Teens
 

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Sticky Situations To Avoid When Sexual Activity Isn’t Desired

1.    Avoid being alone with a member of the opposite sex.

a.    Parking

b.    Being in an empty house, apartment, hotel. Etc.

2.    Avoid being in dark rooms.

a.    Closet

b.    Bathroom

c.     Don’t turn out all the lights while watching TV, leave one on

3.    Avoid drinking or using drugs.

4.    Avoid wearing sexy, tight, or revealing clothing.

a.    Mini skirts

b.    Not wearing a bra or blouses that are see-through

c.     Really tight pants that cling to your body

5.    Avoid watching X-rated movies

6.    Avoid dancing close and letting yourself be touched all over.

7.    Avoid staying out too late.

8.    Avoid going into a room with a bed.

9.    Avoid saying things that may turn someone on.

10.  Avoid following the crowd or doing what everyone else is doing.

11.   Avoid sneaking out of the house to meet people.

12.  Avoid accepting rides with people you hardly know or don’t know

      at all.

How To Get Out Of Sticky Situations

1.   “It’s time for me to go.”

2.   “I’ve got to use the bathroom.”

3.   “I’m on my cycle.”

4.   “I’m not ready.”

5.   “I don’t know who you have been with and it’s not worth my life.”

6.   “I’m saving myself for marriage.”

7.   “I feel sick.” (and/or) “My stomach hurts.”

8.   “I think I just heard something.”

9.   “My cell phone (or pager) just went off.”

10.  “Have a plan, discuss it ahead of time when possible."

11.   Say NO! Make sure to say it like you mean it- giggling and/or

       saying it softly doesn’t work.

12.    Suggest something else to do. You’re hungry, “let’s eat!”   

13.   "Survivor is on and I can’t miss it!”

14.   Change the setting: turn off the music, turn on the lights, stop

        watching a movie.

15.   Girls can say: “By the way, I don’t go all the way.”

16.   Guys can say: “By the way, I respect you, and I don’t expect you

       to go all the way.”

Statistics:

In a recent poll, 63% of teens who have had sexual intercourse said they wish they had waited. More than half of teen boys (55%) and 3 out of 4 girls (72%) surveyed said they wished they had waited. 

Pregnancy:

·        In 2000 there were an estimated 27 births to teenagers each day in the state of Alabama.

·       Nearly 1 million teen girls get pregnant each year. Nearly 4 out of 10 young women get pregnant at least once before they turn 20.

·       The United States has one of the highest rates of teen pregnancy in the western industrialized world- twice as high as England and Canada and nine times higher than Japan.

·        Every year in the U.S. approximately one million teenage women become pregnant- that’s 10% of all women aged 15-19 and 10 percent of those who have had sexual intercourse.

·        If this trend continues, 10 to 30 percent of girls graduating from high school each year will have been pregnant.

·        Only one-third of teen mothers graduate from high school.

·        80% of unmarried teen mothers end up on welfare.

·        Children of teenage mothers have lower birth rates, are more likely to perform poorly in school, and are at a    

       greater risk of abuse and neglect.

·        The sons of teenage mothers are 13% more likely to end up in prison, while the daughters of teen mothers are 22% 
 more likely to become teen mothers themselves.

STDS:

• Every year 3 million teens acquire a STD:

o       8,219 every day

o       342 every hour

o       1 every 10 seconds

• At least 1 in 4 people will contract an STD in their lifetime.

• About 1 in 5 people in the U.S. over the age of 12- approximately 45 million individuals- are infected with HSV-2, the virus that causes genital herpes.
• There are more that 25 significant sexually transmitted diseases.
• Every year more that 15 million Americans get a new STD infection.

User failure rate for different types of contraception:

• Using a male condom = 14%-16% failure rate and limited HIV/STD protection.
• Using oral contraceptives = 5% failure rate and no HIV/STD protection.
• Abstinence = 0% failure rate and 100% HIV/STD protection.

Abstinence:

• Fewer than half of high school students have had sex.
• Teens are showing signs of being more conservative sexually. Close to 6 in 10 teens (58%) surveyed recently said sexual activity for high school age teens in not acceptable, even if precautions are taken against pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases. In fact, the vast majority of teens surveyed (87%) said they do not think its embarrassing for teens to admit they are virgins.