Teen Sexual Activity Statistics
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In 2002, it was estimated that 3.2 million teens under the age of 15 were living with hiv.1
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Of the 19 million new cases of sexually transmitted diseases that occurred in 2000, 9.1 million (48 percent) of those afflicted were young people ages 15 to 24.2
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21 percent of ninth graders have slept with 4 or more partners.2
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55 percent of teens ages 13 to 19 admitted to engaging in oral sex.3
Endnotes
1. Lisa Collier Cool, “The Secret Sex Lives of Kids,” Ladies’ Home Journal (March 2001): 156–159.
2. See Hillard Weinstock, Stuart Berman, and Willard Cates, Jr., “Sexually Transmitted Diseases Among American Youth: Incidence and Prevalence Estimates, 2000,” Alan Guttmacher Institute vol. 36, no. 1 (January/February 2004) at http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/journals/3600604.html
3. Seventeen, “National survey conducted by Seventeen finds that more than half of teens ages 15–19 have engaged in oral sex,” news release, February 28, 2000.