According to a the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy. The 54-55% figure may be a little off, but it's certainly more than a handful. So to speak.
Reuters has more.
Rob
Thursday, September 15, 2005
More than 50% of U.S. Teens Have Had Oral Sex
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Um, I don't know how people are expected to respond to this. Does that seem high or low to most people? And when it comes to preventing teen pregnancy, hey, bottoms up!
Preventing teen pregnancy, sure. But you're talking a mighty high-risk activity there with the whole "bottoms up" thing. You know, if you're concerned about STDs and all.
What I found odd about the report that I heard about this on NPR was the woman they interviewed who talked about how few of the teens who do enage in oral sex use condoms. What was odd about it? She didn't make any mention of HOW they're supposed to use a condom in oral sex. It works both ways, although you might want to have a pair of scissors handy if you're planning on using a condom for protection when you go down on your lady friend.
The other thing that caught my interest about the NPR report was the fact that a number of teens who claim to have practiced abstinance have also engaged in oral sex. They just don't consider it "sex" per se. Is this Clinton's legacy or something?
Really, I just posted it becuse I thought "that's more than a handful" was kinda funny.
Seems high to me, but I haven't been a teen for a long while, so who knows.
It's weird, though - since the survey covers people both above and below the age of majority, it may be more inflammatory than useful. When I hear "teens having sex," I think high school kids. (Please don't take that sentence out of context.) But the survey includes college-age teens too -- and I figure everyone should be gettin' a little in college. That's why they call it "college."
Oh, and I can see why the abstinence kids don't consider oral sex "sex." Because in abstinence classes, sex is associated almost completely with babies -- even more so than a teenager's regular fears about the whole pregnancy thing. So if sex is for making babies, something that won't make a baby just ain't sex.
Honestly, I don't know if I would have considered it "sex" then, either. It was sexual, and it was certainly something I wanted to try, but sex itself meant bumping uglies.
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