Background Ways to maintain good health during a pandemic are very important for the
general population; however, little is known about the impact of the coronavirus disease …

The purpose of this article was to identify the circumstances associated with casual sex
encounters, as well as to identify the link between casual sex, depressive symptoms, and …

Because of high levels of risk behavior, adjudicated adolescents are at high risk for negative
health outcomes such as nicotine and drug addiction and sexually transmitted diseases. The …

Americans remain deeply ambivalent about teenage sexuality. Many presume that such
uneasiness is rooted in religion. But how exactly does religion contribute to the formation of …

Current measures of sexual risk taking are either too narrowly focused to be used with
college students or do not have adequate psychometric properties. The goal of the current …

Humans, unlike most other species, show intense interest in the activities of conspecifics,
even when the activities in question pose no obvious fitness threat or opportunity. Here, we …

Context: Since the 1980s, the age at which US teenagers, especially minority youth, begin
having sex has decreased. There is limited information on the relationship between early …

More than one half of sexually active teens have had sexual partners they are not dating.
However, remarkably little is known about the nature of these sexual relationships. Using …

A growing body of research has demonstrated that boys exposed to a number of risk factors
have an increased probability of fathering a child during their teenage years, and that the …

This systematic review examines the relationship between religion and sexual HIV risk
behavior. It focuses primarily on how studies have conceptualized and defined religion …