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Teen Sexual Activity Statistics

In 2002, it was estimated that 3.2 million teens under the age of 15 were living with hiv.1
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
21 percent of ninth graders have slept with 4 or more partners.2
55 percent of teens ages 13 to 19 admitted to engaging in oral sex.3

Shannon Ethridge, Lindale, Texas

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.