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Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Adolescent sexual behavior

In 2002, an international survey carried out, with the aim of studying the sexual behavior of adolescents. gari survey of 33,943 students aged 15, from 24 countries, consisting of a standard questionnaire, developed by the HBSC (Health Behaviour in School-aged Children) international research network. This survey revealed that most students are still virgins (they do not have any experience of sexual relations), and, among those who are sexually active, the majority (82%) using contraceptives. 


(In the United States :Main articles: Adolescent sexuality in the United States) Changes in the expression of adolescent sexuality in the United States find their origins in the sexual revolution and the focus of the "culture wars". The U.S. federal government under George W. Bush's policy of emphasizing sexual abstinence or chastity, especially in sex education with a focus on abstinence-only sex education than the loss of focus reduction approach safer sex.
 
 It extended this approach to foreign policy, using threats to attract foreign aid to pressure NGOs to put an end to condom education and distribution in third world countries. There is ongoing debate between those who advocate a comprehensive, medically accurate sex education and those who regard education as a consensus-based abstinence only "values ​​held by most Americans" 

According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in 2007 47.8% of U.S. high school students reported having had sexual intercourse. This number has shown a downward trend since 1991, when the figure was 54.1% [5] According to a survey conducted by NBC News and People magazine, 87% of 13 -. Reported a 16-year-olds because they never had sexual intercourse, and 73% for not reporting sexual intercourse at all. Three quarters of respondents said they are not because they feel too young, and as many say they have made a conscious decision not to. 


The same survey found while only 27% of 13 - to 16-year-olds have been involved in intimate or sexual activity, 8% had regular sexual relations, which have been described by one journalist as a shift "deep culture of dating and sex in high school "In his book., Why Gender Matters, researcher Leonard Sax states that teenage sexual encounter increasingly taking place outside the context of romantic relationships, in a purely sexual" hookups ". 


In 2002, Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health The National reported a "dramatic trend toward early initiation of sex 'According to the American Academy of Pediatrics" early sexual intercourse among American adolescents is a major public health problem .. Although early sexual activity can be caused by various factors, media are believed to play an important role U.S. teens rank the media second only to school sex education programs as their main source of information about sex. ". 


The U.S. teen pregnancy rate is higher than in many other developed countries]. After declining steadily since 1991, the teenage pregnancy rate increased 3% in 2006, to 41.9 per 1,000 births. This follows a 14-year downward trend in which the adolescent birth rate fell 34% from 1991 peak 61.8 births per 1,000.
Public health officials expressed concern that sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and risk behaviors that include "anything but the relationship" is "rampant" among teenagers. Of the 18.9 million new cases of STDs each year, 9.1 million (48%) occurred among 15 - to 24-year-olds, although this age group represents only a quarter of the sexually active population [11] According to a study in in 2008 by the CDC, an estimated 1 in 4 teen girls has at least one STI. at any given time. 


Increasing levels of oral sex among teenagers has been reported. But a study released in 2008 by the Guttmacher Institute found that, while oral sex is slightly more common than vaginal sex among adolescents, the prevalence of oral sex among teenagers of the opposite sex partners have held steady over the last ten years. According to the study, slightly more than half (55%) of 15 - to 19-year-olds have engaged in heterosexual oral sex, 50% had had vaginal sex and 11% had had anal sex. 


Among sexually active 15 - to 19-year-olds, 83% female and 91% of men reported using at least one method of birth control during last intercourse [15] The most common method of contraception condoms and birth control pills .. In 2007, 61.5% of high school students reported using a condom the last time they had sexual intercourse, up from 46% in 1991. 


CDC also tracks the percentage of students who said they used drugs or alcohol before sex. While this is risky behavior increased between 1991 and 2001, the trend has been declining since then [5] In 2007., 22.5% middle school students reported this risk behavior, down from 25.6% in 2001.
Most teens (70%) reported that they received some or a lot of information about sex and sexual relationships of their parents. Other information sources include friends in 53%, the school, also at 53%, TV and movie magazines at 51% and 34%. Schools and the magazine is said to be used as a source of more information with the girls than by the children, and adolescents are sexually active are more likely to mention their friends and partners as a source of information. 


In the U.S., 431 schools in fifty districts (0.35% of all counties and 2.2% of all high schools nationwide) has established a school-based condom availability programs. These programs involve the distribution of condoms, condom-use education and information, peer support, education, sex and STDs in the curriculum, and parental involvement, staff, partnerships, and healthcare providers. Research has shown that condom availability programs in high schools can reduce the risk of HIV, STD, and teen pregnancy. In all schools, condom use increased while sexual behavior remains the same among high school students after the implementation of condom availability program

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