...I INTRODUCTION The Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health Act of 2012 (Republic Act No. 10354), informally known as the Reproductive Health Law or RH Bill, is a law in the Philippines, which guarantees universal access to methods on contraception, fertility control, sexual education, and maternal care. While there is general agreement about its provisions on maternal and child health, there is great debate on its mandate that the Philippine government and the private sector will fund and undertake widespread distribution of family planning devices such as condoms, birth control pills, and IUDs, as the government continues to disseminate information on their use through all health care centers. Passage of the legislation was controversial and highly divisive, with experts, academics, religious institutions, and major political figures declaring their support or opposition while it was pending in the legislature. Heated debates and rallies both supporting and opposing the RH Bill took place nationwide. The Supreme Court delayed implementation of the law in March 2013 in response to challenges. As of August 18 this delay was still in force "until further orders". REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE One of the most controversial issues confronting the Philippines today is about reproductive health. Many written materials and publications are available asserting about elements of reproductive health with different perspectives. Their ultimate goal is to improve...
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...Reproductive Health Bill IV. Background and Exposition The Reproductive Health Bill was first proposed in 1998 by Edcel Lagman of Albay. The said bill aims to improve and promote all methods of family planning, both natural and modern, to help our country’s dilemma regarding the continued growth of our population. The RH Bill gives information to family planning. It will improve maternal, infant and child health and nutrition. It promotes breast feeding. Then abortion will remain illegal and it is punishable by law but post-abortion complications will be given medical aid. It also contains prevention of reproductive tract infections like HIV/AIDS, STD, etc; treatment of breast and reproductive tract cancers, and prevention and treatment of infertility. It has elimination of violence against women and also education of sexuality and reproductive health. It includes male involvement and participation in the reproductive health and lastly education of reproductive health for the youth. For several reasons this bill has been an issue in our country for years. It has its pros and cons. Some say it is advantageous because it will really help in the country’s problem, the never ending growth of population that eventually leads to the country’s unchanging state of poverty. Some say it is a no no because of its very ill effects, immorality and sinful act. While, others have no idea what it is nor have any concern about what is happening around them which is really unfortunate. So...
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...Erectile Dysfunction Erectile dysfunction is one of the most common forms of male reproductive health problems. Most men do not discuss their erectile dysfunction, although if they would, they would discover that there are reasonable treatment options available that can enhance their relational life. Men were brought up with the misguided notion that real men didn’t have such issues. This is terribly misguided, and a lot of men experience erectile dysfunction at least once in their life. As researched erectile dysfunction can be caused by other health conditions, medication, or even psychological problems. The purpose of this paper is to critique the research on erectile dysfunction mentioned below. Critique of Research The National Kidney and Urologic Diseases Information Clearinghouse (NKUDIC) were the first pieces of literature researched on Erectile Dysfunction (ED). Stating that ED is usually associated with medical conditions physical and or psychological. The report gives information regarding what is ED and how ED occurs and how is it diagnosed, and treated. The information presented was consistent with other research on ED. Erectile dysfunction (ED) is defined when a man has trouble getting or keeping an erection. This definition is also consistent throughout the research reviewed. ED is said to be more common as men get older. But male sexual dysfunction is not a natural part of aging. This finding was not mentioned in any of the other literature reviewed....
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...Outline Notes Body Image: WOMEN * In a world obsessed with women’s bodies, we are bombarded with images of them, usually undressed, often in dehumanised pieces, at every turn. But though we see women’s bodies everywhere, it’s only really one body that we’re seeing, over and over again. Usually a young, thin, white, toned, large-breasted, long-legged, non-disabled body. * Unrealistic media ideals of female beauty have spawned a multitude of “body confidence” campaigns * A recent report by the All Party Parliamentary Group on Body Image found that girls as young as five are worrying about their size and appearance, and that one in four seven-year-old girls have tried to lose weight at least once. And, as the BSA survey results show, a preoccupation with body image affects women throughout their lives, not just in their youth. It holds women back by eroding their confidence both at work and socially. MEN BODY IMAGE * Men are also given the 'perfection' blueprint. They should be strong, muscular, show no emotion. * They are told constantly to "Man Up" and to "Be a Man." The size of a man's penis is constantly bought up in many a conversation between girlfriends over lunch, much like his performance in the bedroom. Men Models: abbs, toned, oiled, glossy bodies. * Tend to hit the gym more, buling up and gaining becomes the issue. And things like sterioids. * Some of you ladies reading this may scoff and roll your eyes, thinking "Welcome to my life...
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...choices about which resources to use. We do not endorse the resources on this list. The questions in the box below can help to choose and use a resource that will contribute to good quality sex and relationships education. Choosing a resource Is the resource consistent with the values set out in the school or college SRE policy? Is it factually correct and up-to-date? Does it encourage active and participatory learning? Is the resource contemporary in terms of the realities of young people’s lives? Does the resource portray positive images of a range of young people? Does the resource show positive role models for young men and young women – and avoid stereotypes relating to gender and sexual orientation? Is the resource inclusive on the basis of home and family circumstance, gender, sexual orientation, race, faith, culture and disability? Is it appropriate for the age, ability and maturity of the young people? Have resources been evaluated by...
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...Child Sexual Abuse – Past, Present and Future Donna Hurst University of the Cumberlands HSOL 331 April 13, 2013 ABSTRACT This paper explores the issue of child sexual abuse. Sexual abuse of a child has become a major social issue in not only the United States but the entire world. It is imperative that society learns all they can about this issue. As a whole, society needs to discover the indicators of sexual abuse, the appropriate ways to report suspected abuse and how to help those that have been abused so they are not continually victimized by their past. This paper will explore child abuse and child sexual abuse in six parts. The first part will begin with the earliest references of child abuse as a whole. The second part will continue on to the emergence of the issue of child abuse on the social and political scene. The third part of this paper will show when and how sexual abuse first became recognized as part of the child abuse issue. The fourth part of this paper will move into the effects of child sexual abuse. The fifth part will cover child sexual abuse intervention methods and the sixth part will focus on the treatments available to help victims in the present as well as the future. PART ONE: CHILD ABUSE’S PAST In the ancient world, infanticide was common practice in nearly all cultures. Children were killed at birth if they did not seem fit. Fathers were permitted to kill their newborns if they deemed the child was abnormal. Children that showed signs...
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...adolescent.The media enables the teens to learn different communication skills, be creative and get peer support (Spengler, Mess&Woll, 2015). However, statistics indicate that a good number of the youths do not use the media in a productive way. This paper discusses the need for the parents to control their teens’ media use.The media if full of sexual content, the abuse of drugs and violent content, which can be harmful to an adolescent. Although the sexual content in the press is detrimental for any age group, the adolescents are the most vulnerable. Researchers have written about the prevalence of the sexual content in the media and the effect it has to the audience. The adolescents are susceptible because they are at a developmental period when sexual behaviors, sexual attitudes, and gender roles are developing(Walther, Hanewinkel& Morgenstern, 2014).Analyses of broadcast media show that an average adolescent views 143 incidences of sexual behavior weekly.Also, almost 80% of the movies these young children are watching are full of sexual content. The type of music videos they watch has around 60 percent portray of sexual impulses...
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...conducted both practically, and theoretically, to overtly annunciate the social and democratic problems associated with advertised female subordination. The relative research involves a semiotic analysis of two sources, coupled with a survey of 40 candidates of varying ages. Furthermore, theoretical mechanisms of media framing and cultivation have been deconstructed throughout this article to uncover the impact of magnified female subordination on the domestic expectations of children and young adults. Through the collection of data, it was able to be conclusively recognized the impact of objectification on social attitudes. Results had shown the many conceptions concerning the female purpose, these include; a woman’s role as a domestic and sexual slave to her male partner. Through the convergence of data, semiotic analysis and academic theory, it may be meticulously understood how female objectification in the mass media is a social complication in the construction of an egalitarian future. ‘Women’s bodies are predominantly valued for its use to others’ Fredrickson & Roberts 1997 During the past decade, society has witnessed the progression of information technology, and has been a part of a global communication network that surpasses domestic and moral boundaries. This network has fabricated a sharp impact on national discourse, political policy, and the social attitudes of society, particularly children and young adults. As our society becomes more commercial,...
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... Liberty University Television in American Culture 2. Figure [ 1 ] Home of the Heatons Television directly affects children today in many different ways. Media consumes much of people’s time through television and internet. Television has been a part of Americans lives for many years. When television was young the shows it aired were wholesome and rated G, television was not available constantly, and there were three channels available. Now day’s television can be viewed constantly, many channels are available, and what was once HBO material is now basic cable. Television influences American teens behavior, health, morals, and intelligence. This image is from a website entitled Home of the Heaton’s. The author is unknown but the point of this cartoon is clear. The left image shows a man in the year 1990 with a slender build with a large older model television next to him. The image on the right shows that same man eighteen years later in 2008 with a much heavier build and a new model television next to him. This cartoon is sending the message that television has affected the obesity in America through an increase in watching television. This ad uses pathos and logos to get the point across. Ethos is not used because the author of the cartoon is unknown so there is no way of knowing if the author is credible. The inactivity television causes contributes...
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...Babysitter” is fraught with sexual language, addressing sexual behavior directly and nonchalantly in discussing characters’ interactions with non-sexual objects. Psychoanalysis relies on the Oedipus Complex; the assumption that male behavior is a result of a deep-seeded unconscious “castration anxiety,” whereupon a young boy loves his mother and wants to have sex with her and competes with the father, resulting in an unconscious fear that his father will castrate him. In adulthood, a male “fetishizes female beauty as a way of defending against the anxiety brought about by the spectacle of woman as representing ‘lack’ or castration” (Gabbard, 161). This fetishizing female beauty, or in other words, objectifying women, is a defense mechanism against castration anxiety. Psychoanalysis offers multiple explanations for the objectification of women. Objectification is also considered to be a result of the disturbance of the relationship between mother and baby. Objectification is a compensation for the loss of “the blissful relationship with a mother who has no autonomy or otherness but exists only to serve the baby’s needs” (Gabbard 166). Objectification, then, is a result of the male trying to recreate this perfect maternal symbiosis in which the mother serves the baby’s needs, and is essentially used as an object of need-fulfillment in this way. Thus, the characters’ objectification of women, as well as the narrator’s, can be examined under a psychoanalytic lens. Sexual objectification “is...
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...minds in a way that they do not notice. In today’s society, children read less and less and watch television more. Children exposed to messages in television, film, video, music and video games at a young age can have certain behaviors reinforced and because children can’t distinguish between television, and video games and real life they will mirror what they see. On the contrary, books are by definition media, and can graphically depict violence as well as television or film. Books and television are both forms of communication. However, would installing more literacy programs introduce certain behaviors not wanted? Television has made communication more efficient and there’s no reason that we can’t tell children not to be violent more efficiently. Society and multimedia does put a big emphasis on beauty. Children watching television and other forms of media see that they are supposed to act a certain way to get attention from the opposite sex. This influences many teens to wear certain types of clothing and makeup and act a mature way at an earlier age. Sex scenes in film and television influence teen sexual behavior. According to a study done by Health Day News, studied children 12-14, and the content of what they watched. The results were, “Teens who were exposed to more sexual content in film started having sex at younger ages,” they were likely to have “more sex partners and were less likely to use condoms.’’ Children do not think of the consequences of engaging...
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...Sex and Violence Paper Michael Wright Com/340 June 29, 2015 Leigh Pethe Sex and Violence Paper People should mull over every dissimilar dynamic involved prior to setting their sight on the reasoning when they decide whether or not movies, television and video games have any effect on young people. It may possibly be an exhilarating or an extremely exasperating experience. It all depends on the way people try to tackle this concern. People ought to use all the data at their disposal and follow the instructions prior to looking for that ideal resolution. All through this essay, people can gain familiarity, information and examples on the way young people are affected by sex and violence. Many of the likely victims are immature and inexperienced, and because it is human nature, consequently desire the things they observe. A certain method to expect a procedure of transformation however might not be a simple assignment after all is taking the occasion to find out why young people are the audience that is targeted. “Their superior abstract reasoning abilities and their tendency at this age to challenge conventional authority make adolescents particularly susceptible to imitating some kinds of television violence, crime and portrayals of suicide”(Josephson,2011). The study just involves a minute proportion of young people even though the data given is based on figures. Young people appear to be persuaded effortlessly, mainly by their peers. Ponder what young people’s life desires...
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...used to describe education about human sexual anatomy, sexual reproduction, sexual intercourse, and other aspects of human sexual behavior. Although some form of sex education is part of the curriculum in some schools around the country, it remains a controversial issue in many areas. More than half of parents do not think sex education should be taught to children at school, according to a new survey. Many think it is inappropriate to teach children about sex, while others think it should be a parents' choice to inform their own child, according to a poll by baby product website babychild.org.uk. The survey, which questioned more than 1,700 parents of children aged five to fifteen, found that fifty nine per cent do not agree with the fact that sex education is often taught to children in schools. Given the state of clothing, television, music, video games and other social media, a wise parent would be on constant alert for opportunities to assess their child for signs that wisdom about anything sexual is in need of being dispensed and then they would dispense it. But many aren’t, and many don’t. It is adults who are uncomfortable with sex, and this discomfort is a big part of the reason why children need sex education in schools. Adults are failing in their job to inform their kids in a timely manner. Kids are sexual beings from the moment they are conceived. Pretending that they don’t need to know anything about even the most basic sexual issues before they are teens is willful...
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...categorized into a mental health issue. These individuals are often afraid of what others will say about them. They feel like they will be judged and ridiculed, do his or her disorder. These disorders are very common in men and women and has been prevalent since the 21st century. The signs and symptoms are different, and they vary from person to person. Sexual organs, sexual dysfunction, and sexual performance all revolve around disorders of gender and sexuality. Depending on the exact disorder that is present, this is...
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...Brainwashed and Not Understanding Gustavis Martin Liberty U APA Everyday our children are becoming more and more exposed to negativity as a result of the media and electronic devices. Most parents do not realize the danger our kids are placed in from this mass exposure. In today’s society our children can be brainwashed excessive time listening to certain music on the radio, watching certain television programs and playing some types of video games and other social media outlets by wanting to emulate what they see, read and hear. Much of this is leading to hazards to their mental and physical health. It is really an epidemic which can only be stopped by parents and other responsible adults gaining an understanding of the technology and devices our kids use, and learning what should be censored. [pic] So much of the music on the radio contains large amounts of cursing, with the lyrics requiring to be beeped out. This situation is worsened with our kids listening to these same songs on their iPods, mp3’s, Zune, etc. A majority, if not all, of the music on the devices will have cursing, derogatory sayings, and violent references that parents and other adults would not want their children to hear on a regular basis, but continue to let them do so mostly because of a lack of knowledge about how to use this technology. Though rap is not the only genre of music which frequently includes these concerns, it is a prime example. It is stated...
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