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 More than a third of teens engage in oral sex by the time they reach 17, according to the CDC.
August 17th, 2012
10:41 AM ET
Fewer teens having oral sexFewer teens aged 15 to 17 are having oral sex now than in 2002, according to a new report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, but the number remains high. The report, based on data from The National Survey of Family Growth, found that more than a third of teens had engaged in oral sex by the time they turned 17. That number climbed to almost 50% by age 19, and more than 80% for 24-year-olds. The study - based on computer surveys given to over 6,000 teens - also looked at the timing of first oral sex in relation to the timing of first vaginal intercourse. It found that the prevalence of having oral sex before vaginal intercourse was about the same as those having vaginal intercourse before oral sex. "This new CDC analysis debunks many myths about when young people are initiating oral sex," wrote Leslie Kantor, vice president for education at Planned Parenthood, a family planning advocacy group. "Although there has never been data to support it, there has been the perception that many teens engage in oral sex as a 'risk-free' alternative to intercourse. But the CDC analysis shows that sexually active young people are likely to engage in both activities," she wrote. But oral sex, like vaginal intercourse, is not risk-free. According to the CDC's website, "numerous studies have demonstrated that oral sex can result in the transmission of HIV and other sexually transmitted disease," not the least of which is Human Papillomavirus (HPV), the disease known to cause both cervical and some throat cancers. "It's widely accepted that there is an increased number of head and neck cancers today due to changes in sexual practices in the '60s, '70s and '80s," - specifically, an increase in oral sex, said Dr. Otis Brawley, the chief medical officer of the American Cancer Society. Regardless of whether teens have oral or vaginal sex first, Kantor says, it's imperative they have the knowledge to make an educated decision about their sexual health. "We need to make sure that young people have the skills to negotiate what they do and don’t want to do in sexual relationships, as well as education about and access to condoms and birth control so that they can protect themselves from STDs and pregnancy and remain healthy," she wrote.
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If that's true, I guess I was a teenager in the Golden Age.
Me too lol
Interesting survey. Not a good article for serious comments though.
Chuck Norris!
...should shave his beard when he goes down.
Just call him 'Mr. Soggy Beard'.....
Why do underage people have sex? Dont they have anything else resposible to do?
yes, because the 3 minutes a teenage boy lasts will totally take up so much of their precious time to do anything else productive, like school, sports, volunteering so their college resumes look better, etc......
Three minutes?? What the heck do you do for the other two minutes and thirty seconds??
If you don't know why, you must be a virgin.
Good sex requires more than 2 minutes bro.
Are you kidding? You MAKE time for sex...
nothing irresponsible about practicing safe sex...sounds like you probably had a really lame young adulthood.
New survey finds more teens lying about when they had oral sex
This seems more likely lol
Yeah...."80% for 24-year-olds" have engaged in oral sex? We know the at least 20% of the survey respondents are lying.
Time to bring back Bill Clinton.
Riiight,, and they swore on the bible telling nothing but the truth...
These surveys might just show that kids are less willing do disclose their sexual habits learning from the many sexting and social site disasters.
Go for it, kids! Some think that pleasure is bad! Everything we do is risky, so why stop just sex?
I don't know......this story is a little hard to swallow.
Yeah, it left a bad taste in my mouth too.
LOL!!!!! +10 to you, sir. Well done!
I agree..... I cant quite put my hand on it but it sure seems like they are jerking us around. Ive thought long and hard about this issue to the point that my head feels like its going to explode but still cant come to any conclusions....no shocker there.
Spit it out, then.
Kinda like being married.
Oral sex? What's that? Is that when you are asking your wife if you might have sex at some point this week?
Amen brother!
That’s why you don’t ask your wife.
So, oral sex causes mouth and face cancer?!
Yes. Yes it does. And masturbation kills kittens too so don't do that either.
No, they just tell you that so that they hopefully scare you from doing it.
guess all those guys with colon cancer should have known better.
From talking with the guys here at work, none of our kids desire sex anymore (sons anyway). They just want to play computer games online, and don't even want to go out and drink like we did. What is wrong with kids these days?
Uh, they lie to their dads?
That's shy the birthrate is down in S. Korea.
Your kids are ugly, that's what's wrong.
Don't let 'em kid ya! They love it and can't get enough! Computer games and sexting and stuff is just spare time filler! LOL
Sorry Dad but the human sex drive is biological, not a trend. I for one miss all those conversations with my dad about banging chicks. /rolls eyes
When I was a teen, you could continue to play video games, while your girlfriend tended to your joystick's needs.
Thanks for the article CNN. It's nice to see that my hard earned tax dollars are going towards pointless research like this.
All these people who thing science and public health is "pointless". I wonder what they consider worth doing? Watching reality TV or re-programming ring tones on their phones?
@ cja
Reading the bible of course… but only the few versus their pastor tells them to. Don’t want them to know too much now do we?
Somebody had better come up with a solution to this decline or a lot of frustated people will be missing out on one of life's little pleasures.
To Cja:
Hey idiot. I'm all for science and research. Though, I could think of a few programs (like NASA for instance) that would take priority for research $$$ over research into "how often teenagers are having oral sex."
@ComebreakMe
Failing to use the reply button and calling someone else and idiot. You sir just made me laugh out loud.
Elect me and we will take away their condoms and other birth control!!! Elect me for more oral sex!!!!!
-nothing that a little post-sex listerine won't cure!
But if you use it after intercourse it is going to stiiiiiiiiing!
Oral sex causes head and neck cancer? That's really hilarious. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. ROFLOL.
Only for republicans. You know.....the ones with their heads up their a$$es.
Pegging is the new oral sex
But it's so good though. Plus no pregnancy. Support Oral!
The opposite of oral sex is written sex.
I like the hands on method.
There WILL be a quiz afterward. And a cuddle.
Yeah, they're doin' that too...it's called sexting. Just can't get enough of a good thing! No such thing as too much fun! LOL
Unfortunately, same goes for wives.
No. Your wife does just fine. Hahahahahhahahaahah
This is downright shocking... Let me tell you about the good ole days back in the 80s. It was oral sex all around.
Gahhh! That blows a hole in my business plan: I was making a pill to make a man's stuff taste like chocolate!
No, they're not. They're just sick of people asking them if they're doing it, so they lie and say no.
Who cares, I started doing all kinds of sex at age 14. I would have started sooner, but it took me so long to find the right girl who would put out. That's just how teens are. Get with the program. I will say this though, I always wrapped up, and did my best to ensure I only messed with virgins. I didn't want a disease or a kid. I was terrified of those two things.
It's always good news to hear that our teens (and probably early teens, at that) are heavily into any and all sorts of sex! For years our culture has insisted that they are totally abstinate and virgins til marriage and appalled at the very thought of yucky ol' sex! LOL
My first thought when I read the headline "Fewer Teens Having Oral Sex" was...sucks for them.
Well clearly they're not sucking anything.
http://www.Hear-The-Truth.com
HearTheTruth.imgur.com
I am really disgusted as to what passes for news these days! Teens shouldn't be having sex anyway, oral or otherwise!
I feel sorry for your childhood.
How many servicemen died in Afghanistan today to protect your right to print a story like this, CNN?
Unless you happen to live in Afghanistan, the Taliban were never a threat to free speech. Get some perspective.
Sex seems to take a bad rap, but if it wasn't for sex, I wouldn't be here today.
I worked with a girl who was from Iran. She told me that culturally regular sex before marriage was wrong but anal was allowed. She would not confirm or deny her experience.
Who cares...what a bunch of morons for one to post an article about this and what a bunch of morons to debate it. CNN I'd think you were better than this but then again you are the biggest liberal supporter on the internet.
Now this sounds like a real tragedy....
Just give all teen girls a piece of wedding cake. That will stop all the oral sex.
Uh-oh...looks like I will definitely be getting head and neck cancer...
Dude in the pic is about to score!
The survey doesn't seem to address if teens are overall having less sex, or simply less oral sex (and more of other types of sex).
Back when I was a teen, oral was the sex of choice since the girl remained physically a virgin.
They're showing their cards; they're going all in!
",,, But from that very first look in your eyes
I knew you and I had but one heart
Only our bodies were apart
That was so easy, so easy
I had a taste of the real world
When I went down on you, girl. ..." Lyrics from Miracles, Jefferson Starship 1975.
This story makes mom's rejoice and teen boys cry.
now i miss my buddy even more.
I don't always give girls orgasms......but when I do.........she spits it back out!
Now that´s funny!
Decline in oral sex? We are going to have an exponential increase in shootings. When sexually frustrated you tend to not think clearly.
Makes me laugh that ppl get disgusted when a chef doesnt wash his hands after peeing, but are not grossed out by this stuff... its just cutting out the middle man, ie. the cooks hands. Pointed that out to my ex once and it completely changed his behavior. LOL
So, I guess it would be okay for the chef to spit in the food, since kissing isn't gross?
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What an awful time to be a teenager! Maybe ther's more anal now?
Yes. That's why Sandusky was so successful.
Better headline would have been, "Teen oral sex going down!"
We have less cunning lingquists coming of age. Sad.
When asked as to why this decrease was prevelant, researchers found a positive correlation to the confusion created when men wear skinny jeans and look feminine, and the women around them have more male features, confounding teens as to which person they should be having oral sex with. They also found a gigantic decrease in oral sex with people that wear their pants below their waistline, citing that most teens figured "Those types of people must have stinky crotches they have to air out"
This means that there was more oral sex under Bush.