gam@proper.UUCP (Gordon Moffett) (04/08/84)
# > [From: Rick Paul (ihnp4!hogpc!rwp):] > ... this [contraceptive] would be given to all > high schoolers ... regardless of whether or not they would be > having sex before their eighteenth birthday. Does anyone out > there have figures to indicate the percentages > involved here? As they say, "You Asked for It!" ... The following from "Sex: A User's Manual" (Diagram Group/Berkeley Books), pg 212: "A survey of teenagers published in 1973 (Robert C. Sorenson, `Adolescent Sexuality in Contemporary America') asked if they had ever had intercourse. [Here are the] percentages who claimed they had: Boys aged 13-15 years: 44% Girls aged 13-15 years: 30% Boys aged 16-19 years: 72% Girls aged 16-19 years: 57% "Planned Parenthood studies, made in 1971 and 1976, compared for those years the numbers of unmarried girls aged 15 to 19 who had had intercourse. The result reveals an increase of 29% for the group as a whole. The sharpest rise was in those aged 17. In 1976 that age group showed a 54% increase in coitus over the group aged 17 in 1971."