Study Rejects The Notion That US Teens Engage In Oral Sex Rather Than Intercourse To Maintain "Technical Virginity"
A recent study focusing on sexual practices of U.S. teens has rejected the notion that teens in United States engage in oral sex rather than intercourse to maintain "technical virginity”. Previous studies in 2002 - 2005 had articulated that teens engage in oral sex in order to preserve their "technical virginity," but, the new study that falsified the previous studies was published in the Journal of Adolescent Health; the study was based on a survey conducted on 2,271 females and males age 15 to 19.
According to the study, 55 percent of the teens said they had engaged in oral sex but that this practice was far more common among those who also had engaged in vaginal sex. Teens admitted that they began vaginal and oral sex at roughly the same time - by six months after first vaginal intercourse, 82 percent had also engaged in oral sex.
In a statement, Laura Lindberg of the Guttmacher Institute in New York, who led the study, said, “There is a widespread belief that teens engage in nonvaginal forms of sex, especially oral sex, as a way to be sexually active while still claiming that, technically, they are virgins.”
"However, our research shows that this supposed substitution of oral sex for vaginal sex is largely a myth. There is no good evidence that teens who have not had intercourse engage in oral sex with a series of partners," Lindberg said.
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