The CDC has conducted an extensive survey of young people's sexual experiences and the published report is available here: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhsr/nhsr056.pdf
Technically, it focuses on first oral sex with a member of the opposite sex but it also asks about vaginal intercourse and looks at the temporal relationship of the two (e.g., did oral sex precede vaginal sex). Key points include (a) about 66% of females and males report ever having oral sex and (b) about 24-26% of females and males report having oral sex before vaginal sex. Background variables (e.g., parents education) affect these results. Of course, the popular media is picking up on this report and here is one source: http://www.healthnews.com/en/news/Oral-sex-not-outstripping-intercourse-among-US-youthstudy/2FYNJ3x_jAXfapDkH4F1VN/ Quoting from the article. |LESS SEX | |Teenage oral sex has declined slightly since 2002, as has vaginal sex, |the author of the CDC study Casey Copen said. She attributed the drop |to a "decreasing trend in sexual experience among teens." | |The study also revealed differences in experiences linked to race, education |and income. | |White youth and those from more educated, two-parent homes are more |likely than others their age to engage in oral sex first, the study showed. |It found that 44 percent of white youth had oral sex before vaginal sex, |compared to 30 percent of black youth. | |"A higher percentage of females and males who had oral sex, but not |yet had vaginal intercourse, had mothers who had some college education |or higher," the study found. | |Also, females who had oral sex, but had not yet had vaginal intercourse, |were more likely than others their age to live with two biological parents, |according to the study. Just a little bit of sex on an August Friday afternoon. ;-) -Mike Palij New York University [email protected] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=19803 or send a blank email to leave-19803-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
