Ambiguous definitions concerning which behaviors constitute sex, abstinence, and virginity may lead to arbitrary interpretations of meaning or miscommunication, which could be particularly problematic in health care, educational, and research contexts. The purpose of this study was to examine and compare ...
Decision-making around sexual abstinence is found to be value-laden, bound up in the meaning and value the participants attach to sex and sexual relationships, values and ideology surrounding marriage, as well as religious values and moral codes. Adolescent sexual decision-making is found to be ...
Virginity Lost Very few studies have explicitly examined the meaning in loss of virginity. Generally speaking, these studies have focused on heterosexuals and have not extended beyond the 1980s. Filling an important gap in the literature on the transition to adulthood, Carpenter draws from ...
Nimechill (meaning "I have chilled" or "I am abstaining") is an abstinence promotion mass media campaign. This study identifies perceptions that influence abstinence in urban 10-14 year olds evaluates Nimechills effectiveness in changing those perceptions and abstinence levels over a seven month ...