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involuntary Physiol (esp of a movement or muscle) performed or acting without conscious control How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Teenage females who have first sex at an early age and those who have an older sexual partner are more likely than other women to report that these sexual experiences were nonvoluntary and unwanted, (16) and these coercive sexual experiences are associated with reduced contraceptive use and greater risk of a teenage birth. Paul Farmer, the Harvard physician and anthropologist, has noted that the women he interviewed in Haiti "were straightforward about the nonvoluntary aspect of their sexual activity: in their opinions, poverty had forced them into unfavorable unions. Programs in which children volunteered for treatment were more successful than programs with nonvoluntary participants. |
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