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Baring it all
Life, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 26/02/2014
» Talking about sex is awkward — for teenagers, for parents, for teachers. When teenagers need guidance, conversations about sex-related topics are frequently dodged. Sex education in Thailand over the past decades is usually allocated only a few hours per semester as part of a physical education class, and even then consists only of a theoretical component, which hardly answers some of the more frequently asked questions among teens, such as "Why does my penis appear black or darker than my skin tone?", "Is it weird to not last as long as people do in pornos?" or "What is premenstrual syndrome and how do you deal with it?".
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The land of missed opportunity
Spectrum, Chaiyot Yongcharoenchai, Published on 02/03/2014
» ‘I never felt at home in Thailand. I always stood out in the crowd,” says Brian, a Thai national who prefers to use a pseudonym. “I was outspoken, determined and confident. From my experience, those personality traits are not acceptable here. I always told myself that I would take the first chance to leave.”
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UN warns of rise in teen pregnancies
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 14/03/2014
» Increasing teenage pregnancy is a wake-up call for Thai society to adopt new approaches to gender equality and comprehensive sexuality education for both boys and girls, experts say.
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Porn culture perpetuates violence against women
News, Published on 19/03/2014
» If you turn on the TV, flick through a magazine or look at billboards, you will see that porn has now become a blueprint for how the media represents women's bodies. Whether it be Katy Perry writhing almost naked in a music video, or Miley Cyrus "twerking" with a man almost twice her age (who seems to have a "blurred" understanding of sex), the images that bombard us daily look much like soft-core porn did a few decades ago.
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Learning the yin and yang of sexuality
News, Published on 03/05/2014
» It wasn't a conventional youth camp in Chiang Mai last month at which young students would normally gather sticks and learn how to start a fire.
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Ignorance is fuelling teenage pregnancy
News, Published on 12/06/2014
» When mentioning “pregnant adolescent” many people tend to think of a “bad girl”, a girl of loose morals, dressed provocatively perhaps, drinking beer and frequenting the types of people no decent person would want to hang out with. After all, these girls display the typical behaviour we associate with the causes of teen pregnancy: drinking alcohol, having sex before marriage, having many or even multiple boyfriends twice her age, and not being interested in school. In a word, thoroughly shameless girls, and when they get pregnant it should come as no surprise.
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About a (tom) boy
Life, Melalin Mahavongtrakul, Published on 19/06/2014
» Life as a 23-year-old can be hectic, especially if you are one of the most popular Thai actresses in China, juggling constant fan meetings, filming schedules, recording sessions, university lectures and an internship.
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The economic cost of homophobia
News, Published on 25/06/2014
» As a gay man living in Nigeria, my biggest challenge was choosing between my sexuality and my job.
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Thai teenage pregnancy rate rising
News, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 09/09/2014
» Thailand will not overcome its growing problem of teenage pregnancy without collaboration from all sectors of society, health experts said yesterday at a national conference.
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Prognosis mixed
Asia focus, Published on 06/10/2014
» Asia has been on the front lines of the struggle against the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) ever since it first emerged in 1983. As of 2012, there were 4.9 million people living with HIV, a total of 260,000 deaths and 350,000 new HIV infections in Asia and the Pacific, according to UNAIDS.
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