If we are serious about helping young people to
delay intercourse, the evidence requires the use of more complex approaches, including comprehensive sexuality education.
If you continue to have tenderness in that area,
delay intercourse until you feel ready.
Peer Educators will strengthen their peers» skills in building healthy relationships, refusing and
delaying intercourse, making responsible decisions, and planning for adulthood, and will be empowered to advocate for changes in government and school policy to encourage women's rights and comprehensive sexuality education.
Not exact matches
According to Advocates for Youth: «A major study showed that adolescents who reported feeling connected to parents and their family were more likely than other teens to
delay initiating sexual
intercourse.
Anxiety was related to
delay of first
intercourse.
«Previous studies have shown that teens who talk with their parents about sex are more likely to make responsible decisions that affect their health and well - being, including
delaying sexual
intercourse and practicing prevention when they eventually do become sexually active.
Demonstrate assertive communication and refusal skills for
delaying sexual
intercourse and avoiding unprotected sexual activity.
It works by
delaying or preventing ovulation, or the release of an egg from a woman's ovary, when taken within five days of unprotected
intercourse.
(7) Research doesn't support abstinence - only education There is no published scientific research demonstrating that abstinence - only programs have actually
delayed the onset of
intercourse or reduced any other measure of sexual activity among teens.
There are no published studies in the professional literature that show that abstinence - only programs will result in young people
delaying sexual
intercourse.
In fact, at least one study has provided strong evidence that such a program did not
delay the onset of
intercourse.
(1) The CDC confirms that «the dual approach of
delaying first
intercourse among all adolescents and increasing condom use among those who are sexually active has succeeded in reducing overall risk through improvements in both behaviors.»
Programs must take place before young people begin experimenting with sexual behaviors if they are to result in a
delay of sexual
intercourse.