Background: Over the last three decades, China has undergone profound socioeconomic transformations and opening to the outside world. These transformations have induced significant changes and variations in sexual norms and behaviors and in the social context of sexual partnering. Age at marriage is increasing; premarital and extramarital sex are becoming increasingly common; and the demand and...

parts of books not in the Hebrew canon and in many Protestant Bibles. For an explanation of this see, e.g., the preface of The Revised Standard Version Common Bible (RSV). 2. "This affirmation about the inspiration of the OT, cf. 2 P 1:21, probably includes some Christian writings also.", NJB, p. 1967, note 3e. [This chapter is from the book, Premarital Sex and Love: In the Light of Human Exper...

Adolescence is an important period for the formation of health behaviors. However, data showed that more than 20% adolescents in Indonesia ever carried out risky behaviors towards their health. The majority include smoking, drinking alcohol, having premarital sex and drug abuse. aim study was to determine effectiveness journaling technique interventions (writing journals) positive adolescents. ...

BACKGROUND Premarital sexual behaviors are important issue for women's health. The present study was designed to develop and examine the psychometric properties of a scale in order to identify young women who are at greater risk of premarital sexual behavior. METHOD This was an exploratory mixed method investigation. Indeed, the study was conducted in two phases. In the first phase, qualitati...

Premarital sexual behavior is related to urges with the opposite sex or same that carried out before existence of a legal marriage bond. WHO states in developing countries 21 million adolescent girls aged 15-19 years experience pregnancy each year and 49% pregnancies are unwanted. The IDHS (2017) adolescents 15-24 holding hands: Women 64% Men 75%, Kissing lips: 30% 50%, Hugging: 17% 33%, likes ...

BACKGROUND Premarital counseling equips couples with information about all aspects of sexuality and the related health issues. This study was aimed to assess the quality of premarital counseling services in health care centers in Tabriz. METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted on 236 randomly selected women from premarital counseling centers in Tabriz was carried out and a self-structur...

Research on African societies documents the magnitude of the AIDS epidemic, and shows that at younger ages women are more likely to be affected than men. Young African women are particularly vulnerable to HIV infection because sexual relations with men are an important means to achieve social and economic status, and for some women they are necessary for survival. Many African adolescents and y...

Cohabitation and marriage in the United States are converging relationships for those cohabiters who eventually marry. Using the “National Survey of Families and Households” and the “National Survey of Family Growth” as data sources, this dissertation examines trends over time in cohabitation and the types of people who cohabit before marriage, differences in behavior across relationship stages...

The absence of systematic sex education in schools would seem to be a transfer from the tendency among parents to shy away from answering questions about sex and procreation which young people ask. The prevalence of indulgence in premarital sex or unsafe sexual behaviours by secondary school students who are mostly adolescents has attracted growing concerns from all stakeholders. These unsafe s...