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Article: Asian American adolescents' first sexual intercourse: gender and acculturation differences.
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- Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health
- Article date:
- March 1, 2006
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Sexual intercourse during adolescence is a significant and complex event. It leads to a radically new understanding of one's identity as a physically developing person, and it is a major psychological milestone on the road to adulthood. (1)
Adolescent sexual activity in the United States is associated with a broad range of health and social problems. (2) Sexual activity places youths at risk for STDs (3) and pregnancies-every year about three million cases of STDs are reported among 10-19-year-olds, (4) and 870,000 pregnancies occur among 15-19-year-old women. (5) Early sexual activity is associated with alcohol and drug use, intimate partner violence, pregnancy ...