Male teens adopting safe sex
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Male teens adopting safe sex
CHICAGO, April 3 (UPI) - American teenage men have adopted safer
behaviors and attitudes about sex because of concerns about AIDS and a
less permissive view of premarital sex.
A new study finds the percentage of males 17 to 19 having sex with a
female fell from 75 percent in 1988 to 68 percent in 1995. In 1979, 66
percent of male teens reported they had sex.
Sexual activity of black teen males 17 to 19 rose between 1979 and
1988 but unlike the results for white teens, did not decline in 1995.
The study found while more teen men were likely to be virgins in 1995
than in 1988, sexually active males were having more sex, a possible
indication of steadier or longer lasting relationships with girlfriends.
Other factors in the swing away from permissiveness include increased
AIDS education and fear of AIDS, the study said. The proportion of men
who approved of premarital sex, without plans to marry, was 55 percent
in 1979, rose to 80 percent in 1988 and fell to 71 percent in 1995.
Attitudes were similiar for both young black and white men.
Reseachers Leighton Ku and Freya Sonenstein of the Urban Institute,
Scott Boggess of Georgetown University in Washington and Joseph H. Pleck
of the University of Illinois at Urbana attributed the decline in teen
male sexual activity in the 1990s to increasingly conservative
adolescent attitudes toward premarital sex.
Their paper, Understanding Changes in Teenaged Men's Sexual Activity:
1979 to 1995,`` is scheduled to be presented Saturday the annual meeting
of the Population Association of America in Chicago.
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Male teens adopting safe sex
CHICAGO, April 3 (UPI) - American teenage men have adopted safer
behaviors and attitudes about sex because of concerns about AIDS and a
less permissive view of premarital sex.
A new study finds the percentage of males 17 to 19 having sex with a
female fell from 75 percent in 1988 to 68 percent in 1995. In 1979, 66
percent of male teens reported they had sex.
Sexual activity of black teen males 17 to 19 rose between 1979 and
1988 but unlike the results for white teens, did not decline in 1995.
The study found while more teen men were likely to be virgins in 1995
than in 1988, sexually active males were having more sex, a possible
indication of steadier or longer lasting relationships with girlfriends.
Other factors in the swing away from permissiveness include increased
AIDS education and fear of AIDS, the study said. The proportion of men
who approved of premarital sex, without plans to marry, was 55 percent
in 1979, rose to 80 percent in 1988 and fell to 71 percent in 1995.
Attitudes were similiar for both young black and white men.
Researchers Leighton Ku and Freya Sonenstein of the Urban Institute,
UPI
Male teens adopting safe sex
CHICAGO, April 3 (UPI) - American teenage men are adopting safer
behaviors and attitudes about sex because of concerns about AIDS and
more conservative views on premarital sex. A new study finds the
percentage of males 17 to 19 having sex with a female fell from 75
percent in 1988 to 68 percent in 1995.
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