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Christar wrote a great blog about teen pregnancy on Private Practice, but it seems that teen pregnancy is quite a trend on many shows lately. There is an entire show on ABC Family "Secret Life of an American Teenager" about teenage pregnancy and MTV also with their show "Teen Mom," "Glee" had an episode about teenage pregnancy, Lifetime aired a movie about a group of high school teen moms called "The Pregnancy Pact," VH1 news had a segment titled "The New Virginity" : http://www.vh1.com/shows/vh1_news_presents/episode.jhtml?episodeID=164477 and although it is everywhere on tv, in reality we know little about the topic. The media isn't telling us ways in which we could prevent being a teen parent, it just gives us a general and fictional idea of what it could be like to be a teen mom. This would be ok if we were educated elsewhere, but we clearly are not. After a decade of decline, once again teen pregnancy is on the rise (note that the use of ab-only is also on the rise) .... anna beale came to savannah to talk to a group of students about GCAPP, GYUPP, and provided general safe-sex information. With her presentation she talked about prophylactic, not a single student knew what it was, heck i'm a part of afy and gyupp and i didn't know what it was. What are we supposed to do when we have a surplus of information about sex and pregnancy, but no information on how to prevent it?
Thanks Tilly for the shoutout!
In case people don't know, prophylactic is an older term for a condom! are you and your partner talking about using them AND using them correctly?
Learn about the history of condoms here:
http://www.museumofsex.com/exhibit/rubbers
You can find more info about birth control options here:
http://www.plannedparenthood.org/teen-talk/birth-control-25029.htm
And here:
http://sexreally.com/birth-control-101
Also, for those of you who aren’t, follow us on Twitter! We talk about this kind of stuff every day! www.twitter.com/gyupp