Half of All Teens Have Had Oral Sex


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Study: Half of All Teens Have Had Oral Sex

By Laura Sessions Stepp
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, September 16, 2005; Page A07

Slightly more than half of American teenagers ages 15 to 19 have engaged in oral sex, with females and males reporting similar levels of experience, according to the most comprehensive national survey of sexual behaviors ever released by the federal government.

The report released yesterday by the National Center for Health Statistics shows that the proportion increases with age to about 70 percent of all 18- and 19-year-olds. That figure is considerably higher for those who also have engaged in intercourse.

Several leaders of organizations that study or work with youth expressed surprise at the level of girls' participation. "You assume that females are more likely to give, males more likely to receive," said Jennifer Manlove, who directs fertility research for the organization Child Trends. "We were surprised that the percentages were similar."

A report by the center nine months ago, based on the same survey, showed that slightly more girls than boys have intercourse before they turn 20. In addition, other national data indicate that the proportion of high school girls who have one-night stands, as well as nonromantic sexual relationships, equals boys.

"This is a point of major social transition," James Wagoner, president of Advocates for Youth, a reproductive health organization, said yesterday. "The data are now coming out and roiling the idea that boys are the hunters and young girls are the prey. It absolutely defies the stereotype."

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Jam Piper Jam said:
Study: Half of All Teens Have Had Oral Sex

By Laura Sessions Stepp
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, September 16, 2005; Page A07

Slightly more than half of American teenagers ages 15 to 19 have engaged in oral sex, with females and males reporting similar levels of experience, according to the most comprehensive national survey of sexual behaviors ever released by the federal government.

The report released yesterday by the National Center for Health Statistics shows that the proportion increases with age to about 70 percent of all 18- and 19-year-olds. That figure is considerably higher for those who also have engaged in intercourse.

Several leaders of organizations that study or work with youth expressed surprise at the level of girls' participation. "You assume that females are more likely to give, males more likely to receive," said Jennifer Manlove, who directs fertility research for the organization Child Trends. "We were surprised that the percentages were similar."

A report by the center nine months ago, based on the same survey, showed that slightly more girls than boys have intercourse before they turn 20. In addition, other national data indicate that the proportion of high school girls who have one-night stands, as well as nonromantic sexual relationships, equals boys.

"This is a point of major social transition," James Wagoner, president of Advocates for Youth, a reproductive health organization, said yesterday. "The data are now coming out and roiling the idea that boys are the hunters and young girls are the prey. It absolutely defies the stereotype."

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You would be surprised at what these kids do now. They do things now that half of the older generations have or will ever experience. Sometimes my students are talking while writing in their journals that I have to make them be quiet. :shame: And both parties will just laugh about it.
 



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Because we didn't grow up in a world that's too damm scared to say something IS NOT OK TO DO AS A KID. :upset:

Today .........everything is ok.............as long as you don't hurt nobodys feelings. :xeye:
 
cat daddy said:
Exactly!

Ya'll didn't have oral sex as teens?
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Ironically, when I was in high-school(mid-90's), oral sex was considered taboo among teens. But intercourse was ok. In the end its all the same thing, pre-marital sex. I find it hard to say today's teens are worse for doing something we all did or wanted to do when we were their age. And some of us still do....
 
Being an educator, this doesn't suprise me AT ALL.
Just last week I caught some 5th grade girls practicing oral sex on a pickle. :shame:


cat daddy said:
Ya'll didn't have oral sex as teens?
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No. :| Did you? :smash:
 
Tara said:
Being an educator, this doesn't suprise me AT ALL.
Just last week I caught some 5th grade girls practicing oral sex on a pickle. :shame:
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Say it ain't so...... :bawling: :bawling: :bawling:


If I hadn't taught high school for a minute, I wouldn't have know have believed it. But I after I heard how they (the students) keep an AIDS list and then general STD list of all infected cstudents at the high school, my eyes were opened. :|
 
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Exactly!

Ya'll didn't have oral sex as teens?
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JSU/99 said:
Ironically, when I was in high-school(mid-90's), oral sex was considered taboo among teens. But intercourse was ok. In the end its all the same thing, pre-marital sex. I find it hard to say today's teens are worse for doing something we all did or wanted to do when we were their age. And some of us still do....
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When I was in school, oral sex was something the white kids did and the black kids laughed at them.
Oh, the study, I say 50% of black kids have and 98% of white kids.
 



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