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Newsflash: Teenagers like drugs and fucking! Sun hot, water wet, Jolie attractive, Hawking smart. And so on.
But seriously folks, this year's Youth Risk Behavior Study says that 56.9 percent of Chicago teenagers have had sex, 4 in 10 are currently sexually active*, and 44 percent have tried smoking pot.
Other stats:
- 18.7 percent of boys report having intercourse for the first time before age 13; 5.8 percent of girls say they have
- 17.8 percent have carried a weapon
- 12.8 percent didn't go to school at least once in the last month because they felt unsafe. The national average is 5.5 percent.
- 10.1 percent attempted suicide; national average is 6.9 percent
- 18.1 percent have had sex with more than four partners
- 61.9 percent of boys and 42.3 percent of girls played on at least one sports team in the last year
- 11.3 percent of boys and girls say they've been physically forced to have sex when they didn't want to
- 20 percent have had five or more drinks in a row within the last month
- 25 percent drank alcohol before they were 13
- 67.8 percent used a condom the last time they had sex
- 45.4 percent were trying to lose weight
The CDC conducts the YRBS every two years, and it relies on self-reporting on a pencil-and-paper questionnaire. [Trib]
*I know people think this is lame, but it cracks me up. When my doctor asks me if I'm sexually active, I say "no, I just lay there." Yes, I really say this. Yes, the doctor laughs. It rules.
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I dig the American Apparel ads next to the teens and sex article. Fitting, in a twisted way.
Most studies of teens (I do this kind of work) suggest that teen boys tend to exaggerate their sexual experience on surveys. I know this might come as a surprise to some of you. But there it is. Shocking, but true. No studies I'm aware of to date have attempted to validate their responses.
The sports team statistic seems oddly out of place with the rest of the stats.
@sparky: It's a "health" survey, I thought I'd throw it in.
@Margaret: I know that..I just thought it was funny.
Can I pilfer your next time I see the doctor, or would that be considered plagarism?
Hehehee, totally use it, Sparky. I got it from a TV show years ago, but I can't remember which one.
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Teens have sex, do drugs
but rarely do they ruin
a state like Blago!
I can't stop!
actually what teens really do is..... "spread knowledge through ya projects, smoke blunts, throw weight, bust shots, attend wakes, baby make, pay rent, stay bent,drink Red Label, duck from jakes, they flagrant, keep the gear pressed flip thoughts to your whips on the good ship Jesus before Kimet was called Egypt," son!
Oppps that's actually what the Wu Tang Clan does, especially the RZA!
"18.7 percent of boys report having intercourse for the first time before age 13; 5.8 percent of girls say they have"
Those 3.4 girls sure do get around... don't they?
No kidding ? Huh............who knew?