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Discuss: Youth having less sex
Story here. What do you think is driving that? What do you think is different about today?
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Re: Discuss: Youth having less sex
One would hope that they are getting better information about the risks associated with being sexually active and choosing to wait. I know that my siblings with kids of that age have been a lot more proactive about talking to their kids about safe sex than even our parents were, hopefully that's a trend.
On the flip side though, I thought I saw that teen pregnancies have not decreased so apparently less kids are sexually active but those that are aren't using birth control?
I feel like the widespread use of the internet is a big one. It's easier to get access to information about sex, including the risks. You don't have to go through your parents, rely on sex ed or the misinformation or your peers, or resign yourself to just not knowing.
Although, personally, my interest in sex rose dramatically when I got the internet (unrestricted access to it, no less). And with all the free porn available, I'm surprised boys aren't even hornier now...?
Maybe boys are hornier but girls are smarter?
Women don't want to hear what men think,
women want to hear what they think, in a deeper voice
Ha!
I personally don't think telling kids not to have sex has much effect, and there was plenty of information available on sex, pregnancy prevention, STD's, etc. when I was that age.
I don't think there's a silver bullet, or one reason in particular for the results of this study. But I do think being busy has a lot to do with it. I just talked to a senior at a local high school this week who has to commute to school from another city and gets up at 5:30 a.m. She doesn't get home from school and extra-curricular activities till after 7, does her homework and goes to sleep. I can see how someone like that is too busy and tired to be thinking much about boys, dating, sex, etc.