Sexuality and Adolescence

Reflecting on this question, the influences of religion, science and media that may have an affect on the way I might view or think in regards to my sexuality, I find very interesting; the author’s view that we as individuals or society are influenced solely by these outside sources in our sexuality, my thoughts are different towards this. As a youth and young adult I would say yes there might have been a slight influence directed by the media (music), but today as an adult I feel no influence at all from theses forms of direct sources to my sexuality. This could be because society is over run and conditioned by the media and what is constantly in our faces, by television, radio, advertisement and other forms that we do not notice anymore becoming

Teen pregnancy falls into the category of pregnancies in girls age 19 or younger (NIH). Although statistics have shown a decrease, the number of teen pregnancy in the U.S. is still relatively high compared to the rest of the world. Sexual health is one of the top priorities in early adolescence health in the United States. Consequences of having sex at a young age generally results in unsafe sex practices. The consequences can be due to the lack of knowledge about sex education, and access to birth control/contraception (NIH, 2005). Due to the lack of knowledge and access to birth control, adolescents involve in risk taking when they start to explore sexual intimate relationships.

I informed Anna that her mother is only looking out for her well-being, and all the young man want is to have sex with her. However, after talking with the mother she decided to let Anna try to use the six steps on making a conscience and well thought out decision. I shared with Anna’s mother that she must realize that though this decision making is an important skill to teach and to learn, teens are still more likely to make snap decisions and act on impulse - teen brains are still in construction.

Getting a girl pregnant may not seem to be the end of the world at the time, but when the other

What were the Research Questions or Hypotheses in the article? Copy them directly from the article. Then, using YOUR OWN WORDS, briefly paraphrase what these mean. 5 points

Sexual behaviors and experimentation are very much a part of childhood development. Normative sexual behaviors of children consists of preschool children poking others bodies, and being interested in bathroom functions, while children ages 5 to 7 years are telling dirty jokes, kissing, and holding hands, and children ages 8 to 12 years, are mooning and exhibitionism, kissing, and touching others’ genitals (Caldwell, 2007). However when children are not supervised appropriately they are capable of sexually harming other children. Adolescents are accountable for perpetrating 20% of all sexual assaults, along with 50% of all child sexual abuse cases (Keelan & Fremouw, 2013). However in considering that statistic some sexual harming behaviors can be within the parameters of normal child behavior, and sometimes rarely signal predatory inclinations (Caldwell, 2007). The vast majority of youth harmful sexual acts are manifestations of non-sexual feelings. In fact, many mental health care professionals have found that much of the behavior classified as sex offenses should not necessarily be considered predatory. Therapists point out that many sexual offenses are carried out by naïve experimenters who are overly impulsive and/or immature adolescents that sometimes engage in sexual experimentation (Smith, Wampler, Jones, & Reifman, 2005). Examining the sexual behavior along with the age of the perpetrator and victim helps classify whether or not those behaviors fall

Sexuality is a key factor in today’s society. Everything around us currently revolves around sex. Such as ads, programs, and shows. Sexuality is integrated so deeply in our life’s that it becomes part of our identity. So much that people have characterize each others sexual orientation as straight, gay, lesbian, etc. In the books Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes and The Catcher In The Rye By J.D Salinger , characters Holden Caulfield and Charlie Gordon deal with a form of sexual identity crisis. Their sexual dilemma revolves around the questioning of their actions and how they can’t get use to having sex without something bad happening or questioning their self worth. Holden and Charlie's incompetence

There’s a girl in high school right now. She is young, excited, and ready for what high school has to offer for her. She is young, inexperienced, and clueless to the world around her. As a Freshman at a new school, she has a lot of questions that need to be answered. Two weeks into her Freshman year, she is being pressured into sex and knows nothing about it or the consequences of unprotected sex. Teen pregnancy is a high risk in America. As a nation, our teens were ranked highest in sexual transmitted diseases and being completely uneducated about the consequences. This is why public schools are in need of sex education all around the country,

Children, adolescent, and teenagers do not have the maturity to make a decision that essentially affects the rest of their life. Furthermore, scientifically the frontal lobe of the brain that influences rational thought is not fully developed until twenty-five years of age. However, look at the information given in the article, families want to reduce premarital sex as if a female can have sex alone, and the burden of taking care of and providing for their female child. This translates to me that no matter the repercussions our daughter will face, she is no longer the responsibility of the family. Another desensitizing way that societies view

Allowing teenagers to get contraceptives without parents’ permission encourages them to become sexually active. Teenagers do not become sexually active because they can get contraceptives. Young woman in the U.S. Have been sexually active for at least 22 months before they visit a family planning provider. 47 percent sexually active teenage girls said they would not get health services from clinics if they could not get contraceptives without parent’s permission. Teenage girls have the highest reported rates of chlamydia and other diseases. Close to 900,000 teenagers get pregnant each year. Four out of ten girls get pregnant at least once before they turn twenty. Teenage girls that do not use contraception has a 90 percent chance of getting pregnant within a year.

I have been told this by my parents but under completely different circumstances. But back to the topic, it seems that the Dutch family was more reasonable, in that they talk to the girl about sex and its consequences. And it seemed that the family was not ok with the girl having sex, but they realized that since they couldn’t do any thing to stop it from continuing, the gave the boy a chance. On the contrary, the American family was way harder with the girl considering that they did not talk to her about sex and it seemed that they strictly prohibited sex. And as you stated a hormonally crazed teen will find a way to get his way. This resulted the American girl to have sex without her parents consent to avoid the consequences. Honestly, I were doing such thing, I would like to come to my parents for advice without having them explode. That is why so many teens in America, like the girl in your article. Probably if a parent would be more open for discussion about the topic the teen could inclusively even back out of the plan to have sex, and like I say if you can trust your parent, who can you trust. Doing some research I found that nearly 50% of all teens in America engage in sexual intercourse by age 16. That is

Anger, sex, and anxiety are all different behaviors that some children and adults have. Anger is caused by biological factors and whatever environment the child was grown up in. According to Gina Simmons, licensed marriage and family therapist and the developer for Manage Anger Daily for Teens program, "By the time the average American child completes elementary school he or she has seen 8,000 murders and over 100,000 other acts of violence on television" (1). This evidence shows that the environment that most American children grow up in is violent which can cause the anger that is in children. Sexual behavior is also something that is heavily influenced by parents and the media in children and teenagers. "According to figures from the

1. Chapter 9, “Adolescence” Body and Mind,” section Puberty explains the physical and mental changes that teenagers go through, it’s the state in which they transition from children to young adults, incapable of completely just one or the other (Berger, 315). The first changes of puberty, physically-wise, begins around the ages of 9 – 13 years’ old for both boys and girls, which include facial and body hair, deepening of the voice, and of course body growth; such as the hands, feet, face, and private parts. Although genetics do play a role of the timing of these body changes, environmental, emotional, and cultural factors can also affect the time and age when puberty happens. Sometimes it’s delayed, other times the process is quicker than norm. “About two thirds of the variation of age of puberty is genetic, evident not only in families, but also in ethnic groups…precocious puberty is genetic, but the cause of the increase is largely unknown – perhaps childhood obesity or new chemicals in the environment” (Berger, 320-321). Among puberty, adolescents’ nutrition become poor due to body image…In addition, there eating disorders that teenagers discover during their transition, they are more “vulnerable to unhealthy eating,” and unlike childhood, “eating disorders increase drastically during puberty” (Berger, 325). This part of the chapter explains two major and serious types of eating disorders. Anorexia Nervosa is a voluntarily starvation in which a person will starve him or

Adolescence is a stage of maturation between childhood and adulthood that denotes the period from the beginning of puberty to maturity. However, many conflicting opinions are raised about weather such a stage of childhood is influenced by stress, depression, and suicide rate. Some people support the optimistic view that says that adolescence is not a period of storm and stress. Others, including me, support an opposite pessimistic view which characterizes adolescence as a period of stress and inner turmoil. Unfortunately, it has been recently proved that depression is a growing problem in today 's society and a major contributing factor for a multitude of adolescent problems. This is because , as research indicates, adolescent depression

The sexual orientation identity development is a theoretical model that conceptualized the resolution of internal conflict related to the formation of individual sexual identity. For sexual minority people, it is commonly known as the coming-out process (Bilodeau & Renn 2005). There have been many different models elaborated to explain such process. All of them share similar stages: awareness, crisis, and acceptance (Loiacano 1989). When individuals become aware of their queer feelings and attraction, they try to block these homosexual feelings by constantly denying and minimizing them. This mechanism of defense leaves negative sequelae in their overall psychosocial well-being (Bilodeau & Renn 2005). Individuals tend to pass by a