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Author: Admin | 2025-04-28
Percent of females ages 20 to 24 said they had vaginal intercourse, while 85 percent said they had oral sex. By age 20-24 years, 85 percent of males had vaginal intercourse and 82 percent had any oral sex. Overall, the results showed that two-thirds of males and females between the ages of 15 and 24 had ever had oral sex. Among young females surveyed, 26 percent had oral sex prior to vaginal intercourse, 27 percent had oral sex after their first time having vaginal sex, 7.4 percent had oral sex on the same occasion as their first time having intercourse, and 5.1 percent had oral sex but no intercourse during the survey period.For males ages 15 to 24, 24 percent had first oral sex before having intercourse, 24 had oral sex after first intercourse, 12 percent had oral sex on same occasion as first intercourse, and 6.5 percent had oral sex but no vaginal intercourse at the time they were surveyed."There's been a perception for many years that there's some kind of epidemic of oral sex among teens," Leslie Kantor, vice president for education of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, who was not involved in the research, told The New York Times. "If nothing else, this data provides a realistic sense of the numbers."There were also some differences seen among different ethnic groups. Non-Hispanic black females ages 15 to 24 had the highest percentage who ever had had vaginal intercourse at 74 percent, followed by 68 percent of Hispanic females 66 percent of non-Hispanic white females. Non-Hispanic white females were most likely to report oral sex (69 percent) than non-Hispanic black females (63 percent) and Hispanic females (59 percent).For males, 71 percent of non-Hispanic black men and 69 percent of Hispanic men surveyed said they had vaginal intercourse, while 63 percent of non-Hispanic white males said they had. Non-Hispanic black males (44 percent) had a lower percentage (44 percent) of responders who reported giving oral sex to a female compared with Hispanic males (51 percent) and non-Hispanic white males between 15 and 24 (60 percent).The findings may help the CDC design better education programs for teens and young adults, specifically when it comes to oral sex. While risk for transmitting HIV through oral sex is low, the CDC said several studies have found that oral sex can lead to sexually transmitted diseases including Chlamydia, genital herpes, gonorrhea and syphilis.
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