American youth ‘too busy to have sex’
March 4th, 2011 - 2:45 pm ICT by ANISydney, March 04 (ANI): A government survey has shown that fewer American teens and young adults are having sex.
The reason, experts say, could be that this generation is more cautious than their predecessors, more aware of sexually spread diseases. Or perhaps emphasis on abstinence in the past decade has had some influence.
Or maybe they’re just too busy.
The study is based on interviews of about 5300 young people, ages 15 to 24. It shows the proportion in that age group who said they’d never had oral, vaginal or anal sex rose in the past decade from 22 per cent to about 28 per cent, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.
That the trend began in the late 1980s seems to undermine the idea that abstinence-only sex education - heavily emphasised during the 2001-2009 presidency of George W Bush - is the explanation, said Bill Albert, chief program officer for the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy.
But it is possible those messages contributed, he added.
“This generation is very focused on their future and not necessarily getting laid,” agreed Washington, DC-based sex educator Yvonne Fulbright.
The study showed that 27 per cent of young men and 29 per cent of young women reported no sexual contact.(ANI)
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