Myths And Facts About Sexual Assault
Research shows that teens who choose to be sexually active average 4 partners each. Here’s a chart of information from the Centers for Disease Control about exposure and risk of sexually transmitted infections. When you have sex with a person, you are exposed to everyone they’ve had sex with in the past 10 years. "The pill is one of the most studied medicines of all time," Johnsen said.
Sexual offenders are “ordinary” and “normal” individuals who come from all educational, occupational, racial, and cultural backgrounds. This myth exemplifies our cultural tendency to blame victims – it is not the case that victims are assaulted because they failed to spot an obvious perpetrator. Male rape only happens in prison, and is due to the lack of sexually available women. Many women falsely report rape as a means of revenge or to get attention.
Statistically, teen dads will never earn as much over their whole life as their peers do. So the reality is that a good dating relationship will be good without sex. According to the CDC, condoms fail between 3% and 18% of the time, depending on whether they are used correctly and consistently. So if you use them absolutely perfectly, they still have 3% failure.
There's a theory that women who spend a ton of time around each other, like roommates, coworkers, or best friends, will eventually have their menstrual cycles sync up so they occur at the same time. The first time a woman has sex, her hymen will break like "popping a cherry." And, of course, school isn't the only place former adolescents learned about sex, whether or not what they learned was true. Magazines, peers, TV shows, and movies spread plenty of misinformation as well. Sexual health education is a fairly youtube shorts recent development in the United States, with the first sex ed classes cropping up in schools in the 1960s, according to Planned Parenthood.
For many women, it’s also the beginning of a whole new adventure -- life without monthly hormonal swings and messy periods. The best way to deal with a sexual assault is to try to move on quickly. Someone can only be sexually assaulted if there is physical force or if a weapon is involved. Read the myths and facts about sexual abuse and domestic violence. People who commit sexual assaults are obviously creepy, abnormal perverts, or people who could be easily identified and avoided. Sexual assault is a violent attack on an individual, not a spontaneous crime of sexual passion.
Another favorite piece of sex lore is that women can’t get pregnant if they have sex while on their period. It’s true that this scenario is highly unlikely, but even so, the possibility of pregnancy isn’t fully eliminated. The best way to avoid getting pregnant is though abstinence. Abstinence is the only 100% effective form of birth control. If abstinence isn’t an option, using a condom in combination with a hormonal form of birth control is a close second.
The internet has changed how kids learn about sex, but sex ed in the classroom still sucks. In Sex Ed 2.0, Mashable explores the state of sex ed and imagines a future where digital innovations are used to teach consent, sex positivity, respect, and responsibility. The theory is that thanks to a blackout, a blizzard, a bomb scare, or some other factor that interrupts the lights and internet, people decide to entertain themselves in other ways. While this sounds like a fun plot to a rom-com, this is an urban legend, says S. Philip Morgan, a Duke professor of sociology and demography and author of a study looking at theeffects of these events on birth rates. The data simply don’t support the idea of a “blackout baby boom,” he says.