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October 4, 2010
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/04/health/04sex.html?_r=1&ref=science
Condom Use Is Highest for Young, Study Finds
By RONI CARYN RABIN
A wide-ranging study of Americans' sexual behavior, based on the
largest nationally representative survey since 1992, finds that condom
use is becoming the norm for sexually active teenagers.
Indeed, they are more responsible than adults about using condoms, the
researchers report in a study coming out on Monday. A vast majority of
sexually active 14- to 17-year-olds - 80 percent of boys and 69
percent of girls - said they had used a condom the last time they had
intercourse, compared with well under half of adults involved in
casual liaisons.
"I think that just as teenagers quickly develop an expectation that
they're going to learn to drive no matter where they live," said a
co-author of the survey, Dr. J. Dennis Fortenberry, a professor of
pediatrics at the Indiana University School of Medicine, "there's the
same general widespread sense among contemporary teenagers that as you
get to the point where you start thinking about having sex, condoms
are going to be part of that decision."
The new study, the first to include participants as young as 14 and as
old as 94, finds that decades after the sexual revolution, the gap
between men's and women's sexual satisfaction persists.
While most men said they had experienced orgasm the last time they had
sex, and 85 percent believed their partner had also, only two-thirds
of the women surveyed said they had achieved orgasm the last time they
had sex. And a startling number of women - almost one-third - said
they had experienced pain the last time they had sex (only 5 percent
of men did).
The report is drawn from the National Survey of Sexual Health and
Behavior, carried out by researchers at the Center for Sexual Health
Promotion at Indiana University. It was based on responses from 5,865
individuals, including about 800 under 18.
The report was welcomed by health providers and sex educators, who say
the field has had little data to go on, even as monumental social
changes - the gay rights movement, increases in cohabitation, later
marriage and childbearing, the AIDS epidemic and the widespread use of
drugs for erectile dysfunction, among others - have transformed sexual
attitudes.
Government agencies and private foundations are reluctant to pay for
studies of sexual behavior that do not focus on reproduction, experts
say; the last broad sex survey, the 1992 National Health and Social
Life Survey, was started under a governmental contract, but Congress
cut off financing and it was completed with support from private
sources.
"There's been an enormous explosion of research in virtually all areas
of medicine except the entity called sexual medicine," said Dr. Irwin
Goldstein, editor in chief of The Journal of Sexual Medicine, which is
devoting its entire issue to papers from the study and commentaries by
experts. "We can't get the funding."
Even though Americans are bombarded with sexual imagery, they have
little access to reliable information about sexual behavior, said
Monica Rodriguez, president of Siecus, the Sexuality Information and
Education Council of the United States, a nonprofit group based in New
York. "That's why this is so important - it gives us a sense of what's
really happening, instead of all this, 'Well, my sex life must not be
normal, because I don't do this or only do this.' "
The new study was financed by Church & Dwight, the maker of Trojan
condoms. Researchers said that while they had shared information with
the sponsor during the course of the study, the company had not
exerted influence over the way it was conducted, except to offer
advice on how to phrase questions to accurately gauge condom use.
The study also found that while only about 7 percent of men and of
women identified themselves as 'other than heterosexual,' a much
higher percentage reported having had sex with a member of the same
sex. Among women in their 30s, for example, 14 percent said they had
performed oral sex on another woman at some point in their lives; 13
percent of men over 40 said they had performed oral sex on another
man.
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"Ethics" is simply a last-gasp attempt by deist conservatives and
orthodox dogmatics to keep humanity in ignorance and obscurantism,
through the well tried fermentation of fear, the fear of science and
new technologies.
There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history,
it is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations.
On the contrary, let us embrace Science and the new technologies
unfettered, for it is these which will liberate mankind from the
myth of god, and free us from our age old fears, from disease,
death and the sweat of labour.
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