Word: behavior
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EVEN IF FUNDS for education were adequate, we need to become more sophisticated in our educational approaches. As the history of sexually transmitted diseases shows us, altering behavior is no simple matter. The underlying assumption about behavior, deeply ingrained in our culture, is that it is merely voluntary. According to this logic, once appropriately informed about risks, individuals "should" modify their behaviors...
...behavior is not always subject to rational control, as highlighted by the problem of intravenous drug addiction. Sexuality is a powerful force, certainly subject to individual will, but not completely...
...know little about how to assist individuals who seek to make and maintain difficult behavioral alterations. This is as true for sexual behavior as it is for the problem of drug addiction, the two principal mechanisms for the transmission of the AIDS virus...
AIDS will require a serious reevaluation of our values and attitudes concerning sexuality, behavior and disease. The time has come to begin to devise appropriate educational policies to address complex issues raised by this tragic epidemic. Educational programs at all levels, from elementary schools to colleges, must be developed. The necessity of a creative, coordinated and vigorously funded educational response to the AIDS crisis is long overdue...
Actually Karl, who sports a small hoop earing and a scruffy reddish-brown beard, is a 21-year old guitar student at the Berklee School of Music. He says he gets a kick out of playing up to late night visitors who expect bizarre behavior from a diner cook. "Sometimes I practice my expressions before a mirror," he jokes...