Posted on 04/04/2005 8:20:42 AM PDT by stm
CHICAGO (Reuters) - One in five U.S. teenagers say they have engaged in oral sex, an activity that some adolescents view as not sex at all and certainly less risky than intercourse, a report released Monday said.
The survey of 580 children with a mean age of 14-1/2 found 20 percent said they had engaged in oral sex, compared to 14 percent who said they had engaged in sexual intercourse.
In addition, one-third of the multi-ethnic 9th graders surveyed said they intended to have oral sex within the next six months and nearly one-fourth planned to have intercourse during the period. It was more common for boys to have performed oral sex on girls than vice versa, the report said.
Previous studies and numerous campaigns aimed at deterring teenaged sex have focused on intercourse, but as many as half of adolescents experience oral sex first, the report said.
The risk of transmitting infections, including HIV, is significantly less with oral sex than with intercourse but is likely underestimated by teenagers, said the report in the journal Pediatrics.
Youngsters who engage in oral sex rarely used condoms or dental dams, even though herpes, hepatitis, gonorrhea, chlamydia, syphilis as well as the virus that causes AIDS can all be transmitted orally, it added.
"Given the suggestion that adolescents do not view oral sex as sex and see oral sex as a way of preserving their virginity while still gaining intimacy and sexual pleasure, they are likely to interpret sexual health messages as referring to vaginal sex," wrote lead author Bonnie Halpern-Felsher, a pediatrician at the University of California, San Francisco.
"Adolescents also believed that oral sex is more acceptable than vaginal sex for adolescents their own age in both dating and non-dating situations, oral sex is less of a threat to their values and beliefs, and more of their peers will have oral sex than vaginal sex in the near future," she wrote.
Where does a bunt or a sacrifice fly fall in?
You have to start with men on first AND second base. Which sounds like the makings of an orgy.
If the batter gets hit does he get to take a base?
"From the mouths of babes..."
- No, apparently it's into the mouth of babes.....
You remember!
"To be" or not....
How about artificial turf?
"All together now, "Thank you, WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON."
The horny hick from Hope stikes again
Does the hieght of the mound make a difference in strikeouts?
I'd say that this is just as much a legacy of abstinence only education as it is a legacy of WJC. Kids believe that vaginal sex is bad now, so they define other things (oral, anal) as "not sex", which makes it acceptable and preferable to them.
It, 2nd base was there, "petting above the waist" It clearly is not sex, although you can get sued for harrasment if it is not welcome.
As far as the infield fly rule, it does not apply to oral sex, which is still a third base play. Since in the oral fly rule the runners cannot advance, I suspect this would be more like hearing your parents car in the driveway.
So this accounts for the drop in Teenage pregnancy?
Getting hit during the play is very likely if one has not sufficiently sweeted up the other player. This does not result in a free base, it usually means the batter is out.
Wow! You have a much different definition of abstinence than do most people
So does another batter get a shot?
Have you ever heard the phrase "Technical virgin?"
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