Sex Smart: 501 Reasons to Hold Off on Sex: A Sexuality Resource for Teenagers [Paperback]

Written by a medical science journalist and parent, this book provides straightforward answers to hundreds of questions teens have about sex and relationships.TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Chapter 1 Love and Sex Chapter 2 How Sex Can Ruin Your Relationship Chapter 3 Are Males and Females on the Same Sexual Wavelength? Chapter 4 It Wasn't at All What I Expected Chapter 5 Pregnancy: It could happen to you Chapter 6 LISTEN UP, GUYS! Eighteen years of child support is a long time! Chapter 7 Difficult Choices: Options for the pregnant teen and her partner Chapter 8 Is Everybody Doing It? Peer pressure and self-esteem Chapter 9 What's the Double Standard? Chapter 10 Sexual Liberation: Was it really liberating? Chapter 11 Your Personal Policy on Sex Chapter 12 Why Choose Abstinence? Chapter 13 There Are Many Other Ways to Make Love Chapter 14 How to Say No Chapter 15 Date Rape Chapter 16 Sexually Transmitted Diseases: One false move and you're infected Chapter 17 AIDS: Sex in the Age of Death Chapter 18 If You're Smart...Sex is not a three-letter word for love, writes sex educator Carol Cassell. Love that is real is a developing emotion, slow and steady....[It involves] a willingness to invest time and effort in developing the potential of a relationship.1 A young man explains, I thought that sleeping together would deepen our relationship. But we just didn't know each other well enough. It turned out we were too different. I was sorry, and I felt guilty. Twenty-three-year-old Kim recalls, I was sixteen and a virgin when I started dating Brian. He was great looking, older, sophisticated. I thought about him every minute. I was completely in love. After a few weeks, we were having sex-in fact, we did it every time we had a chance to be together. At first, I was so happy being with him, but then I got scared and upset. I was afraid he would leave me, and I felt kind of guilty. Here I was sleeping with this guy, and I was starting to figure out that he didn't feel about me llĂB