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HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW ABOUT TEEN SEXUAL BEHAVIOR? A TRUE-FALSE QUIZ By Emily Holcombe, B.A., Kristen Peterson, B.A., and Jennifer Manlove, Ph.D. Link to facts from childtrends.org.

New study: Adolescents who receive comprehensive sex ed are half as likely to become pregnant as adolesents who receive abstinance-only education, or No education at all.

Why do teens start having sex? While the media bombards us with alarming statistics about the number of teenagers having sex, few reports shed light on what might encourage teens to become sexually active in the first place. <Read More>

Teens and Sex “In one of the first surveys of its kind, teenagers as young as 13 reveal how much they know about sex and how much they are doing .” Survey by NBC News and People Magazine conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates International.

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Articles


Oral Sex
Teen Twist on Sex: Oral Sex, it’s not just boys on the receiving end (Time, September 26, (2005) Rainbow parties: Are teens at risk (Plain Dealer, July, 2005)

STDs
Teen STD rates climb even as pregnancy drops (July 12, 2008, Cleveland PD) Youth make up a staggering -- and growing -- majority of reported sexually transmitted infections in Cuyahoga County. More than 70 percent of reported chlamydia infections and almost 60 percent of gonorrhea cases in 2006 were reported among those ages 15 to 24. A steady number of infections were to preteens, some as young as 10, according to the Cleveland Department of Public Health, which compiles numbers for the county. <read more>

1 in 4 teen girls has an STD; half admit having sex (Plain Dealer, March 12, 2008 To talk about abstinence is not a bad thing," but teen girls - and boys too - need to be informed about how to protect themselves if they do have sex, Alderman said. The overall STD rate among the 838 girls in the study was 26 percent, which translates to more than 3 million girls nationwide, researchers with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found

Sex Disease Rates Soar in Cleveland (Plain Dealer, July 2005)

Teen Sex: too much too soon (Plain Dealer, July 16, 2005)

General Info
Nearly One in Five Young Women Have Experienced Forced Intercourse (Child Trends, Sept. 12, 2008)
New research from Child Trends finds that 18 percent of women age 18 to 24 report having experienced forced sexual intercourse at least once in their lives. The research, summarized in a fact sheet entitled Forced Sexual Intercourse Among Young Adult Women, also shows: <Read More>

Let's talk about sex; With teen pregnancy making headlines, it's a good time for parents to get their heads out of the sand (RD March 2008). ...surveys show that about four in ten sexually experienced teen girls say their parents don't know.

The many myths of teenage sex (Plain Dealer, Feb. 6, 2008) Doctor Phil, as he's called, is an inner-city pediatrician. He is the medical director of both the Juvenile Detention Center and New Directions adolescent drug and alcohol treatment center.

A Snapshot of Teen Sex (Time, Feb. 7, 2005)

When teens turn to no-strings sex (Plain Dealer, Nov. 5, 2004)

Study links teen sex, suggestive TV fare (Plain Dealer Sept. 9, 2004)

Sex, drugs and teens a likely mix (Plain Dealer August 20, 2004)