Teens are not having sex earlier and married people enjoy more sex, according to a major study across 59 countries. Some of findings in The Lancet, a British Medical journal, as summarised by the BBC.
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On Friday, 18 August 2006, On Friday, Lewis told the International Aids conference in Toronto, Canada, that SA could "never achieve redemption" for its HIV/Aids policies as 600 to 800 people a day died of Aids in SA.
Lewis said what the government was doing was "wrong, immoral and indefensible". As part of the defense the Health Dept said: "more 340 million male condoms and close to 3 million female condoms are distributed each year free of charge" (Sunday Times, 19 August 2006)
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Winnie Madikizela-Mandela has come out firmly and vehemently in favour of sexual abstinence as the only efficient way to fight the spread of Aids. "We just have to tell our children to abstain", she told a panel discussion at the International Conference on Aids and Sexually Transmittted Infections in Africa (Icasa) in Abuja, Nigeria. (9 December, News24) |
South Africa's `Business Day' reported on 22 February 2005 that "RELIGIOUS groups dug in their heels yesterday, saying they would not “actively promote” the use of condoms, but instead would focus on encouraging sexual abstinence and faithfulness to one’s partner."
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In an international article by Reuters, 10 December 2004, it was reported that TLW has had a great influence in Uganda society. |
Drugs such as Methamphetamine boosts then destroys sex |
"Condoms are a technical, medicalised, typically Western answer to a much deeper human problem. Condoms may save the day for now, but they don't change lifestyles. And currently it is lifestyles, even more than Aids, that are destroying our people. Have faithful sex within stable partnerships and the virus would disappear." Opinion, The Witness, 6 August 2004
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It’s overlooked, ignored, shoved aside. These days it’s all physical... |
Before what has now become known as the ‘flower’ era of the 1960’s, abstinence before marriage was normal. |
Developmental psychologist Tom Lickona explains good character as a composite of moral knowing, moral feeling and moral acting. |
"I’m a 14-year-old high school student and my boyfriend is a 16-year-old high school student. A few days ago I went to a school dance, and we left the dance and got really physical... |
xtramarital sex can increase your risk of having a heart attack, a British cardiologist has told a congress on sexual health in the German city of Hamburg. |
There’s a right way and a wrong way to get something done. A lot of it has to do with timing. |
All of us want and need friendships. Early friends teach us many needed skills for future relationships. For example, we learn to share, understand someone else’s feelings, communicate and practice making and keeping friendships. Because these friendships teach us so much and are so essential to our happiness it is important to focus on having genuine and lasting friendships. |
Throughout our lives there are countless influences that affect our values, our goals, our development as human beings. The media influences us through television, movies, books, songs and advertising, while individuals such as family and friends also have a powerful effect on our choices and personal growth. |
Some teens are taking unnecessary risks by having sex and using drugs. |
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Do you feel that abstinence is actually a cruel way of restricting you pleasure for no reason? What about STDs and even AIDS? |
In a special scientific review led by HHS' National Institutes of Health, it was found that there is insufficient evidence to determine the effectiveness of condoms in use for preventing most sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). |
