Abstinence, teenagers and sex
• Sexual Health
From the April issue of the Journal of Adolescent Health:
Among virgins, boys who have pledged abstinence were four times more likely to have had anal sex, according to the study. Overall, pledgers were six times more likely to have oral sex than teens who have remained abstinent but not as part of a pledge. Just 2 percent of youth who never took a pledge said they had had anal or oral sex but not intercourse, compared to 13 percent of "consistent pledgers."
Depends what you mean by abstinence
In Australia:
In the latest study the majority of young people in Years 10 and 12 were sexually active in some way, engaging in activities including deep kissing (80 per cent); genital touching (67 per cent) and oral sex (45.5 per cent). In addition approximately 25 per cent of students in Year 10 and just over half of those in Year 12 had engaged in vaginal intercourse. ...
Rates of condom use have in fact remained steady over the last decade with up to 90 per cent of young people at least using them some of the time. These figures nevertheless mask some of the difficulties young people face in making sex safe as 73 per cent of sexually active students who reported having a condom available at their last sexual encounter but only 65 per cent had used it. In addition 23 per cent of the students in this study indicated that they were drunk or high the last time they has sex and just over a quarter reported having had unwanted sex at some time in their lives.