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A talk with the coauthor of the new teen-sex study, who says shocking rumors aren't the real story.
By Raina Kelley | Newsweek Web Exclusive
May 23, 2008 | Updated: double anal thumbnail 6:53 p.m. ET May 23, 2008
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Is it true, as Oprah Winfrey said in 2003, that there is an "oral-sex epidemic" among America's teenagers? Ever since stories emerged in The New York Times and USA Today about the supposed occurrence of "rainbow parties," at which girls put on different shades of lipstick and give oral anal bleacing sex to a group of boys ninety year olds anal (producing the "rainbow"), there has been an acute interest in and questions about the sexual behavior of teens. But despite all the concerns, no one seemed to ask if the epidemic really existed. Researchers from the Guttmacher Institute have done the first gay anal stories national study of teenagers and noncoital sexual activity and have found that while over half of 15-to-19-year-olds have engaged in oral sex, they do he wants anal not appear to be substituting oral sex for sex cum horse anal intercourse, nor are they commonly having oral sex with multiple partners. NEWSWEEK's Raina Kelley spoke to study coauthor Rachel Jones about why the myth has persisted.
NEWSWEEK: Precisely what did your study find?
Rachel Jones: Contrary to popular perception, large numbers of teens are not substituting oral sex [or anal sex] for vaginal sex [in order to] maintain their technical virginity.
What was the impetus to do this study?
There seemed to be anal sex forums all these media reports sensationalizing tight teen anal galleries rapidly rising rates of oral sex among adolescents ... so we wanted to look at the anal sex- how to guide numbers to see if it was actually true.
Why did the public think teenagers were substituting noncoital sexual activity for vaginal sex?
Were they, in fact, simply having this kind of sexual activity moms first anal in larger numbers?
We really think it was just because of these anecdotal media reports--it [so-called rainbow parties] does occur; but it's not as common as we think. If we hear that some teens are doing it, people start to think that all teens are doing it.
Do you think that pressure to stay abstinent created first time gay anal sex an atmosphere where we believed teens' sexual patterns had changed in response?
All we basically had were anecdotal reports and studies going back a couple of decades showing that teens believed that you could have anal sex and still be a virgin when you get married. In my experience doing this kind of research, the idea of abstinence and teenage giant anal insertions sexuality is something that naturally gets sensationalized. And adults tend to pay more attention to the anecdotes rather than the facts.
Who did you survey to get your results?
We looked at the government's National Survey of Family Growth from 2002. It is the first and only nationally representative study of sex among male and female adolescents. It looked at 2,271 females and males aged 15-19. In earlier research, studies of oral sex among teens tended to be within one gender or one school or one school district or a convenient sample [such as a health clinic or after-school group].
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