"Sexual initiation" refers to the process or act of starting and experiencing sexual activity for the first time.
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Specific components of peer norms impact the process
of sexual initiation in both positive and negative ways.
African American adolescents living in high - poverty urban settings are at increased risk for
early sexual initiation and sexually transmitted diseases.
These findings suggest that increased parental monitoring may be a much less effective strategy in settings where
early sexual initiation is common.
A nine - year, large - scale federally funded evaluation of the Title V program found no measurable impact on increasing abstinence or
delaying sexual initiation among participating youth.
«Although
sexual initiation in adolescence is less common in Taiwan, the results indicate that the sexually experienced adolescents were associated with a cluster of adverse sociobehavioral consequences, similar to those found in Western societies,» writes Chan.
In addition, practitioners who serve adolescents in high - risk settings could encourage parents or guardians to become more involved with their children's sexual decision making and thereby increase the chances that
adolescent sexual initiation will be either delayed or appropriately protected.
Unlike at Hogwarts, though, new students at my school were subjected to humiliating,
often sexual initiation rituals.
Chen's team found that
sexual initiation during adolescence was consistently associated with externalizing problems including rule - breaking and aggressive behavior.
This sets the stage for plenty of «Bad» antics, partly played out in a rap - scored montage of drinking, shoplifting, and vandalism (precursor to a
junior sexual initiation of getting flashed by a full - figured prostitute).
The purpose of this study was to assess the role of a family homework component of a comprehensive sex education intervention in delaying
sexual initiation for early adolescents and to explore what social and contextual factors prevent adolescents from completing these family homework activities.
While at UNB, her research
examined sexual initiation, sexual compliance, attraction, oral sex motives, and the content of web - based pornography.Her dissertation examined the association between violated romantic expectations (e.g., love at first sight, destiny) and relationship outcomes in young adults» dating relationships.
Interventions aimed at delaying the onset of
sexual initiation need to focus on cohort norms as well as on an individual's perceptions and behaviors.
Parental monitoring was related to the rate of
sexual initiation throughout the age range studied, with heavily monitored youth exhibiting a slower rate of initiation than less - monitored youth.
Parental control and permissive attitudes towards teenage sex and pregnancy link at - risk family structures and maternal dating to early
sexual initiation among females, though these variables do not fully explain family structure and maternal dating effects.
Children who reported high levels of parental monitoring were less likely to report initiating sex in preadolescence (aged ≤ 10 years) and reported lower rates of
sexual initiation as they aged.
Background African American adolescents living in high - poverty urban settings are at increased risk for
early sexual initiation and sexually transmitted diseases.
Results Children who reported high levels of parental monitoring were less likely to report initiating sex in preadolescence (aged ≤ 10 years) and reported lower rates
of sexual initiation as they aged.
Conversations warning about the possibility of contracting an STD and disapproving of sex in general, were actually correlated with higher levels of
sexual initiation, unprotected sex, and sexually transmitted infections.
Overall, an earlier age at menstruation was associated with an earlier age of
sexual initiation, age at pregnancy, and first live birth.
Peer Effects in
Sexual Initiation: Separating Demand and Supply Mechanisms» PIER Working Paper 12 - 015
It can be hard to read scenes such as the one where Eddy has his — not entirely consensual or wholesome —
sexual initiation.
His first works from this period consist of refined draughtsmanship, pastel colors, and subtle tonal nuances, evoking childhood and adolescent memories, particularly those pertaining to
sexual initiation and fantasy.
The abstinence only curriculum reduced
the sexual initiation among participants.
Parental involvement activities, including parent - child communication, parental monitoring and parents» involvement in their children's day - to - day activities, are associated with delayed
sexual initiation, lower frequency of sexual activity, a reduction in sexual partners, and an increase in the use of condoms and contraception.
Abstinence - only programs are fiscally irresponsible and have been proven to not delay
sexual initiation or lower rates of pregnancy or sexually transmitted infections.
Individual risk factors for perpetration include alcohol and drug use, delinquency, empathic deficits, general aggressiveness and acceptance of violence, early
sexual initiation, coercive sexual fantasies, preference for impersonal sex and sexual - risk taking, exposure to sexually explicit media, hostility towards women, adherence to traditional gender role norms, hyper - masculinity, suicidal behavior, and prior sexual victimization or perpetration.
This sexual initiation and refusal is a dance which can be choreographed to making yes and no feel less personal and more acceptable.
Although this might initially seem counter intuitive, when one recognizes the power of being able to reject
a sexual initiation by ones partner, it becomes much more apparent.
The decrease in girls» participation in risky sexual behavior associated with sports involvement is party due to a delay in
sexual initiation and party to social - psychological dynamics, such as enhanced self - confidence, a less stereotypically feminine gender role identity, and / or a stronger desire to avoid teenage pregnancy.
This investigation will longitudinally explore continuity and change in teen - family sexual communication over teens» transition to high school, extend parent - teen dyadic studies of family sexual communication to encompass broader family networks, and study the potential of teen - family sexual communication to protect teens against the unhealthy consequences of early
sexual initiation.
Early
Sexual Initiation and Mental Health: A Fleeting Association or Enduring Change?.
Sexual Activity Among Young People in the U.S. Source: Finer LB and Philbin JM,
Sexual initiation, contraceptive use, and pregnancy among young adolescents, Pediatrics, 2013, 131 (5): 886 — 891.
However, these studies were not conducted with adolescents in high - poverty urban settings, where early
sexual initiation is more normative than in lower - poverty settings.20 In a high - risk sample of African American youths aged 9 to 15 years, Romer et al21 found that parental monitoring was related only to very early sexual initiation (aged ≤ 10 years) and not to subsequent initiation of sex or condom use.
A multiple logistic regression analysis indicated that parental monitoring was inversely related to
sexual initiation (χ21 = 19.16, P =.0001), holding age, sex, their interaction, and type of guardian constant.
Sexual initiation among adolescent girls and boys: trends and differentials in sub-Saharan Africa
We explore whether such experiences are independent risk factors for IPV victimization and perpetration, even when accounting for aggressive behaviors and related risk taking, including drinking and
sexual initiation, during early adolescence.
Children's reported discussion with guardians about sexual risks did not add to the prediction of
sexual initiation, either alone (χ21 = 0.66, P =.42) or in interaction with parental monitoring (χ21 = 0.35, P =.55).
Child Sexual Abuse and Intimate Partner Violence Victimization in Adulthood: Sex - Differences in the Mediating Influence of Age of
Sexual Initiation.
Analysis of the recent National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, 35 a nationally representative sample of school - attending adolescents, indicated that contact between parents and adolescents is a major protective factor for a wide range of risk behaviors, including early
sexual initiation.
Interventions with parents and other guardians are a promising strategy for reducing the risks of
sexual initiation, because parents may be a more constant protective influence on children during the adolescent years than other influences.