Academic literature on the topic 'Irresponsible sexual behavior'

Social media, a virtual form of interaction, having the qualities of real, connects the users to sharing and broadcasting their views in online. As the media is a tool, its success mostly depends upon how the users use pictures and messages which are interesting to them. Today social media is mostly useful to adolescents for creating awareness of political and cultural issues, and world happenings, giving chance to expand social relationships, making social confidence, heightening literacy, using to get social support from online friends, and helping to develop their motor skills and co-ordination, etc. The negative influence of social media is influencing violence where adolescents are unable to distinguish between reality and fantasy, lead to irresponsible sexual behaviour, fall prey to the idea of commercialization of happiness, divert the mind from concentrating on their studies, etc. This study mainly concentrates on how social media affects the social and psychological behaviours of adolescents, especially users who are having different social and cultural backgrounds. The data for the study is collected from the social media network adolescent users, especially from Tamilnadu, India along with the reference materials connected to the study.

University students' immoral behavior encompasses unethical misconduct, drug abuse, alcoholism, and irresponsible sexual behavior. Deviant behaviors in institutions of higher learning are linked to parental and family influence. This paper provides insights into the issues of deviant behavior among bachelor-level students in Kenya and how family influences such behavior. In Kenya, misconduct cases in institutions of higher learning are not new because factions of university students tend to believe that they can affirm their freedom through immorality. With such concerns, there is a need to establish the reason for deviant behavior among bachelor-level students and how family influence can be tailored to ensure that university students embrace acceptable behavior. This study adopted a descriptive survey design. The target population was 16,421 university students selected from universities in Nairobi County. Using Yamen’s sample size calculation formula, the sample size was determined as 390, but only 372 students were available in the four selected universities’ main campuses and willing to receive the questionnaire. The study revealed that 53% of the students perceived moral breakdown in the family influences young people’s adherence to negative moral values. A good number of the students, 46.02%, suggested that immoral behavior of parents/guardians and unfriendly upbringing influence deviant behavior among youth. Therefore, the study recommends that parents and guardians model the moral values they wish to see in their children and take the initial role of guiding their children on moral values. Christian-based programs can help university students deviate from deviant behaviors, and public education should be instituted to encourage youth to realize their self-value.

Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is a revolutionary public health strategy to prevent HIV infection but comes with a significant personal and structural surveillance regime. Using interview data with gay, bi, and queer men on PrEP, field notes, and document analysis, we discuss the individual and institutional practices that produce what we call PrEP citizenship. Drawing on the concept of biosexual citizenship, we show how PrEP citizenship involves surveillance for compliance with use and behavioral guidelines, expanding the PrEP population, and allocating community resources to PrEP users over non-PrEP users. On the individual level, users surveil themselves and others for proper use and sexual behavior, identify nonusers and evangelize PrEP use to them, and stigmatize non-PrEP users as irresponsible, immoral, and potentially infectious. Similarly, on the institutional level, public health, medical authorities, and sexual community infrastructure work to ensure PrEP users remain adherent, increase the user base, and grant material and symbolic resources to PrEP users. PrEP citizenship has implications for the role of the co-production of surveillance in conceptions of biosexual citizenship.

This article presents the results of a study on the acceptability of emergency contraception (EC) in Brazil, Chile, and Mexico. Opinions of potential users and possible providers were obtained through discussion groups and those of authorities and policy-makers through semi-structured interviews. Most participants had a positive opinion of EC, based on the view that it can help reduce unplanned pregnancy, adolescent pregnancy, and unsafe abortion. Several interviewees felt that all women should be informed about EC, while others viewed it as a method for special situations such as rape and unprotected first sexual intercourse. Concern was expressed that its introduction might be associated with a decrease in condom use, increase in sexually transmitted diseases, and irresponsible or promiscuous sexual behavior among adolescents. The need for EC was clearly perceived by most participants, leading to the conclusion that health authorities have the responsibility of implementing programs for its introduction. Training of health care personnel should include the discussion of reproductive health problems that could be prevented by EC.