How Can Parents Help Teenagers Develop a Healthy Understanding of Sex?
How Can Parents Help Teenagers Develop a Healthy Understanding of Sex? The Quint FIT
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Sustainable Development Goals and Sexual Health
Introduction
Conversely, poor mental health can significantly impair sexual health. Conditions such as depression, anxiety, trauma, and stress can manifest as decreased libido, sexual dysfunction, and difficulties in arousal or orgasm.
Additionally, negative body image, low self-esteem, and relationship conflicts stemming from mental health challenges can disrupt sexual satisfaction and intimacy.
Like in Meghna’s case, who could not perceive herself as “attractive” and started hating food. Eventually, she started losing weight so aggressively that it affected both her menstrual and sexual health. She lost her libido.
The Sexual Response Cycle
A usual sexual response cycle in humans has four phases:
- Excitement (arousal)
- Plateau (sustained arousal)
- Orgasm (height of pleasure)
- Resolution (returning back to pre-excited state)
Adolescents and Sexual Health
Especially in adolescents physical, mental and social turmoil – the constant need to fit in, exam and career anxiety, risk of sexual abuse, substance abuse, adverse childhood experiences and trauma – can often affect sexuality and sexual preferences.
Certain individuals with neurodevelopmental disorders like ADHD or behavioral problems such as conduct disorder, and oppositional defiant disorder can engage in impulsive and high-risk taking sexual behaviour, aggressive sexual exploration and risky sexual experimentation.
These can impinge on sexual rights of others, and increase the risk of sexually transmitted diseases.
Furthermore, trauma-related disorders such as adjustment reactions and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can lead to sexual avoidance, hypervigilance, or dissociation during sexual encounters, hindering the ability to engage in pleasurable and consensual intimacy.
SDGs, Targets, and Indicators
| SDGs | Targets | Indicators |
|---|---|---|
| SDG 3: Good Health and Well-being | Target 3.4: By 2030, reduce by one-third premature mortality from non-communicable diseases through prevention and treatment and promote mental health and well-being | Indicator: Prevalence of mental health disorders |
| SDG 5: Gender Equality | Target 5.6: Ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights as agreed in accordance with the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development and the Beijing Platform for Action and the outcome documents of their review conferences | Indicator: Proportion of women of reproductive age who have their need for family planning satisfied with modern methods |
| SDG 10: Reduced Inequalities | Target 10.2: By 2030, empower and promote the social, economic, and political inclusion of all, irrespective of age, sex, disability, race, ethnicity, origin, religion or economic or other status | Indicator: Proportion of population reporting having personally felt discriminated against or harassed in the previous 12 months on the basis of a ground of discrimination prohibited under international human rights law |
| SDG 16: Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions | Target 16.2: End abuse, exploitation, trafficking and all forms of violence against and torture of children | Indicator: Number of victims of human trafficking per 100,000 population, by sex, age group and form of exploitation |
1. Which SDGs are addressed or connected to the issues highlighted in the article?
- SDG 3: Good Health and Well-being
- SDG 5: Gender Equality
- SDG 10: Reduced Inequalities
- SDG 16: Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions
2. What specific targets under those SDGs can be identified based on the article’s content?
- Target 3.4: By 2030, reduce by one-third premature mortality from non-communicable diseases through prevention and treatment and promote mental health and well-being
- Target 5.6: Ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights as agreed in accordance with the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development and the Beijing Platform for Action and the outcome documents of their review conferences
- Target 10.2: By 2030, empower and promote the social, economic, and political inclusion of all, irrespective of age, sex, disability, race, ethnicity, origin, religion or economic or other status
- Target 16.2: End abuse, exploitation, trafficking and all forms of violence against and torture of children
3. Are there any indicators mentioned or implied in the article that can be used to measure progress towards the identified targets?
- Indicator: Prevalence of mental health disorders (related to Target 3.4)
- Indicator: Proportion of women of reproductive age who have their need for family planning satisfied with modern methods (related to Target 5.6)
- Indicator: Proportion of population reporting having personally felt discriminated against or harassed in the previous 12 months on the basis of a ground of discrimination prohibited under international human rights law (related to Target 10.2)
- Indicator: Number of victims of human trafficking per 100,000 population, by sex, age group and form of exploitation (related to Target 16.2)
4. SDGs, Targets, and Indicators
| SDGs | Targets | Indicators |
|---|---|---|
| SDG 3: Good Health and Well-being | Target 3.4: By 2030, reduce by one-third premature mortality from non-communicable diseases through prevention and treatment and promote mental health and well-being | Indicator: Prevalence of mental health disorders |
| SDG 5: Gender Equality | Target 5.6: Ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights as agreed in accordance with the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development and the Beijing Platform for Action and the outcome documents of their review conferences | Indicator: Proportion of women of reproductive age who have their need for family planning satisfied with modern methods |
| SDG 10: Reduced Inequalities | Target 10.2: By 2030, empower and promote the social, economic, and political inclusion of all, irrespective of age, sex, disability, race, ethnicity, origin, religion or economic or other status | Indicator: Proportion of population reporting having personally felt discriminated against or harassed in the previous 12 months on the basis of a ground of discrimination prohibited under international human rights law |
| SDG 16: Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions | Target 16.2: End abuse, exploitation, trafficking and all forms of violence against and torture of children | Indicator: Number of victims of human trafficking per 100,000 population, by sex, age group and form of exploitation |
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