Tuesday, December 13, 2011

13-12-11 News Highlights

Sex Education for 10 years old kids in South Africa

Children as young as 10 could be taught about safe sex in South African schools as the country battles to contain pre-teen pregnancy and HIV infection, the department of health said on Monday.
Health and education officials are scratching their heads over when kids are old enough to hear about the birds and the bees in an education plan due next year.
"Is 10 too early or too late? We want to start as early as possible," said education ministry spokeswoman Hope Mokgatlhe.
A health ministry report on HIV infection among pregnant women published last week showed an increase in infections among young girls aged 10-14 in 2010. Almost 10 percent of the 121 future young mothers carried the virus.
"A number of young kids are falling pregnant, kids as young as 11 to 12, contracting sexually-transmitted diseases," health ministry spokesman Fidel Hadebe told AFP.

Men Are Not Sex Crazed After All : New Study

Everyone knows the old urban legend that men think about sex every minute of the day, but now that appears to have been debunked. Men are not so sex crazed after all, say researchers from Ohio State University.

Their research appears to discredit the persistent stereotype that men think about sex every seven seconds, which would amount to more than 8,000 thoughts about sex in 16 waking hours. In fact, over the course of their study, the median number of young men's thoughts about sex stood at under 19 times per day. Young women in the study reported a median of nearly 10 thoughts about sex per day.

Their study, which is scheduled for publication in the January 2012 issue of the Journal of Sex Research compares163 female and 120 male college students between the ages of 18 and 25 who were enrolled in a psychology research participation program. Of those, 59 were randomly assigned to track thoughts about food, 61 about sleep and 163 about sex. Most students were white and self-identified as heterosexual. The college-student sample made it comparable to previous research and involved an age group at which gender differences in sexuality are likely at their peak.

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