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Sexual Abstinence

Known as: celibate, sex abstinence, Abstinence, Sexual 
Prevention of contraception by not engaging in sexual intercourse.
National Institutes of Health

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Family PlanningSex Behavior

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Postpartum AbstinenceVirginity

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Highly Cited
2010
Highly Cited
2010
Gendered Sexuality over the Life Course: A Conceptual Framework
Despite increasing interest in gendered sexuality over the life course, a comprehensive conceptual model, applicable to all… 
Review
2007
Review
2007
Sexual abstinence only programmes to prevent HIV infection in high income countries: systematic review
Objective To assess the effects of sexual abstinence only programmes for HIV prevention among participants in high income… 
Review
2007
Review
2007
Impacts of Four Title V, Section 510 Abstinence Education Programs. Final Report.
any individuals contributed in important ways to this report. First, we thank Rebecca Maynard, former project director and co… 
Review
2007
Review
2007
Pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV infection: what if it works?
Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
Into the Dark Heart of Ethnography: The Lived Ethics and Inequality of Intimate Field Relationships
In response to critiques from feminist, existential, and postmodern qualitative researchers, the idea of maintaining objective… 
Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
The Change: Women, Ageing and the Menopause
  • S. Coney
  • BMJ : British Medical Journal
  • 2002
  • Corpus ID: 72553048
First published in 1991 by Hamish Hamilton Rating: ![Graphic][1] ![][2] ![][3] ![][4] Germaine Greer is fated to be a prophet… 
Highly Cited
1995
Highly Cited
1995
Decline in semen quality among fertile men in Paris during the past 20 years.
BACKGROUND Several studies have suggested a population-wide decline in the quality of semen over the past 50 years, but clear… 
Highly Cited
1984
Highly Cited
1984
Rather Never than Late: Celibacy and Age at Marriage in English Cohort Fertility, 1541-1871
  • D. Weir
  • Journal of family history
  • 1984
  • Corpus ID: 27379761
Most explanations of fertility change in preindustrial England empha size changes in age at marriage. This paper shows that, even… 
Highly Cited
1969
Highly Cited
1969
Born under Saturn : the character and conduct of artists, a documented history from antiquity to the French Revolution
Born Under Saturn is a classic work of scholarship written with a light and winning touch. Margot and Rudolf Wittkower explore… 
Highly Cited
1961
Highly Cited
1961
Obsessional illness in mental hospital patients.
  • I. M. Ingram
  • The Journal of mental science
  • 1961
  • Corpus ID: 27926145
The natural history of obsessional illness has been studied in 89 mental hospital in-patients. Diagnostically 37 were classified… 
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