Sexual Abstinence

Health Check: is it normal not to want sex? (UNSW - The University of New South Wales)

Edit Public Technologies 30 May 2016

Many people aren't interested in having sex or don't feel sexual attraction to other people, loosely termed as asexuality ... Refusers are likely to be less sexually liberal in their attitudes and also younger ... They can go for days, weeks, months or even years without sex, whereas others are irritable, distracted and unhappy after even a few days of sexual abstinence; 'biting the walls', a colleague of mine once called it....

Holy Hell review – first-person journey into when a community turns into a cult

Edit The Guardian 27 May 2016

3 / 5 stars. Film’s unrivaled access takes us inside the inner workings of a cult like never before to reveal a group that’s far more complex than you might expect. @jhoffman ... Related ... That in addition to being one of many masseurs to the Teacher and eventually – he alleges – a victim of sexual abuse ... Despite the decree of sexual abstinence, he accuses Andreas of sexually abusing him during their private hypnosis sessions ... ....

Haslam allows UT diversity funding bill to become law without his signature

Edit Commercial Appeal 20 May 2016

NASHVILLE — Gov ... He becomes Washington's vice president for the office of minority affairs and diversity and chief diversity officer ... Republican lawmakers denounced the first Sex Week in 2013, a wide-ranging set of events, programs and discussion panels — some with salacious titles — on sexuality, preventing sexual assaults and sexually transmitted diseases and other topics, including sexual abstinence ... Rep ... Rep ... ....

Transgender Is Superstitious Belief

Edit Opposing Views 17 May 2016

Princeton Professor Robert P ... According to Breitbart, George tweeted on May 15. ... But in the Age of Feeling..." ... Vouchers!" ... These children suffer from gender dysphoria ... On their "About Us" web page, the American College of Pediatricians supports "sexual abstinence until marriage," "two-parent, father-mother family unit" (not same-sex couples), and "human life from the time of conception to natural death" (no abortion). ....

How Purity Pledges Lead to Unintended Pregnancies and STDs

Edit The Oklahoman 15 May 2016

Teen birth and pregnancy rates have been in a free fall, and there are a fewcommonly held explanations why ... As of 2002, about one in eight teens, or 12 percent, pledged to be sexually abstinent until marriage ... Read more from The Atlantic . ....

The Uncoordinated Orchestra - Malawi's Circumcision Conundrum

Edit All Africa 12 May 2016

[Nyasa Times] For 33 years now, Reverend Levi Nyondo, as God's anointed 'shepherd,' has watched HIV/AIDS decimate his 'sheep.' Although his homilies have urged sexual abstinence and fidelity, which should slow spread of the disease, he grudgingly admits that the heavy loss of his parishioners to the pandemic is a clear sign that these messages are falling on deaf ears ... ....

Purity Pledges Have an Unfortunate Connection to Unwanted Pregnancies

Edit Alternet 11 May 2016

The pledge , “Believing that true love waits, I make a commitment to God, myself, my family, my friends, my future mate, and my future children to a lifetime of purity including sexual abstinence from this day until the day I enter a Biblical marriage relationship.” ... “Abstinence-only sex education policy is widespread at the state and local levels ......

Are you scared of marriage?

Edit Graphic 06 May 2016

Sexual Abstinence ... Abstinence is rather a test of discipline which differentiates people who just want fun in a relationship from those who are committed to marriage ... If it were, some people would not later abandon their spouses or fiancées despite the sexual satisfaction they receive ... Closeness, including sexual intimacy, helps to protect and strengthen the marriage....

The Unintended Consequences of Purity Pledges

Edit The Atlantic 04 May 2016

As of 2002, about one in eight teens, or 12 percent, pledged to be sexually abstinent until marriage ... “Abstinence-only sex ... “I make a commitment to God, myself, my family, my friends, my future mate, and my future children to a lifetime of purity including sexual abstinence from this day until the day I enter a Biblical marriage relationship.” ....

Unsurprisingly, Study Shows Promoting Abstinence Doesn’t Prevent HIV Transmission

Edit Newsweek 03 May 2016

has invested some $1.4 billion worldwide on programs aimed to promote sexual abstinence and fidelity since 2004 ... Based on their findings, the authors of the study argue that the funding still dedicated to abstinence education programs would be more effectively applied to education on other critical sexual health topics that would save more lives and greatly reduce rates of unwanted pregnancies....

Promoting abstinence, fidelity for HIV prevention is ineffective, study finds

Edit Science Daily 03 May 2016

The US government has invested $1.4 billion in HIV prevention programs that promote sexual abstinence and marital fidelity, but there is no evidence that these programs have been effective at changing sexual behavior and reducing HIV risk, according to a new study ... ....

The Running Hare: The Secret Life of Farmland by John Lewis-Stempel – review

Edit The Guardian 01 May 2016

The environmentalist’s account of the year he spent restoring wildlife to a field is enlightening and stylish ... “I have had a gut’s-ful of chemical farming,” he says ... he buys an antique seed fiddle on eBay for £150 and cuts his wheat into sheaves rather than bales ... I had no idea that traditionally in the countryside sexual abstinence prevailed from Advent till Candlemas (2 February) in order to avoid heavy pregnancies at harvest time ... ....

How Beyoncé's Lemonade became a pop culture phenomenon

Edit The Guardian 26 Apr 2016

... cars) and smashes the window of a spa advertising “free facials” with a straight-haired wig in the window – after “failing” to purify herself by causing herself pain (she refers to fasting, sexual abstinence, self-enforced silence, sleeping on the floor, self-flagellation, bathing in bleach and using pages of the Bible to “plug” her “menses”)....