What do kids know about safer sex, and how do they use that knowlege?
At this point, I've only got personal and anecdotal evidence from my short stints doing safer sex ed at the DiFrank Center in San Jose, and from teachers. I'm looking for reputable statistics on what kids know about safer sex and how they use that knowledge. I'm also looking for statistics on myths and mis perceptions kids and adults have about safer sex. This includes concepts like the "virgin cure" that's popular in talk about AIDS in Africa and Asia. I have no idea if the "virgin cure" myth is it's self a myth, though..
Some quick statistics: One in five ninth graders in this CA study has had oral sex. Why? They think it's less risky than vaginal sex, and that it does not 'count' in terms of virginity.
America has one of the highest teen pregnancy rates worldwide
Sweden has one of the lowest rates worldwide
Effective, safe, free and anonymous emergency contraception is available in most areas of Europe. In America, it's been held up for ideological reasons
I think we know what works. I think kids in America know about the existence of condoms just as well as kids in Europe do. So what's the difference? Why are European teens, who as far as I can tell, have sex just as much as American teens, getting pregnant or infected with STDs at such a dramatically lower rate?
Some quick statistics: One in five ninth graders in this CA study has had oral sex. Why? They think it's less risky than vaginal sex, and that it does not 'count' in terms of virginity.
America has one of the highest teen pregnancy rates worldwide
Sweden has one of the lowest rates worldwide
Effective, safe, free and anonymous emergency contraception is available in most areas of Europe. In America, it's been held up for ideological reasons
I think we know what works. I think kids in America know about the existence of condoms just as well as kids in Europe do. So what's the difference? Why are European teens, who as far as I can tell, have sex just as much as American teens, getting pregnant or infected with STDs at such a dramatically lower rate?
posted by Josh Jasper at 12:32 PM
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I don't know the stats but I wouldn't assume that kids here in the UK are having safer sex than US kids. A quick google search gives us this:
A study by Dr. David Paton of Nottingham University Business School has found no evidence that providing family panning reduces either underage conception or abortion rates among teen-age girls under age 16 in the U.K. Figures compiled by the U.K. Office of National Statistics for 2000 revealed that 4,382 girls under age 16 had abortions, up 200 from the year before and a rise of more than 20% over the 1992 figure of 3,510. In fact Paton’s study, published in the March 2002 edition of the Journal of Health Economics, has found some evidence that greater access to family planning services is associated with an increase in underage pregnancy.
The UK has one of the highest rates of teen-age pregnancy in Europe.
Most of these kids have sex education at school. Most probably think if you have sex standing up in a wardrobe then you can't get pregnant and all the other old hoary myths.
My view (and Im no neo conservative) too much sex on TV, too much sex in teen magazines, too many parents 'sexualizing' their little girls too early
too much empahsis on bodily attraction rather than being attracted to the inner person.
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