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Birth Control and Sexual Behavior

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Birth Control and Sexual Behavior

As a nurse, Margret sanger experienced an incident of a woman named Ms. Sachs who

tried a self-induced abortion that did not go well with her. Ms. Sachs wanted Margret to give her

a secret that would help prevent the incident from happening again, but sadly Margret did not

have one. Three months later, the death of Ms. Sachs from practicing self-induced abortion made

Margret realize the need to help women with their reproductive choices. The city’s pain and grief

of women trying to bring up babies who were naked, hungry, and wrapped in newspaper, also

touched Margret in such a way that she was convinced she had to help them. I think the doctor in

the text is arrogant and does not understand the grievances of the patient. He is also rude and

does not correctly advise Ms. Sachs on the go-ahead to follow to prevent herself from being

pregnant with a baby she can’t afford to care for. If I were Ms. Sachs, I would not have repeated

the self-induced abortion; instead, I would just have given birth to the child to save my life.

The use of birth control methods prevents the young generation from unwanted

pregnancies. The use of birth control depends on cost, convenience, and discretion. I would

recommend using barrier methods and hormonal contraception since they are considered quite

effective and are available at considerable prices. Hormonal methods contain progestin or a

combination of both progestin and estrogen, making the prevention of pregnancy more effective

(Ogidi et al., 2019). Barrier methods involve the use of condoms which can either be worn by the

boy or the girl. The condoms are effective, and also they help prevent young people from sexual

infections and diseases such as HIV and Aids. I would recommend she use the implant, a thin

rod inserted under the skin in the upper arm and last up to three years, and is highly effective. I

would also suggest that she avoid abortion at all costs since it would affect her health and lead to

death.
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Sexual behavior is how human beings are expressing their sexual feelings and

experiencing the act of sexuality. Ways of idealizing sex involve genuine affection, whereby

people feel comfortable telling their sexual feelings to someone they know well (Sangiorgio et

al., 2014). In most cases, real affection is experienced by people in love and are willing to share

intimacy with their partners. They express feelings of closeness which leads to them feeling

affectionate about each other, and hence they practice sex. People also idealize sex by passion,

whereby their bodies get physically aroused and feel the need to practice sex. Passionate

idealization is influenced by peer pressure where one feels like exploring sex since that’s what

their peers expect of them. Self-affirmation creates positive feelings towards oneself, hence

involving sexual acts. Idealization of sex can be problematic since people have certain cultural

beliefs of how and when sex should be experienced.

The resolution phase is marked by a sense of well-being, enhanced intimacy, and fatigue

cases among men and women. After the contraction of muscles at the base of the penis during

which men ejaculate, they experience fatigue; hence they require recovery time after orgasm

before they experience another orgasm (Levin, 2017). The recovery time is referred to as the

refractory period. During this period, the muscles at the base of the penis begin to relax; the body

pressure and heart rates go down. The men during this period become less responsive to any

sexual simulations; hence they do not develop orgasms in this phase. On the other hand, women

experience multiple orgasms whereby their sexual stimulation is high, and the muscles are still

active. In this case, the women tend to want more since they still have orgasms, giving them the

urge to experience sex a bit further.

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References

Levin, R. J. (2017). The human sexual response cycle. The textbook of clinical sexual medicine,

39-51.

Ogidi, C. I., Okere, A. U., Ogbuabor, S. E., Nwadike, A. N., Usen, S. A., Onumonu, A. J., ... &

Egwim, C. E. (2019). Knowledge and Use of Birth Control Methods for Family Planning

by Married People in Nsukka Education Zone of Enugu State. Global Journal of Health

Science, 11(8), 1-96.

Sangiorgio, C., Reich, W. A., Vial, A. C., & Savone, M. (2014). Sexual Motivations and Ideals

Distinguish Sexual Identities within the Self-Concept: A Multidimensional Scaling

Analysis. Social Sciences, 3(2), 215-226.