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About Teens and Sex
The Ohio Youth Risk Behavior Survey, as well as many other quality surveys of youth behavior consistently report that 64% of high school seniors have had a sexual experience.
Inadvertently this leads many teachers, parents and youth themselves to give in to the fact that sexual behavior among teens is inevitable.
But when taken in the context of several other facts, promoting abstinence among teens is still the easiest, healthiest and best road to take.
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Of sexually active teens, more than half report that they “should have waited”.
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Over 35% of youth who had sex before age 15 report being coerced.
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One in five sexually active teens has, or has had a sexually transmitted disease.
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Becoming sexually active at age 16 or earlier puts your lifetime risk of someday contracting a sexually transmitted disease at 60%. Waiting until age 20 reduces that risk to 15%.
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The trend is beginning to change: Approval of casual sex among college freshman is down to 39.6% from 50% fifteen years ago.
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Of high school students, grade 9-12, only 47% report ever having had sex. Abstinence is the majority!
It allows them to develop healthy and meaningful relationships, preserve their physical and emotional health, and reduce their chance of becoming a teen parent to “0”.
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