It keeps us in the safe belief that if, God forbid, we happened to face extraordinary historical circumstances we would behave like heroes.
Sosa's idea (later abandoned) that knowledge is safe belief accords well with a virtue-theoretic approach to knowledge.
An example of a safe belief that is not sensitive, according to Sosa, is the belief that a distant skeptical scenario does not obtain.
These results reasonably suggest that there could be an association between safe sex beliefs and sexual initiation.
Other independent variables included medically related factors like safer sex beliefs and the duration of HIV diagnosis and start of ART, safe sex beliefs about ART and safer sex knowledge, pleasure and effectiveness.
**Adjusted for socio-demographic, partner related, medical and safer sex beliefs, psychosocial and behavioral characteristics.
After adjusting for sex, age, country, economic status, religiosity, school funding (public/private) and school type (coeducational/single-sex; model 3), the odds of having had sex is 82% higher among adolescents with a safe-sex belief than among those without a safe-sex belief (OR=1.82; 95% CI 1.51 to 2.21).
The only significant interaction was found between having a safe-sex belief and country, showing that the association between having a safe-sex belief and sexual initiation was higher among Filipinos than among Peruvians (data not shown, see figure 1).
The association between having a safe-sex belief and sexual initiation was assessed in more depth.
Having a safe-sex belief was associated with having had sex.
