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Teenage Americans

Adolescent sexual behaviour
  • Nearly 70% of all unmarried females are nonvirgins by age 19 (80% of males).
    • 25% of females have had sex by age 15; almost all these encounters were forced or coerced.
    • Average age of first sexual experience is 16 years.


  • Adolescents in the aggregate still drift into sexual activity rather than decide to have sex.
    • Most adolescent sexual activity will take place in the context of one primary relationship.

    • Most adolescents are not promiscuous, but "serially monogamous."

    Recent survey tells us that 57% of adolescents claim to have used a male barrier method during their last act.
    • Research suggests that this might be an over statement. Most do not do what they say.

    • More than 50% of sexually active adolescents do not use birth control regularly.

This is what KAPLAN tells me! The point is that we should not let these problems creep into our society. We happen to be following every vice of the western world without hesitation thinking, or pretending to think, that they are a usual part of the package of success. Dictator's newly preached enlightened moderation may be a good point but for most of the population it is just another excuse to blatantly follow what every American or British night club has to offer.
   Our metropolitan cities have changed for the worst in the past 6 years or so. All of a sudden there is a change which involves degradation of moral values and shunning of good aptitudes. All night raves are as commonplace as ice cream hawkers in the summer time. Drugs have creeped in like a menace. Bars are common knowledge and still lot is on its way. This change where it is bad in its own place serves to widen the rift between the priviliged and the under priviliged. Smaller cities have plunged into the other side of extremism. People from these parts feel left out and are getting angrier by the day. Worthlessness is creeping in for those who can not afford to run alongside the others. I see disturbance very similar to French riots in not so distant future if such trends exist for a longer time.

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