Last week I wrote a “Youth Culture Window” article on a subject I would earmark as very important, Are Teenagers Really Having Less Sex? And How to Continue This Trend. The interesting part of this whole study is the fact that no one knows why teenagers are having less sex. What’s your theory?
Here’s the situation. If you read the article- and I encourage you to take 5 minutes and do so– you’ll see that sexual activity has gone down from the late 1980′s to 2002ish. Since then… no statistically significant change (a fact overlooked by most the headlines). So the question I asked the CDC, the “National Campaign,” and Pam Stenzel’s ministry is this:
In a country where media is growing more gratuitously sexual and porn is ubiquitous, why are less teenagers having sex?
Then I asked this follow-up question:
And at the same time that sex is decreasing, why do STD’s seem to be either growing, or at least more apparant?
I posted my two cents and the opinions of the experts I interviewed in the artcicle. I’d love you to give the article a quick read and then chime in with your two cents- what you’ve observed- using the articles comments feature.
Your thoughts?