Nonconsensual Sex Undermines Sexual Health. Kim Best.
by Best, Kim; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2006Article 73Human Relations. Publisher: NETWORK Family Health International, 2005ISSN: 1522-3248;.Subject(s): Child sexual abuse | Hygiene -- Sexual | Reproductive health | Sex customs | Sexual abuse victims | Sexual consent | Sexual intercourse | Sexually transmitted diseases -- Risk factors | Social surveysDDC classification: 050 Summary: "Often and by a variety of means, children, adolescents, and adults--men and women alike--are pressured to have sexual relations that they do not want. Too commonly, the behavior of perpetrators, thoroughly interwoven into long-standing traditions and customs, is condoned. Meanwhile, the stigma that many victims face plunges them into a resigned silence that hinders them from getting help and masks the scope of the problem." (NETWORK FAMILY HEALTH INTERNATIONAL) The author examines how "nonconsensual sex may underlie some of the most tenacious and often life-threatening reproductive health problems of the time."| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: Nonconsensual Sex Undermines Sexual Health, No. 4, 2005; pp. 3+.
"Often and by a variety of means, children, adolescents, and adults--men and women alike--are pressured to have sexual relations that they do not want. Too commonly, the behavior of perpetrators, thoroughly interwoven into long-standing traditions and customs, is condoned. Meanwhile, the stigma that many victims face plunges them into a resigned silence that hinders them from getting help and masks the scope of the problem." (NETWORK FAMILY HEALTH INTERNATIONAL) The author examines how "nonconsensual sex may underlie some of the most tenacious and often life-threatening reproductive health problems of the time."
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