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Condom Dissemination in High School

Teens today live in a world that is much different than the society inhabited by their grandparents. Changes in family values, greater access and portrayal of sexual imagery, and other factors have challenged todayÆs teenagers with even greater pressure for sexual experimentation. As Kmietowicz (1354) maintains, ôThe move away from traditional family values points to a socio-sexual transformation where sexual imagery permeates all aspects of life and teenagers are under greater pressure to experiment with sex.ö If statistics are to be believed, that is exactly what many teens in the U.S. and U.K. are doing. Unfortunately, many of them fail to engage in safe sex using some form of birth control such as the pill or condoms. According to the British Medical Journal, the U.S. and U.K. have the highest teen pregnancy rates in the world, ô52 out of every 1000 girls aged between 15 and 19 in the U.S. have birth, while the U.K. topped the list in Europe with just over 30 births in 1000 teenagersö (Kmietowicz 1354). For these and a variety of other reasons, teenagers must be provided with comprehensive sex education programs in high school that include the availability of condoms.

Once adolescents experience puberty, there are a variety of physical and psychological changes that impact their lives. Perhaps the most challenging of these is the development of secondary sex characteristics and an increased desire for sexual experimentation. Many teens between the ages of 14-19 are unprepared to deal with sexual exploration in a safe manner. Other teens are more at-risk for engaging in risky sexual behavior because they come from broken, poor or violent backgrounds. As reported in NationÆs Health, many boys from inner-cities react negatively when they perceive themselves as responsible for risky behavior, ôBoys face violence, poverty, absent fathers, a lack of school success, hope

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