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40% lose virginity by 14th b'day, survey sez
BY BILL HUTCHINSON
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Urban teens are increasingly losing their virginity before they can legally drive.
A new survey shows four out of 10 city kids say they have had intercourse before age 14, and have engaged in oral and even anal sex by 17.
"This study makes clear that urban young adults engage in a variety of sexual behavior beyond vaginal intercourse," said Dr. Danielle Ompad, who authored the survey for The New York Academy of Medicine.
Ompad said the findings raise concerns about the possibility of a boom in sexually transmitted diseases among teens who don't know about safe sex.
"Sex education and intervention programs should address the risk for the unintended consequences of sexual behavior," Ompad said.
The study, published in The Archives of Sexual Behavior, examined the sexual habits of 2,311 Baltimore youths. But Ompad said, "I don't think other cities would be too different."
The study showed that 42% had engaged in vaginal intercourse by the age of 14. About 14% of kids said they had sex before the age of 13, a 9% jump from a similar survey by the Centers for Disease Control in 1995.
Former radio sex therapist Judy Kuriansky, author of "Generation Sex," said she found the results disturbing, but not surprising. Kuriansky said 14 is far too young to have sex.
"They're not emotionally capable of dealing with this," she told the Daily News. She blamed the youth sex surge on the media's obsession with sex and the explosion of sexually explicit Internet chat rooms.
40% lose virginity by 14th b'day, survey sez
BY BILL HUTCHINSON
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Urban teens are increasingly losing their virginity before they can legally drive.
A new survey shows four out of 10 city kids say they have had intercourse before age 14, and have engaged in oral and even anal sex by 17.
"This study makes clear that urban young adults engage in a variety of sexual behavior beyond vaginal intercourse," said Dr. Danielle Ompad, who authored the survey for The New York Academy of Medicine.
Ompad said the findings raise concerns about the possibility of a boom in sexually transmitted diseases among teens who don't know about safe sex.
"Sex education and intervention programs should address the risk for the unintended consequences of sexual behavior," Ompad said.
The study, published in The Archives of Sexual Behavior, examined the sexual habits of 2,311 Baltimore youths. But Ompad said, "I don't think other cities would be too different."
The study showed that 42% had engaged in vaginal intercourse by the age of 14. About 14% of kids said they had sex before the age of 13, a 9% jump from a similar survey by the Centers for Disease Control in 1995.
Former radio sex therapist Judy Kuriansky, author of "Generation Sex," said she found the results disturbing, but not surprising. Kuriansky said 14 is far too young to have sex.
"They're not emotionally capable of dealing with this," she told the Daily News. She blamed the youth sex surge on the media's obsession with sex and the explosion of sexually explicit Internet chat rooms.
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