Tag Archives: teens
Smartphones Linked to Teen Sex
Don’t panic, parents, but smartphones have been associated with higher rates of teen sex, says new research from UCLA. In a study, nearly half of teens who toted cellphones with internet access said they were sexually active; only a third …
Can past events predict future results? Maybe not with stocks, but when it comes to sex, the age at which a recent study’s participants had sexual intercourse for the first time foretold whether they’d be romantically satisfied later in life.
Parents (and politicians) who were concerned that giving their sons and daughters the HPV vaccine could make them more likely to have sex can rest easy: A new study published in the journal Pediatrics found that getting the vaccine does …
The number of U.S. teens ages 15 to 17 having oral sex has decreased from 2002, according to the National Survey of Family Growth. More than a third of teens have had oral sex by the time they turn 17, …
The “right” way to teach children about sex is a hot-button issue, and one of the latest headlines involves a widely criticized pro-abstinence Tennessee sex education law commonly referred to as the “no holding hands” bill: Educators are prohibited from …
Never underestimate the allure of forbidden fruit. According to a recent study of 11th- and 12th-grade girls by Bar-Ilan University, 17 percent of secular girls said they surf porn sites, while a full 33 percent of Haredi and Ultra-Orthodox girls …
New Survey: 18 Percent of Adults Sext
There’s been a lot of hand-wringing in recent years about teenagers sending each other lewd or graphic text messages, but a new poll by mobile safety company Lookout found that 18 percent of adults say they sext. And it’s not …
Dating Advice from Hottie Jon Hamm
Is there anything that gorgeous specimen Jon Hamm can’t do? Case in point: As part of online teen magazine Rookie’s “Ask a Grown Man” series, Hamm, 41, answered five romance-related questions from teen readers…while casually sporting a Cardinals T-shirt (go …
Let’s hear it for sex ed. A study conducted by reproductive health organization the Guttmacher Institute found that students who had had some form of sex education (abstinence-only or comprehensive) were more likely to wait to have sex and use …
Teen Sex Rates Down, Condom Use Up
A new Centers for Disease Control study has found that less than half teens say they have had premarital sexual intercourse, a figure that’s down several percentage points from 2002.
