Teenagers are having more sex than ever before, at an earlier age - and in ways their parents wouldn't dream of. Remember your first fumble in the dark? Sneaking around, hormones pumping, wrestling with clothing, the thrill of the illicit before crossing the threshold of first touch, first kiss, first sex. Memories of the first time are tinged with feelings of awkwardness, excitement and wistfulness. War stories and boasts of adolescent escapades form a key part of the narrative of our lives. Yet the mention of teenage sex often sparks moral panic among older generations, convinced today's youngsters are more lascivious, morally looser and less responsible than they were.

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After decades in which researchers concerned about teenage pregnancy focused only on intercourse, a study by the Urban Institute, financed by the federal government, provides the first national data on the sexual practices of to year-old boys. With young people engaging in a growing variety of sexual behaviors, public health experts said they were increasingly concerned that teenagers did not understand the risks of sexually transmitted diseases and were confused about what constituted abstinence. They're not protecting themselves; they don't understand the risks of transmitting infection between the genital and oral areas. Most sexually transmitted diseases -- whether viral, like herpes and hepatitis B, or bacterial, like gonorrhea, syphilis and chlamydia -- can be transmitted orally or genitally. Although most researchers say H. According to the study, many teenage boys are engaging in sexual activities that include oral and anal sex. Sonenstein, director of the Population Studies Center at the Urban Institute and one of the study's authors. The report of findings from the National Survey of Adolescent Males is being released today in the latest issue of Family Planning Perspectives, a publication of the Alan Guttmacher Institute. The issue includes a report on the policy implications of oral sex among young people..
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T eenagers and young adults are engaging in a wider variety of sexual practices than they did 20 years ago, according to a new study in the Journal of Adolescent Health. The researchers analyzed more than 45, interviews from three surveys of British residents ages 16 to 24, conducted every decade. The people interviewed in the first survey were born in the s, while those in the most recent survey were born between in the s. In all three surveys over the year period, vaginal sex was the most common sexual practice. But the percentages of sexually active people who also reported having had oral and anal sex in the last year increased over time, from 1 in 10 people in to 1 in 4 men, and 1 in 5 women, in
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