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.
This is saddening, maddening and heartbreaking. I still remember the thrill of my very first kiss thirty-three years ago. Kids miss out on so much sweetness these days.
100% Clinton's fault. The man is a PIG, and yet he's worshiped as a god. I do not get it.
Oh, it has nothing to do with liberals.
Hmmm.
Pitchers do it on the rubber.
Switch-hitters do it from both sides (or swing both ways in some cases).
Catchers do in in a squat
Infielders do it in the dirt.
If executed properly, the squeeze play usually leads to a score.
< 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. >
LOL. You can believe what you want.
Just one quick thing to point out.
The article says one in five teens have engaged in this behavior.
That means that FOUR OF FIVE HAVE NOT.
Always read the statistical analysis in reverse for the real story.
I don't buy that. I think it was more common for boys than girls to admit it.
If it walks like a duck, looks like a duck...
More British State Religion of Darwinist Evolutionist Karmic-Re-Incarnationist...
.....British Rhodes Scholar...Anti-Christian-Bible,... 'Cult' worldviews...
/British.....'A Clockwork Orange'.......'internationalist' judicial systems
.....swine......in the 'Public Schools of the British NEA???
Why does this remind me of Bill Clinton and a description of the, *ahem*, 'pickup' truck he had.
< ... the term abstinence in my experience also covers pretty much everything past kissing, and doesn't make exceptions for oral sex or any other kind of non-vaginal sexual activity. >
Agreed.
BTW, in my niece's "abstinence only" education literature (my sister read it), oral and anal are included. Shoots Quick1's theory to Hell-o.
"At my daughter's high school the girls give out BJ's like it's no big deal. They don't have to be going out with the guy, they just have to like him a little bit."
Doesn't surprise me. What DID surprise me was the following quote from the article; I figured girls were giving more than getting:
"It was more common for boys to have performed oral sex on girls than vice versa, the report said."
This whole silliness is a convenient way to keep sluts from realizing what they really are: sluts. People are least honest when it comes to themselves. I made a few mistakes long ago, but I faced them head on! Facing reality, refusing to gloss over it, and taking the lessons to heart is the only way anyone'll ever change or gain respect again.
"The President Who Taught Kids That Fellatio Is Not Sex"
"..or dental dam."
Would this not stop the whole act? I don't know ... er remember.
< It was more common for boys to have performed oral sex on girls than vice versa, the report said.
Indeed. Thanks for the ping!
That was weird. As far as I can tell from what I overhear, the guys are doing the getting. It's easier for them to drop trou and get back together quickly than it would be for the girls.
That's the first thought that came to mind when told recently of the (high school)freshman girls/senior boys "lipstick" party where there are now a couple dozen cases of Herpes, but I think we can also thank Hollywood with its' sexed up movies/tv shows and the internet with the graphic porn pop-ups and (sl)easy access to thousands of sites.
Our culture and society are going down the tubes at lightning speed.
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