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That's What He Said: What Guys Think About Sex, Love, Contraception, and Relationships (2010)
1200 male teens and young men ages 15-22 were interviewed online. Here are just a few of the statistics:
- 78% agreed there is "way too much pressure" from society to have sex.
-57% admitted having unprotected sex (47% of the younger group, 63% of the older).
- 30% said they would have sex even if they didn't have a condom.
- About 33% said they've had sex with a girl when they knew she was drunk (careful, girls!).
- 1 in 6 admitted they've not used protection unless their partner insisted.
- 15% didn't know that condoms aren't foolproof.
- 23% have lied about not being virgins when they actually were.
- 7 out of 10 guys said that a girl who has "sexted" (sent/posted nude or semi-nude images of herself electronically) is not girlfriend material.
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Sex and Texting
One in five teen girls(11% of teen girls ages 13-16 years old)say they have electronically sent, or posted online, nude or semi-nude images of themselves.
According to the results of a survey released today by The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy and CosmoGirl.com, these racy images are also getting passed around: One-third (33%) of teen boys and one-quarter (25%) of teen girls say they have had nude/semi-nude images-originally meant to be private-shared with them.
Other findings from the survey include:
* Even more have received sexually suggestive messages: 48% of teens and 64% of young adults (56% total). Fully one-third of young teen girls (ages 13-16) have received sexually suggestive messages.
* Teen girls who have sent or posted sexually suggestive content provide a number of reasons why - 66% say they did so to be "fun or flirtatious," 52% did so as a "sexy present" for their boyfriend, and 40% as a "joke."
* Even though nearly three-quarters of young people say that sending sexually suggestive content "can have serious negative consequences," nearly 22% total say sending sexually suggestive content is "no big deal."
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Family First: Boys Brag about Sex
KATV - Teenage boys like to talk about it and, sometimes, they exaggerate.
"All they talk about is sex," 17 year old Tyler says. "You go walking down the hallway...sex, sex, sex. 'Hey I had sex with her, I had sex with him.'
In a new Seventeen magazine survey of boys and young men, almost half said they were virgins and one in four said he had lied to other kids about not being a virgin.
According to the survey of 1,200 boys and young men, age 15 to 22, 60 percent said they lied about
something sexual, 30 percent lied about "how far they had gone," and 78 percent said that there was too much pressure from society to have sex.
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