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The past decade has seen a growing acceptance of homosexuality and same-sex relationships as part of a range of patterns of behaviour within our society. Psychologists talk about a spectrum of sexual orientation. At one extreme there are people who have never had a homosexual thought in their lives, while...
Britain now has one of the highest rates of teenage pregnancy in Western Europe. This has significant health and social consequences for our society and so the government has started to implement a two-fold national strategy for England over the next ten years: [1] To halve the rate of conceptions among...
My London medical practice has seen a huge rise in sexually transmitted infections (STIs) over the past few years. Genitourinary medicine clinics are struggling with the increasing workload and the Medical Society for the Study of Venereal Diseases is promoting training courses to help GPs cope. Despite well-funded Government initiatives,...
'Never before have adolescents been exposed to such relentless media pressure to have sex as early as possible ' (Dr Trevor Stammers, 1999). How do we support teenagers today who face incredible pressure from media,peers,and in relationships to become sexually active prematurely?Today 's teenagers are bombarded by media messages of...
Recent trends in adolescent sexual health in the United Kingdom are cause for concern. In England alone, almost 90,000 teenagers became pregnant in 1997. Slightly fewer than 7,700 of these girls were less than 16 years old, and about half had abortions.[1] In 1995-7, the rate of increase in gonorrhoea...
'His addiction to pornography destroyed our marriage.' 'My three year old daughter was raped and violated in every way you can imagine by a twelve year old boy addicted to pornography.' 'My addiction has lasted for 25 years, and has robbed me of my self worth.'[1] These dramatic comments have...
This is one reason that I am unashamedly pro sex-education. In 1995 I went from full-time to part-time practice as a GP, and am now helping to develop a variety of parent-friendly materials including books, training courses, videos - and most recently a CD-ROM, on various aspects of family life,...
A harmless habit? William Bates is a histopathologist at Tygerberg Hospital near Cape Town, South Africa. He was also the editor of the 'CMF News of South Africa'. The Dionysius Dialogues by Peter Saunders are both interesting and well written with numerous biblical verses to support the views expressed. I am...
How far is too far? Nitpickerus: Dionysius, in our last discussion you argued that God teaches there is to be no sex except in the context of a lifelong, monogamous relationship between a man and a woman. Dionysius: That's right. No sex outside marriage. Nitpickerus: So how far can unmarried adults...
What is marriage? Nitpickerus: Dionysius, at the end of our last discussion you implied that unwanted pregnancy and sexual immorality were related. Dionysius: Yes. Usually unwanted pregnancy results from the kind of sex God forbids, sex outside marriage. Nitpickerus: But doesn't that depend on how you define marriage? Dionysius: Then let's...
