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Misconceptions about sexual health abound.(FYI)(Brief article)
One-quarter of e-mail queries about sexual health submitted to a Web site about emergency contraception in 2003-2004 reflected misconceptions about a variety of issues. (1) Content analysis identified five main categories of confusion: sexual acts that can lead to pregnancy, what it means to have unprotected sex, the signs and timing of pregnancy; risks associated with emergency contraception and how emergency contraception differs from medication abortion. The researchers speculate that one source of the confusion is abstinence-only sex education curricula, which withhold important information from teenagers and sometimes ...
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