NO SEX , WE'RE AMERICAN: 25% US YOUNGESTERS ARE VIRGINS

[Daanyeer]

No sex please, we're American: More than a quarter of young men and women in the U.S. say they're still virgins
By Daniel Bates
5th March 2011

Rising numbers of young Americans are abstaining from sex, an official study has found.
Some 29 per cent of females and 27 per cent of males aged 15 to 24 said they had not had any sexual contact.
The figures have increased from 22 per cent for both sexes in 2002, when the large-scale research was previously carried out.

The figures also show that teenage pregnancy has declined by 40 per cent over the past two decades as young people wait for the right person before starting a family.
Experts said the National Survey of Family Growth findings showed a ‘backlash’ against the ladette culture of the 1990s in which women thought they could have casual sex like men.


But they also indicate a resurgence of conservative values, as shown by the success of the Tea Party in last year’s mid-term elections.
Church campaigns have sought to promote abstinence among young people over the past decade, while several states have changed the tone of sex education in schools.
Unlike in Britain, where sex education tends to focus on contraception, American lessons try to discourage youngsters from having sex in the first place.
Bill Albert, of the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy, said the findings showed ‘extraordinary progress on a social issue that many once considered intractable’.
‘Many, many young people have been very receptive to the message of delaying sexual activity,’ he said.

In recent years several Christian movements have sprung up in America, encouraging young people to wait until they are married before having sex.
The most prominent is True Love Waits, in which followers wear an ‘abstinence ring’ to show their commitment to remaining a virgin. The Silver Ring Thing is a similar church-based programme.
This week a basketball player at a Mormon college was kicked off the team after it emerged he had had sex with his girlfriend. Brandon Davies breached the vow of chastity he had taken when he enrolled at Utah’s Brigham Young University.
Dr Laura Berman, a leading expert on sexual health, said the survey showed that when it came to teenagers and sex, the U.S. was ‘starting to see the pendulum back in a different direction’.
She added: ‘What I’ve heard for many years is that women are saying I want to be just like the guys and have casual sex.
‘Due to chemical things going on in our bodies we can’t do that in the same way that boys might so we’re starting to see a backlash.
‘A lot of these women have been hurt and they are realising that women and men should slow down.’
The study covered the years 2006 to 2008 and was based on interviews with 13,500 men and women aged between 15 and 44.


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[haxxor]

No sex please, we're American: More than a quarter of young men and women in the U.S. say they're still virgins
By Daniel Bates
5th March 2011

Rising numbers of young Americans are abstaining from sex, an official study has found.
Some 29 per cent of females and 27 per cent of males aged 15 to 24 said they had not had any sexual contact.
The figures have increased from 22 per cent for both sexes in 2002, when the large-scale research was previously carried out.

The figures also show that teenage pregnancy has declined by 40 per cent over the past two decades as young people wait for the right person before starting a family.
Experts said the National Survey of Family Growth findings showed a ‘backlash’ against the ladette culture of the 1990s in which women thought they could have casual sex like men.


But they also indicate a resurgence of conservative values, as shown by the success of the Tea Party in last year’s mid-term elections.
Church campaigns have sought to promote abstinence among young people over the past decade, while several states have changed the tone of sex education in schools.
Unlike in Britain, where sex education tends to focus on contraception, American lessons try to discourage youngsters from having sex in the first place.
Bill Albert, of the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy, said the findings showed ‘extraordinary progress on a social issue that many once considered intractable’.
‘Many, many young people have been very receptive to the message of delaying sexual activity,’ he said.

In recent years several Christian movements have sprung up in America, encouraging young people to wait until they are married before having sex.
The most prominent is True Love Waits, in which followers wear an ‘abstinence ring’ to show their commitment to remaining a virgin. The Silver Ring Thing is a similar church-based programme.
This week a basketball player at a Mormon college was kicked off the team after it emerged he had had sex with his girlfriend. Brandon Davies breached the vow of chastity he had taken when he enrolled at Utah’s Brigham Young University.
Dr Laura Berman, a leading expert on sexual health, said the survey showed that when it came to teenagers and sex, the U.S. was ‘starting to see the pendulum back in a different direction’.
She added: ‘What I’ve heard for many years is that women are saying I want to be just like the guys and have casual sex.
‘Due to chemical things going on in our bodies we can’t do that in the same way that boys might so we’re starting to see a backlash.
‘A lot of these women have been hurt and they are realising that women and men should slow down.’
The study covered the years 2006 to 2008 and was based on interviews with 13,500 men and women aged between 15 and 44.


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TRUE. In some causes, they actually do, encourage you to have a sex with conceptions.

[Archerr]

Less sex and less cases for STDs.