Human Sexuality and Adolescence

Human Sexuality and Adolescence

1 National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Jerusalem, Israel 2 Health Services, Division for Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, Ministry of Social Affairs and Social Services, Jerusalem, Israel 3 Division of Pediatrics, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel 4 Division of Adolescent Medicine, Kentucky Children’s Hospital, University of Kentucky, ...

[Adolescents' knowledge about adolescence, puberty and sexuality].

OBJECTIVE The objective of this research was to evaluate the level of knowledge about adolescence, pubertal development and sexuality among adolescents from 10 to 14 years old at municipal public schools in Feira de Santana-Bahia, 2000. METHODS Cross-sectional study, with a randomized and proportional sample out of a population of 6,419 students in the municipal Public System. The level of kn...

Sexuality Development in Adolescence and Beyond Commentary on Arbeit

In her article on adolescent sexuality development, Miriam Arbeit [this issue] conceptualizes adolescent sexuality as a realm of desire, pleasure, and social development, raising issues of negotiation, empowerment, ethics, and identity. This is quite different from the standard approach that classifies adolescent sexuality as a type of “risk taking” and then explains it in terms of a special ad...

Human Sexuality

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Sexuality, health, and human rights.