| Dear friend,There’s a running theme lately in new studies done on teen sexual health: Across the board, from side effects of birth control, to sexually transmitted infections (STIs), to the mental health impacts of sex, the risks for sexually active teens seem almost universally higher than they are for adults. This week, we’re taking a closer look at the birth control side effects that seem particularly dire for teens, and why STIs are also more prevalent and serious during the teen years. As we discuss in these latest installments in our Teens and Sex series (as well as the prior three, which can be found ici), our teens deserve so much better than the knee-jerk assumption that they have no self-control and are simply “going to do it, anyway.” By empowering teens with authentic body literacy and a deep sense of their inherent dignity and worth, we can do a much better job of helping them safeguard their bodies, minds, and hearts into adulthood. Appel à l'action: Our Mothers of (Pre)Teens online, parent-led, body literacy course is pas a sex-ed course. In fact, you can think of the Mothers of (Pre)Teens course as “the anti-sex-ed course” in that it pretty much does the opposite of what most middle- and high-school sex-ed classes do (which, as we all know, mainly focus on pregnancy prevention while teaching little-to-nothing about the biology and dignity of the human body and the gift of fertility). Get your gift-giving taken care of early this year, and check both a mother AND a daughter off your Christmas list by purchasing a subscription to Cours en ligne de Natural Womanhood pour les mères de (pré)adolescents for them today! Le meilleur, Grâce P.s.: Did you see the message from our CEO this past Friday about what the world thinks of womanhood? If you missed it, you can read it, ici. And be sure to stay tuned for more in this series of emails where we’re unpacking the ways the world gets womanhood wrong—and, more importantly, what Natural Womanhood is doing to get it right, and how vous peut aider. Grace Emily Stark Éditeur La féminité naturelle |
| Les adolescents et le sexe : Pourquoi les infections sexuellement transmissibles font-elles plus de ravages chez les adolescents que chez les adultes ? Although sexually transmitted infection prevention programs for teens focus heavily on promoting condom use, the CDC’s Youth Risk Behavior (YRB) survey found that less than half of sexually active high school students used a condom the last time they had sex. But does condom use (or lack thereof) really tell the whole story? Why are 15–24 year olds bearing so much of the burden of STDs in the United States? Cliquez ici pour lire l'article complet. |
| Teens and sex: Why birth control risks and side effects can be especially bad for teensMany girls choose to take birth control for reasons other than preventing pregnancy, such as for painful and irregular periods or in order to take acne medication like Accutane. But what these young women don’t know could hurt them— teens may be at higher risk than adult women of experiencing birth control side effects. Cliquez ici pour lire l'article complet. |