Both in sexual behavior and in all other areas of behavior, teenagers strive to attain social acceptance by their peers, which is common at the stage in which teenagers are. ... This motivation for acceptance within a social group can be a very strong driving force that pushes teenagers to start having sex as the notion of "since everyone is doing it" has been instilled in their heads. ... Teenagers have higher rates of contracting gonorrhea than do sexually active adult men and women. ... Currently, an estimated 15% of adolescents have contracted an STD. Such rates are likely underestimated, ...

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The reason a person enters sex work whether personal, economic, or social should be as private as any other persons profession. ... The same benefits must help cover the cost of any disease contracted while employed, especially STIs. ...

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If an individual contracts one or more of these infections then they are putting themselves and others at a high risk of facing death. ... The results of these tests resulted in that psychological impact of negative social attitudes towards the people who visit sexual health services and to the staff who work there (White and Mortensen). ... Stigma operates when individuals fail to meet what is considered to be normal and healthy which spoils the social identity, isolating the individuals from self, as well as, societal acceptance (White and Mortensen). ...

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Nevertheless it does speak further giving the information on statistics but rather informs the moral and social responsibilities of being catholic: While sickness is closely connected with humanity's sinful state, it would be wrong to see it as a punishment on a person for their sins' While the personal decision about sexual activity before marriage is a concern of the Catholic perspective, so too is the issue of AIDS/STDs. ... Abstinence-only advocates claim that "just say no- programmes prevent teenagers from engaging in sexual intercourse, from getting pregnant and from cont...

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