the ages of 15 through 19 become pregnant each year. Also, every 26 seconds a teenage girl becomes pregnant and every 56 seconds a child of a teenage mother is born."
Birth control, also called contraceptives, is a method of preventing pregnancy. They work in different ways and are taken at