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View research View latest news Sign up for updates. Metrics details. Reproductive health is a part of a comprehensive definition of complete physical, mental and social well-being. Sex education is an important aspect of public health. Ignorance, due to the lack of sex education leads to risky sexual behaviors. The data were collected by face-to-face interviews and an anonymous electronic questionnaire. The study group involved 20, respondents. Most of the women were of reproductive age mean The three most effective contraceptive methods identified by respondents were: oral contraceptives
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How is sex education taught in Poland? Are these classes compulsory? In terms of law, sex education in Polish public schools appeared in , when the Act of 7 January on Family Planning, Protection of Human Foetus and Pregnancy Termination came into force. Article 4 1 states that courses on the sexual life of an individual, principles of conscious and responsible parenthood, the value of the family, life in the prenatal phase, as well as on methods and measures of conscious procreation shall be introduced into school curricula.
Prostitution in Poland Polish : prostytucja is legal, but operating brothels or other forms of pimping or coercive prostitution and prostitution of minors are prohibited. The travelling prostitute is recorded in the tenth century. Dozens of brothels thrived on the outskirts of central Warsaw since its establishment as the national capital in the sixteenth century, as in other large Polish cities and towns. These cities established municipal brothels and taxed both prostitutes and brothelkeepers.