Word: sexuality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Congressionally chartered National Research Council--are a welcome dissenting voice from a government that has failed to respond adequately to the AIDS epidemic and to an equally alarming epidemic of teen pregnancy. As an author of the AIDS study commented, there is "very little knowledge about sexual practices...
Education about sexual behavior among those at risk for AIDS works. A precipitous fall--on the order of 75 percent--in the rate of venereal infection among homosexual men in some urban areas has shown the efficacy of education for behavioral change. Examples like that bode well for an education effort to address the fact that teenage girls in the U.S. are five times more likely to get pregnant than those in other countries, and that 60 percent of Black children are born out of wedlock. Studies of programs in schools show that neither distributing contraceptives nor educating teens about...
...easy during her 16-year tenure here: the University refused to give Hamilton, an assistant professor of medicine, free football tickets, admission to the Faculty Club and the benefit of a first name--she was referred to officially as only "A. Hamilton," so as not to divulge her sexual identity...
Priority must be given to stopping these pregnancies through sex education and contraception, followed by programs to encourage youths to delay sexual initiation and assume more responsibility for their actions...
...Aulenti. In the U.S., where no woman architect has ever had such a commission and only one major museum (the Philadelphia Museum of Art) has a woman director, this would have been seen as a major feminist victory. The French press hardly commented on it: a real meritocracy takes sexual equality for granted...