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"real" can help us understand why some people have
sexual intercourse before they're ready. They include:
- Trying to cure loneliness or unhappiness
- Wanting to be more popular
- Using physical sex to avoid close, caring relationships
- Wanting to "prove" you're not gay or lesbian
- Hoping to discover the "fireworks" that go with
sex on TV and in records, movies, magazines, and books
- Believing "the first time" is not important,
so just get it over with
- Not using good judgment because you're high on alcohol
or other drugs
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you need reassurance in a decision read this:
ASSERTIVE BILL OF RIGHTS
I have the right...
- To be responsible for my own life
- To accept and respect myself and others
- To feel happy, satisfied, and to allow inner peace
- To take good care of my whole being; my body, my mind,
and my spirit
- To be imperfect
- To be aware of and fulfill my own needs
- To have dreams, goals, and ideals and to make them happen
- To have and express all my emotions
- To tell others how I want to be treated
- To allow people to help me without feeling guilty, unworthy,
or dependent
- To set my own priorities about my use of time, money,
space, and energy
- To get what I pay for
- To have healthy, life-enhancing relationships. Where
clear communication is valued
- To make conscious decisions to change relationships
- To change, emerge, expand in new directions
- To have my own beliefs, ideas and values without apology
to anyone
- To live in the present moment, free of guilt for the
past and worry for the future
- To relax, "to let go", to "do" nothing
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The
Top 7 Questions about Unplanned Pregnancy and Birth Contraception