You will prepare and submit a term paper on Teen Sex Prevention. Your paper should be a minimum of 1500 words in length.

You will prepare and submit a term paper on Teen Sex Prevention. Your paper should be a minimum of 1500 words in length. It is unrealistic to expect that teens taught to abstain would actually abstain from sexual activity.&nbsp. Teens are exposed to sexual activity and sexual stimuli on a daily basis, particularly with advanced technology and the high use of the internet and access to multi-media applications and videos with a sexually explicit material.&nbsp. Our study also shows that children can also be exposed to sex by force.&nbsp. Our study revealed that 16% of the respondents had been exposed to sex via sexual assault or inappropriate touching.

Indeed it appears that our youth are becoming sexually active at an early age.&nbsp. Our study involved teens between the ages of 13 and 15 and one-third of the girls in our sample reported in our pretests that they were sexually active.&nbsp. 45 % of the boys in our study reported being sexually active. It, therefore, follows that programs need to take account that for a large number of teens in today’s world are already sexually active and thus programs cannot realistically expect to be effective if they focus only on abstinence.&nbsp. At the same time, it does not appear to be appropriate to simply teach teens to use contraceptives.&nbsp.

The more balanced approach would, therefore, be to teach teens that abstinence is the best way to safeguard against the contraction and spread of disease and unwanted pregnancies.&nbsp. However, if they do make the decision to engage in sexual intercourse, it is highly recommended that they use protection to reduce the risks of disease and pregnancies. This approach appears to be more responsive to the reality of teen life today.

Our program seeks to intervene at a time when teens are approaching puberty or have just matured and are not quite out of adolescence and have engaged in sexual activities or are sexually active.&nbsp. Our program also seeks to prevent sexual promiscuity or activities, or unsafe sexual activity among young teens who are not sexually active or have not yet experimented with sex. We believe that it is at this time (between ages 13 and 15) that teens are more vulnerable to peer pressure and are more curious about sex and their changing bodies.&nbsp.