Try out PMC Labs and tell us what you think. Learn More. A study of nearly young California teenagers indicates that, having been told to be abstinent and warned of dangers of sex such as pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases, they have decided that oral sex is the safest choice Pediatrics ; Previous studies indicated that many young people choose to have oral sex and don't consider it "real sex. Publication of that study coincided with the impeachment trial of Bill Clinton, at which he denied sexual relations with Monica Lewinsky, who had performed oral sex on him. The authors of the Pediatrics study say that teenagers see oral sex as a way of preserving their virginity while allowing intimacy and sexual pleasure. However, teenagers think oral sex is safer than it is. The study looked at young teenagers' perceptions of risks and benefits and sexual decision making relating to oral sex and vaginal sex. The lead author, Bonnie Halpern-Felsher, associate professor of paediatrics and adolescent medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, said that parents and health providers who work with young people should be aware that young adolescents are having oral sex or considering it as more acceptable than vaginal sex. Her report was part of a two and half year longitudinal study that involved ethnically diverse adolescents at two California high schools in middle class city suburbs.
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Your contributions will help us continue to deliver the stories that are important to you. Roisin Lacey SC, defending, said the incident, which lasted for about ten seconds before the girl ran off, was stage managed by the older boy. Her client, now aged 17, subsequently pleaded guilty to engaging in a sexual act with a child at a place in Co. Dublin on 25 August The Central Criminal Court heard that four days earlier the older boy forced the girl to give him oral sex while other boys, including the 14 year old, were present nearby. Some of these took images of the incident though this defendant did not. The defendant had his hands down by his side during the incident and did not touch the girl or say anything to her, Ms Lacey said. Her client believed there would be adverse postings about him on social media, she said. She said the incident was a once off act stage-managed by the older boy.
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T wo articles in December's Family Planning Perspectives —both extensively reported in the New York Times and USA Today —might make you think that the nation's teens have just started to indulge in new, dangerous sexual practices that require a forceful response from public health officials. But look closer, and you'll see that the articles are less about health than politics. Unquestionably, the sexual behavior the two articles depict is profoundly disturbing. One in ten boys aged 15 through 19, for example, has had anal sex with girls. Far more commonplace is oral sex, with teens now viewing it as something, like kissing, that you might do with someone you don't care about much. Many virgins, viewing oral sex as "not really sex," think they're remaining abstinent when they do it. So pervasive among teens has oral sex become, experts warn, that oral herpes and pharyngeal gonorrhea are on the rise. Most troubling is the growing acceptance of this "body-part sex" as early as the seventh grade. Some and year-old girls, it seems, consider fellatio the necessary price of hanging on to a cool boyfriend or looking sophisticated to friends; and, they reason, it removes some of the pressure to go all the way.
