Oral Sex Safe and Not Really Sex, Say U.S. Teens
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Oooooooh boy. It seems our children really do or have learned from past leaders. In this case, on Bubba Clinton would seem to have been the educator.
Read on.
(From Reuters, found on My Way News, via DrudgeReport.com)
Oral Sex Safe and Not Really Sex, Say U.S. Teens
Apr 4, 10:33 AM (ET)
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.
So we have yet more proof we are raising a generation of idiots, or at least ill-informed and under-educated children in the specific area of sexual education.
Look, I'm no prude. Far from it actually. For the most part, what happens in the bedroom of a group of consenting adults (and possibly even young adults, but I would mature ones at that) is between those individuals, unless one side or the other is being abused.
With that said, it seems obvious, and this report confirms, that our children are running around under-informed and ill-prepared for the dangers of having sex. I don't know that I want the sex education programs that Montgomery County Maryland (as an example, see prior articles) is proposing and implementing (that program seems far too liberal, up to and including tacit condoning and promoting of gay sex acts and more) but something has to be done.
We can't have our children running around thinking that they can engage in sex acts without consequences, or, in the ultimate Bill Clinton mode, feeling that "oral" sex is not sex at all.
These kids must be told what they are thinking is wrong, and they must understand the information they are given. We can't afford to waste our most precious resources (our children) to lives complicated with STDs, teen pregnancy or other issues that come from engaging in sex before being educated enough and mature enough to understand the consequences.
Read on.
(From Reuters, found on My Way News, via DrudgeReport.com)
Oral Sex Safe and Not Really Sex, Say U.S. Teens
Apr 4, 10:33 AM (ET)
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.
So we have yet more proof we are raising a generation of idiots, or at least ill-informed and under-educated children in the specific area of sexual education.
Look, I'm no prude. Far from it actually. For the most part, what happens in the bedroom of a group of consenting adults (and possibly even young adults, but I would mature ones at that) is between those individuals, unless one side or the other is being abused.
With that said, it seems obvious, and this report confirms, that our children are running around under-informed and ill-prepared for the dangers of having sex. I don't know that I want the sex education programs that Montgomery County Maryland (as an example, see prior articles) is proposing and implementing (that program seems far too liberal, up to and including tacit condoning and promoting of gay sex acts and more) but something has to be done.
We can't have our children running around thinking that they can engage in sex acts without consequences, or, in the ultimate Bill Clinton mode, feeling that "oral" sex is not sex at all.
These kids must be told what they are thinking is wrong, and they must understand the information they are given. We can't afford to waste our most precious resources (our children) to lives complicated with STDs, teen pregnancy or other issues that come from engaging in sex before being educated enough and mature enough to understand the consequences.
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