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Originally Posted by ForBell
"Looks like sexual activity is flat. This is Canada, but should be similar:"
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You just might want to look at the facts for the USA.
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CDC - Sexual Behaviors - Adolescent and School Health
Many young people engage in sexual risk behaviors that can result in unintended health outcomes. For example, among U.S. high school students surveyed in 2013:
- 47% had had sexual intercourse.
- 34% had had sexual intercourse during the previous 3 months, and, of these 41% did not use a condom the last time they had sex.
- 15% had had sex with four or more people during their life.
- Only 22% of sexually experienced students have ever been tested for HIV.
Sexual risk behaviors place adolescents at risk for HIV infection, other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), and unintended pregnancy:
- Nearly 10,000 young people (aged 13-24) were diagnosed with HIV infection in the United States in 2013.
- Young gay and bisexual men (aged 13-24) accounted for an estimated 19% (8,800) of all new HIV infections in the United States, and 72% of new HIV infections among youth in 2010.
- Nearly half of the 20 million new STDs each year were among young people, between the ages of 15 to 24.
- Approximately 273,000 babies were born to teen girls aged 15–19 years in 2013. |
This is only one piece of the story. Here is the another piece:
"Since 1991, there have been declines among high schoolers in the percentages of students who ever had sexual intercourse, who had sexual intercourse for the first time before age 13, who have had sexual intercourse with four or more persons in their lifetime, and who report being currently sexually active.15
In 2008 (the most recent year for which national data are available), the pregnancy rate for U.S. teens aged 15-19 reached 67.8 pregnancies per 1000 young women: its lowest point in more than 30 years, down 42 percent from its 1990 peak of 116.9 per thousand.16
The birth rate for U.S. teens aged 15-19 reached its lowest point in 2009 (39.1 births per thousand young women) in nearly seven decades; the 2009 rate was 37 percent below its most recent peak in 1991 (61.8 per 1000).1"
http://advocatesforyouth.org/storage/advfy/documents/adolescent-sexual-behavior-demographics.pdf
As for Bruce Jenner, I can offer compassion but not understanding. This is so foreign to me, how could I really understand his situation. I don't. There is plenty I don't understand about the whole gender and sexuality spectrum so I just believe in live and let live.
I followed one of the first public transgender/gender reassignment persons back in the 70s. Walter/Wendy Carlos. She was a celebrated classical musician who first applied the Moog synthesizer to Bach, Brahms, and Mozart and her music was used in several film soundtracks at the time. She is still active in music and an avid solar eclipse chaser. That was 40 years ago and my understanding is no better now than it was then. I wonder what she would say to Jenner now after living as a woman since the 70s.