risky sexual behaviour

Question 1

list milestones of study of sexual behavior

Answer 1

20th century - focus on sex as behaviour & not just
outcomes of sex
Milestones
- The Kinsey Report 1948
- white Americans
- population patterns & variety of sexual behaviour
[focus: sex as a natural healthy drive]
- Masters & Johnson 1960s
- heterosexual Americans
- laboratory studies of sexual responses
[focus: how to measure/improve sex by understanding physiology]
- The Hite Reports 1970s & 1980s
population/lab studies of sexuality and pleasure
[focus: understanding pleasure - gender differences, etc]
National sexual behaviour surveys: US, Australia, UK in 1990s
- Impetus in many countries was concerns about HIV
- Ireland: first national study 2006 - >7,000 adults surveyed
- (completed by RCSI) (ISSHR: Irish Study of Sexual Health & Relationships)

Question 2

sexuality

Answer 2

a central aspect of being human throughout life
• encompasses biological sex, gender identities and roles,
sexual orientation, eroticism, pleasure, intimacy and
reproduction

Question 3

Core aspects of sexual health

Answer 3

1. Fertility management (contraception and infertility)
2. Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) (including HIV/AIDS)
3. Sexual function/dysfunction (including aspects of
   the human sexual response sequence - desire, sexual arousal, and orgasm)
4. Sexual violence

Question 4

problems of STI and unplanned pregnancy management

Answer 4

outbreak 2018
Young people (aged 15-24 years)
49% of chlamydia cases
39% of herpes simplex cases
32% of gonorrhoea cases