Teen Sex Down
Teens, educators and researchers have different ideas about why fewer teens are having sex. Evert, who speaks to about 100,000 teens a year, said it might be because this rising generation are children of divorce and see what can happen in a relationship when two people aren't committed. And a University of Utah student, Brian Buxton, said he believes that students are getting the message about STDs and teen pregnancy loud and clear and have decided to wait until after high school to start that kind of relationship. Ref. Source 6
More teens have oral sex earlier than vaginal intercourse
The study is part of the government's effort to monitor those at risk for sexually transmitted diseases even though they aren't yet at risk for pregnancy if they're only having oral sex, says Casey Copen, a demographer with the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics. Ref. Source 1