{"id":21673,"date":"2022-11-17T15:04:47","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T15:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/empoweredgenerations.com\/?p=21673"},"modified":"2022-11-17T15:04:47","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T15:04:47","slug":"statistics-on-teen-sex-trends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/empoweredgenerations.com\/statistics-on-teen-sex-trends\/","title":{"rendered":"Statistics on Teen Sex Trends"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-21677 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/empoweredgenerations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Empowered-Website-Article-Header-300x169.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"405\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/empoweredgenerations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Empowered-Website-Article-Header-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/empoweredgenerations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Empowered-Website-Article-Header-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/empoweredgenerations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Empowered-Website-Article-Header-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/empoweredgenerations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Empowered-Website-Article-Header-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/empoweredgenerations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Empowered-Website-Article-Header.png 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 405px) 100vw, 405px\" \/><\/h1>\n<h1><b>Statistics on Teen Sex Trends:<\/b><\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a recent national study, which defined &#8220;having sex&#8221; as including vaginal, anal, or oral sex, researchers found that the median age of sexual initiation to be 16 years for both males and females. By age 19, 75% of youth have had vaginal, anal, and\/or oral sex [1].<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Among young people aged 15-19, 45% have had oral sex with a different-sex partner [2].<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sexual initiation prior to the age of 16 generally is less likely to be consensual, and less likely to involve contraception, than sexual initiation at later ages. It is also a risk factor for teen pregnancy. Having vaginal intercourse at an early age is associated with having a greater number of sexual partners and having concurrent partners<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> [3].<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sexually experienced youth aged 14-19 are quite likely to report having had at least three sexual partners &#8211; just under half of females (45%) and just over half of males (55%) have had three or more partners. Among high school students, 10% of males and 7% of girls report having four or more sexual partners in their lifetime [4].<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Sources<\/b><b><br \/>\n<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[1]\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Liu, G., Hariri, S., Bradley, H., Gottlieb, S. L., Leichliter, J. S., &amp; Markowitz, L. E. (2015). Trends and patterns of sexual behaviors among adolescents and adults aged 14 to 59 years, United States. Sexually Transmitted Diseases, 42(1), 20-26. <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/doi.org\/10.1097\/OLQ.0000000000000231\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">doi.org\/10.1097\/OLQ.0000000000000231<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[2]\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Guttmacher Institute. (2019, September). Adolescent sexual and reproductive health in the United States [Fact sheet]. <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/guttmacher.org\/fact-sheet\/american-teens-sexual-and-reproductive-health\"><b>guttmacher.org\/fact-sheet\/american-teens-sexual-and-reproductive-health<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[3]\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Heywood, W., Patrick, K., Smith, A. M. A., &amp; Pitts, M. K. (2015). Associations between early first sexual intercourse and later sexual and reproductive outcomes: A systematic review of population-based data. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 44, 531-569. doi:10.1007\/s10508-014-0374-3<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[4]\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2020, August 21). Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance &#8211; United States, 2019. MMWR Supplement, 69(1). For another way to access YRBS data, including state and regional results, see the interactive database Youth Online at:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nccd.cdc.gov\/youthonline\/App\/Results.aspx\"><b>nccd.cdc.gov\/youthonline\/App\/Results.aspx<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Statistics on Teen Sex Trends: \u00a0In a recent national study, which defined &#8220;having sex&#8221; as including vaginal, anal, or oral sex, researchers found that the median age of sexual initiation to be 16 years for both males and females. By age 19, 75% of youth have had vaginal, anal, and\/or oral sex [1]. &nbsp; Among&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":21677,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,12,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/empoweredgenerations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21673"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/empoweredgenerations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/empoweredgenerations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empoweredgenerations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empoweredgenerations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/empoweredgenerations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21678,"href":"https:\/\/empoweredgenerations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21673\/revisions\/21678"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empoweredgenerations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/empoweredgenerations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empoweredgenerations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empoweredgenerations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}