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Virginity Pledges Do Not Prevent STDs

Teenagers who make a pledge to remain virgins until they get married usually don’t keep their promise, according to a federal study examining the sex lives of 12,000 adolescents. What’s more, they have the same rate of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) as teenagers who don’t pledge abstinence. Those who make the virginity pledge delay having sex somewhat (18 months), but 88 percent of those who pledged chastity had sex before they were married. The study found that 99 percent of non-pledgers had sex before they were married.

Teenagers who pledged virginity married earlier and had fewer sexual partners; they were also less likely (40 percent) to use condoms as compared to teenagers who didn’t pledge abstinence (59 percent). Teenagers who made pledges were less likely to know they had any infections, raising their risk of transmitting STDs to other people. The findings challenge some assumptions of “virginity pledges” among teenagers and promoting abstinence before marriage. Telling teenagers “to just say no without understanding risk or how to protect oneself from risk” creates an increased risk of STDs, said Dr. Peter Bearman, chairman of the sociology department of Colombia University and lead author of the study. The results are part of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health.

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Teen Pregnancy Down, Condom Use Up

Teen PregnancyAmerican teenagers are having less sex, using more protection and that’s resulting in fewer pregnancies. The teenage pregnancy rate, which rose sharply between 1986 and 1991, has declined steadily for a decade. While contraception efforts have focused largely on girls, boy’s behavior has changed most. More than half of male high school students said they were virgins in 2001, compared to 39 percent this year.

For sexually active males, condom use has risen to 65 percent. Delays in first intercourse and better contraception have contributed to a 35 percent reduction in birth rates among 15 to 17-year-olds, experts say. “From the ground up, kids are getting quite different signals from the signals that were there 25 years ago,” said Frank Furstenberg, a sociologist at the University of Pennsylvania.

The fear of AIDS, the impact of AIDS prevention education, changes in welfare laws and the crackdown on fathers for child support, and sex education that includes abstinence and contraception are among the factors influencing teenagers. The data is from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Alan Guttmacher Institute and the Child Trends Databank.

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Sexual Equality May Bring Better Sex

Equality between men and women may boost sex lives, U.S. researchers report.A team at the University of Chicago surveyed about 27,500 people, ages 40 to 80, in 29 countries.
The study found that couples who live in Western countries and who have gender equality were most likely to report being satisfied with their sex lives. In contrast, people in countries where men have a dominant status over women -- such as East Asia and the Middle East -- reported less satisfaction with the physical and emotional quality of their sex lives.

Sexual satisfaction was highest in four countries -- Austria, the United States, Spain, and Canada -- and lowest in Japan and Taiwan. Countries such as Turkey, Egypt and Algeria ranked in the middle.
The findings from the "Global Study of Sexual Attitudes and Behaviors" appear in the April issue of the journal Archives of Sexual Behavior.

"Male-centered cultures where sexual behavior is more oriented toward procreation tend to discount the importance of sexual pleasure for women," lead author Edward Laumann, the George Herbert Meade Distinguished Service Professor in Sociology at the University of Chicago, said in a prepared statement.
But in relationships based on equality, couples are more likely to have sexual habits that meet both partners' needs, he noted.

The study findings include:
* In Western nations, two-thirds of men and women reported satisfaction with their sexual relationships and 80 percent said they were satisfied with their ability to have sex. About half of men and one third of women said sex was extremely or very important in their lives.
* In East Asian countries, about one quarter of men and women said they were satisfied with their sex lives, while two-thirds of the men and half of the women reported satisfaction with their ability to have sex. Twenty-eight percent of men and 12 percent of women said sex was important to them.
* In the Middle East, 50 percent of men and 38 percent of women said they had satisfying sex lives and about 70 percent said they were satisfied with their ability to have sex. Sixty percent of men and 37 percent of women said sex was important to them.


Source : Forbes

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Doing A Safer Sex

There are ways to make it much safer and protect yourself from the risk of contracting HIV when you are having sex. It it is important to be able to talk about sex. It can be uncomfortable to have direct conversations about sex, but it does get easier if you are confident about your facts. Good communication is important, with friends, health care providers, parents/family, and your boyfriend or girlfriend.

To make yourself "safe" from HIV infection, you should avoid contact with certain bodily fluids, namely blood, vaginal secretions, and semen (including pre-cum). Small, vulnerable cuts and sores exist all over your body, especially on the penis and inside the mouth, vagina and anus, where skin is very delicate. You need a physical barrier between your body and your partner's bodily fluids to protect you and your partner from infection. Means that, before you take your clothes off (even for oral sex), reach for the right protection.

Use condoms for vaginal and anal penetration, as well as oral sex with a penis. Condoms should be made of latex or polyurethane. Animal tissue condoms do not provide adequate protection against HIV.
Using Female condoms if available in your area, this kind of protection is effective way to protect against HIV during vaginal penetration.
Use a dental dam, a latex or polyurethane square, for oral-genital or oral-anal sex.

Other ways to be intimate without putting you or your partner at risk is masturbating together (keeping your fluids to yourself), massage, sex talk and touching each other are all safe. With such sex creativity, you can find other ways to pleasure your partner without putting either of you at risk.

If a couple is going to have sex, it's important for them to talk things over first. Discuss topics like their sexual boundaries and contraception so they can protect themselves against pregnancy and STDs. Try to :
a. discuss concerns, fears, safer sex choices
b. remember that being honest is being respectful
c. decide together what you are both comfortable doing

If your partner refuses to practice safer sex, you can always say NO. Whatever he or she says, there is never a valid reason to not protect yourself!

Remember! It is up to you to protect yourself in every sexual relationship. Just talking about safer sex is not enough - you have to practice it!

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Pussy Tanning Tricks

pussy tanning picPussy Tanning Tricks
how your vulva looks like.
Keep your labia minora closed so the inner skin doesn’t dry too much.
Unfortunately we have to remove this Pussy Tanning Tricks article because of some stupid jerk claimed it.

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Clit Piercings And Labia Rings

A clit or labia piercing—of the labia minora, majora or clitoris hood—is quite popular the last few years. Labia or clit like other types of body piercings, adding rings to the vulva.

Christina Aguilera clitoral hood and right nipple ring

Clit Piercings And Labia Rings Sorry we have to rame again this article because of some jerk ask for it!

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Women Say, One-Night Stands Are Immoral

OneResearch shows, women are apparently more sexually liberated than ever before - but most women still believe one-night stands are immoral. Forty years after the dawn of women's lib, British females judge friends and acquaintances who indulge in casual sex as being 'needy' and 'deviant'.
The study of women's attitudes towards sex revealed that women of all ages believe that sex outside marriage or a committed relationship is wrong. Those who have one-night stands do so out of desperation or drunkenness.

The findings, by psychologists from Sheffield University, fly in the face of image of the carefree, liberated 21st century woman portrayed in programmes such as Sex And The City.
The research follows an Amnesty International survey which found that many people believe that rape victim who has had lots of sexual partners is at least partly responsible for her predicament.

Researcher Dr Sharon Hinchliff asked 46 women aged 20 to 83 about their views on sex.
Ninety per cent thought casual sex was wrong and only 10 per cent admitted having a one night stand.
Women of all ages were judgmental of those who sleep around, with some of the younger women being harsher than the pensioners.

The women also had double-standards, with some of those who had had one night stands in the past saying it was wrong for others to do so.
One interviewee, a 60-year-old woman from Sheffield, said: "They always seem to be out to try to get some kind of sexual gratification and I don't believe it. I don't think they can really.
Dr Hinchliff, who found the women's attitudes 'shocking', said: "It doesn't fit in with the image we have got of today's independent women who can go out and have sexual freedom without the ties of a relationship.
"It seems much easier for men. The attitude is that it is a bit of bravado for men to sleep around, have many sexual partners and casual sex.
"Women are meant to have had sexual freedom from the Sixties. Now it seems we must question the degree of sexual freedom we have got."


Source : Daily Mail

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