Sexuality, contraception and unsafe sexual behavior in adolescents

Sexuality and Contraception

• Surprisingly, research rarely considers how contraception affects sex for women. Some studies do explore how contraceptive methods (especially combined oral contraceptives [COCs]) influence sexual experience. During COC use, some women experience a decreased interest in sex, although whether COCs cause that decrease remains unclear. Other women experience increases in sexual desire and enjoym...

Sexual Webs Model for the Explanation of Unsafe Sexual Behavior: Knitting all the Perspectives of Unsafe Sexual Behavior

Whereas the contribution of unsafe sexual behaviors to global disease burden is not contentious, there are divergent perspectives of unsafe sexual act or practices. The different perspectives can be identified within the research traditions of Scholars in Public Health, Cognitive Psychology, Sociology and Political Economy. The challenge therefore had been in constructing an explanatory model t...

Subsidized Contraception, Fertility, and Sexual Behavior.

We examine the impact of recent state-level Medicaid policy changes that expanded eligibility for family planning services to higher-income women and to Medicaid clients whose benefits would expire otherwise. We show that the income-based policy change reduced overall births to non-teens by about 2% and to teens by over 4%; estimates suggest a decline of 9% among newly eligible women. The reduc...

ERICA: sexual initiation and contraception in Brazilian adolescents.

OBJECTIVE To estimate the prevalence of sexual initiation and contraceptive use at the last sexual intercourse of Brazilian adolescents, according to sociodemographic features. METHODS The data were obtained from the Study of Cardiovascular Risks in Adolescents (ERICA), a national school-based cross-sectional study. We included 74,589 adolescents from 32 geographic strata (27 capitals and five ...

Health, Risk-Taking Behavior and Sexuality in Swedish Adolescents