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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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Review
2003
Review
2003
The proximate determinants of fertility in populations exposed to chronic hypoxia.
It has been hypothesized that hypoxia reduces fertility, but comparative studies of high and low altitude populations have been… 
Review
2002
Review
2002
Sexual behaviour and its medicalisation: in sickness and in health
Religion used to define morally acceptable conduct, then doctors became interested in sexual behaviour. Now we live in a world… 
Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
Anglo-Saxonism and the Construction of Social Identity
Introduction - Anglo-Saxonism and Mediaevalism, Allen J. Frantzen and John D. Niles Bede and Bawdy Bale - Gregory the Great… 
Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
Sex and Parthenogenesis — Evolutionary Ecology of Reproductive Modes in Non-Marine Ostracods
Sex and Parthenogenesis — Evolutionary Ecology of Reproductive Modes in Non-Marine Ostracods 
Review
1999
Review
1999
Reproductive health and the condom dilemma: identifying situational barriers to HIV protection in South Africa
This chapter explores common social and cultural barriers to condom use, and in general to adopting protective behaviour against… 
Review
1998
Review
1998
On the prevalence of homosexuality and bisexuality, in a random community survey of 750 men aged 18 to 27.
A stratified random sample of 750 males aged 18 to 27 in Calgary, Canada included questions on sexual activity and orientation. A… 
Highly Cited
1996
Highly Cited
1996
On mean type aggregation
  • R. Yager
  • IEEE Trans. Syst. Man Cybern. Part B
  • 1996
  • Corpus ID: 5507746
We introduce and define the concept of mean aggregation of a collection of n numbers. We point out that the lack of associativity… 
Review
1995
Review
1995
Non-traditional mothers: single heterosexual/lesbian women and lesbian couples electing motherhood via donor insemination.
The purpose of the project was to explore the motivation, reproductive and postdelivery experiences, and future concerns of… 
Review
1987
Review
1987
Behavioral consequences of AIDS antibody testing among gay men.
To the Editor.— We followed up 502 gay and bisexual men from 1984 (before human immunodeficiency virus antibody testing was… 
Review
1985
Review
1985
Self-reported behavioral change among gay and bisexual men--San Francisco.
A random probability sample was used in 1984 and 1985 surveys of risk factors for human T-lymphotropic virus type III… 
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