Explain prevention of sexual variations.
What will be an ideal response?
The misery that many people suffer, not to mention the harm they may do to others (e.g., the child molester), is good reason to want to develop programs for preventing sexual variations. In preventive medicine, a distinction is made between primary prevention and secondary prevention. Applied to the sexual variations, primary prevention would mean intervening in home life or in other factors during childhood to help prevent problems from developing or trying to teach people how to cope with crises or stress so that problems do not develop. In secondary prevention, the idea is to diagnose and treat the problem as early as possible once it has arisen, so that difficulties are minimized. It would be highly advantageous to do primary prevention of sexual variations-that is, to head them off before they even develop.
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