Between , children in seven countries in sub-Saharan Africa researched the causes and effects of teenage pregnancy in their communities. Children shared stories of rape on the way to market, abuse by schoolteachers, and large numbers of girls forced into transactional relationships due to extreme poverty and the high cost of schooling. The children discovered that when girls became pregnant, it was overwhelmingly as a result of sexual abuse by an adult, including school teachers.
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Try out PMC Labs and tell us what you think. Learn More. We explored the constructs and discourses to year-old men and women in England used in their accounts of oral sex during in-depth interviews. Among young men and women in the United Kingdom, for instance, a higher proportion agreed that men expect to be given oral sex i. In the United States and Canada, studies record more young men and women reporting experience of oral-penis than oral-vulva contact with a different-gender partner, both across their lifetime Fortenberry et al. Other studies indicate men may receive more frequent oral sex than young women; for example, an online survey with U. These disparities arise despite roughly similar proportions of young men and women in nationally-representative surveys reporting ever having experienced oral sex with a different-gender partner Chandra et al. Existing research offers some insights into understanding asymmetric patterns of oral sex between young men and women. Expectations about oral-vulva contact may vary according to relationship context: Recent studies have found U. In interviews with young women and men at two U.
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Story highlights Author Naomi Wolf says recent controversies reveal biased views toward women's bodies The Pussy Riot trial and Arab Spring protests showed women stripped of autonomy Women's bodies are battlegrounds used to wage culture wars, Wolf says It's scandalous when women take ownership of their own bodies, Wolf contends. It seems as if we are in a time of unprecedented struggle over the meaning of women's bodies and sexuality. Controversy is swirling about an American University professor who breast-fed a baby in class ; topless photos of Kate Middleton have been released ; and a Time magazine cover showing a mother breast-feeding her toddler sparked even more tittering in May. It is not just the breast that is contested: Pussy Riot, the punk band, was sentenced to two years in a Russian prison after a staged performance in which they did high kicks that showed too much of their bodies.
Girls as young as nine are seeking surgery on their genitals because they are distressed by its appearance, the Victoria Derbyshire show has been told. Dr Naomi Crouch, a leading adolescent gynaecologist, said she was concerned GPs were referring rising numbers of young girls who wanted an operation. Labiaplasty, as the surgery is known, involves the lips of the vagina being shortened or reshaped. The NHS says it should not be carried out on girls before they turn In , more than girls under 18 had labiaplasty on the NHS.
