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.
I really don't think he is worshipped as a god, besides, the only place you ever hear about him, is here on FR!!
Do a "Google." He's worshiped by the MSM. He's in the news every d@mn day. They find a way to include him in EVERY Current Event. Grrrr!
http://news.google.com/news?q=Bill%20Clinton&hl=en&lr=&sa=N&tab=wn
Simple. Girls are lying about not giving it.
If oral sex isn't sex, then what is it? Is it a hobby or a pass-time? Is it just something to do while waiting for class to start? Is it a part-time job? If it's not brought about by sexual urges then why do people do it? It involves the sex organs, but it's not sex? It can result in an orgasm, but it's not sex? Inquiring minds want to know.
The press longs for all night pizza parties in the Whitehouse,the sleaze of sex outside of marriage, the rush of having the most powerful man in the world boldface lying to them, The stories of BC and HC fighting, and so much more. It all has to do with thier unending appetites for gossip they would never print such because they lose access. So its easier to undermine us and call us a VWRC. Because access gets them in on the gossip and they long for sleazy gossip.
define "is"
Wonderfully stated! BTTT
At least those boys know the way to a woman's heart is through a good whoop-de-do.
New definition of a "line drive" too...
Oral sex was definitely considered sex when I was in high school, and that wasn't much before Clinton, either. As far as today's 14- and 15-year-olds, they were 7 or 8 during the height of impeachment, certainly old enough to watch the omnipresent TV news go on and on and on about it. Moreover, they would be surrounded by the culture accepted by the older children who could not have missed it; and the oral-sex-is-not-sex meme has been repeated endlessly since.
WJC is squarely responsible for the current crop of children who are under the illusion that oral sex isn't really sex.
I just love baseball!
I believe that football is a much better analogy.
You have to make first downs until you make a touchdown.
You have short and long pass attempts, end runs, off sides, backfield in motion, etc.
................................yep, the devil in the loop....
Absolute Control.......
I guess since I don't actively look for references to him, and I only frequent FR, local news and local newspapers, with an occasional check on Fox...I am out of the loop. Where I live, as I said, about the only time I hear about him, is here on FR.
Yeah, and I think people even had sex, and thought about it...before mass media!!!
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