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Sunday, November 12, 2006

Sexual health and safety for hot young lovers

Posted by Unknown at 4:36 AM
Page update: 07.10.07

In English law, once you are sixteen years old, you have the right to have sex if you wish, provided that your partner is sixteen or over and he or she consents. It needs to be informed consent, however, not drunken or drug-induced consent. An exception to the age rule is that you cannot lawfully have sex with one of your teachers or lecturers until you are eighteen. This applies to teachers and lecturers at the school or college you yourself go to. You also have the right to decline sex at any time (say no), and to decline any activity which makes you feel uncomfortable.

Also, in English law, you have the right of access to accurate information about sex once you are sixteen years old. In practice, this usually applies to younger teenagers as well.

The law recognises the concept of sexual confidentiality. Legal action can be taken if confidential information is disclosed or misused. The professional codes of practice of doctors, nurses and other health professionals place a duty on them not to disclose information about individual patients without their consent, except in exceptional circumstances.

Exceptional situations may occur where a professional believes the health, safety or welfare of the patient or others is at grave risk. It would then be usual to counsel the person to try to get them to agree to pass information on.

In practice, however, it is not difficult to keep things absolutely confidential (without parents, teachers, priests, lovers, friends or enemies knowing) because there are many confidential advice clinics available to young people, and you are not required to reveal your identity or any personal details to the health professionals in those clinics if you do not wish to.

But on the subject of the age of sexual consent, this does differ around the world. For example in Malta it is age 12, in Argentina, Guyana, Japan and Spain it is 13, in Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia and Estonia it is 14, in the Czech Republic, Denmark, France and Greece it is 15, in Latvia, the Netherlands, Norway and England it is 16, and in more primitive cultures such as the Philippines and certain states of the USA it is 18.

And ages of sexual consent change in individual countries as time passes, as does the average age of puberty. For example in England in 1875, the age of consent was 12 and the average age of puberty was 17. Now, in England, the age of consent is 16 and the average age of puberty is 12. Plainly, in this particular case, the law is an ass.

And there are further strange anomalies in sexual law. For example, in England you are permitted to have consensual sex at the age of sixteen. But in England you are not allowed to watch sex-education videos which show you how to have sex - which show the different sexual positions in action - until you are eighteen. And there are several good, informative videos of this kind available. They are not pornography; they are sex education. An example is a DVD called The Lovers' Guide to Sexual Positions.
In English Law you have to be 18 to buy or view this, yet you are allowed to have sex yourself at the age of 16. In some ways sex is similar to swimming, simultaneous equations or riding a bicycle. There are good ways of doing it and there are bad ways of doing it. A bad way of doing sex is to mix it up with alcohol. Sex and alcohol do not go together. No becomes yes, condoms get put on inside out, and the anus gets confused with the vagina. But good ways of doing sex can be learned, can be experimented with, can be practised and can be talked about. Young lovers talk to each other in a number of languages. One of these is verbal. It is good to talk. The vocabulary of sex includes words and phrases such as: "Yes," "No," "Harder," "Stop," "More of that, please," "Yes, yes, yes," "No, no, no," "Don't put it there, stupid," and "Why are you torturing me with your private agenda?"

There are lots of reliable websites freely accessible on the internet which provide safe and accurate sexual information for young people. The following links indicate a few of these:


Boys' bits

Testicle tutorial

Penis: An Owner's Manual

Premature ejaculation

Girls' bits

Where is my clitoris?

Vulva: An Owner's Manual

Sex positions

Is everybody doing it?

Should I have sex?

Why do I keep thinking about sex?

Am I a slut?

Common sex myths

The first time I had consensual sex

Your sexual rights

Sex and the law

Age of consent

What is sexual health?

Masturbation

Orgasm and sexual response

Vibrators 1 .. 2 .. 3 .. 4

Sex toys 1 .. 2

Spermicides and lubricants

Playing safe with contraceptives

What do I do with this condom?

Am I gay?

Am I bisexual?

Am I being sexually abused?
Clickpath >> Got a problem > abuse > sexual abuse

Am I pregnant?

Pregnancy and contraception

Emergency contraception the morning after

Abortion options

Pubic lice, lovebugs, awkward itches and STDs

STD symptoms and sexual worries

Chlamydia

Cold sores and genital herpes

Genital warts

Gonorrhoea

Human T cell lymphotropic virus (HTLV)

Syphilis

Vaginal thrush

Stuff about AIDS

Oral sex 1 .. 2



Does my girlfriend need an afrodizzyache?

Does circumcision permanently desensitise the penis?

Free confidential advice

Free telephone advice

Free legal information

My first visit to the gynaecologist

Vocabulary of sexy words

Do guys want more than sex?

What is French kissing?

What is male circumcision?
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What is female circumcision?
1 .. 2 .. 3 .. 4

Where did my boyfriend's love bites come from?

Dressing for rape

Dating violence warning signs

Sex and alcohol

Sex and Hip-hop

Sexual addiction

Sex tips for stud muffins

No hard feelings, Barbie

How do I stop my 13-year-old daughter having sex?

How to stay safe online

Safe chatting

Forced marriage information

Forced marriage unit (UK)



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Images of sexual insecurity
Codpieces and push-up bras
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Images of sexual initiation

Ryn in the Middle
A picture by Suechan

Spoiled
A picture by Linda Bergkvist

The Nightmare
A picture by Henry Fuseli

Succubus
A picture by Carrie Hall

Impossible Love
A picture by Selena Fenech

Psylocke and Archangel
A picture by Julie Bell

Strong as Steel
A picture by Julie Bell

Love Locked Out
A picture by Anna Lea Merritt

Bridge to the Future
A picture by Boris Vallejo

The Gate
A picture by Rowena Morill

Bath of the Twin Dragon
A picture by James Neff

Wet
A picture by Julie Bell

Adam and Eve
A picture by Ernst Fuchs
Master and Margeritha
A picture by H.R.Giger


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