CDC Sex Survey: 40 Percent Of Teens Report Being Intimate

ATLANTA, GA -- Teenagers are still doing it, a new survey from the Atlanta-based Centers For Disease Control and Prevention says. Released Thursday, the survey into teen sex habits and their use of contraception shows that not much has changed since the early 2000s, when about 40 percent of teens reported having sex.

In the new numbers, 42 percent of girls and 44 percent of boys reported having at least one sexual encounter, the survey, which covers a period of 2011 to 2015, says. (To get notified of more local news like this, click here to sign up for the Atlanta Patch. Or find your Atlanta-area town here. Or, if you have an iPhone, download the free Patch app.)

"In 2011–2015, 42.4% of never-married female teenagers (4.0 million) and 44.2% of never-married male teenagers (4.4 million) had had sexual intercourse at least once by the time of the interview (were sexually experienced)," the survey said. "These levels of sexual experience among teenagers are similar to those seen in 2002 and 2006 2010 data."
As for contraception, about 75 percent of teen boys reported using a condom during their first sexual experience, a slight bump over the early 200os. For female teens, use of protection rose more steeply, from 74 percent in the early 2000s to 81 percent in recent years.
Image via Pixabay