Article Title

‘Trends in Sexual Behaviors Similar for Teens Who Take Few Health Risk and Those Who Take Many’

Website

Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. (2019). Trends In Sexual Behaviors Similar For Teens Who Take Few Health Risk And Those Who Take Many. Retrieved from https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081219172135.htm

Findings: Statistics and Data

The article by the public health faculty of Columbia University reported that despite the strong associations between risky sexual behaviors and those are not sexually related; there remains a fair chance that the latter might not be the sole driving force influencing adolescents into engaging in sexual activities.

The authors of the article, led by Dr. Santelli examined a survey with data dating from 1999 to 2008, which focused on the youth and risky behavior. The analysis found out that those individuals who engaged in risky conduct not related to sex were three times more likely to report over four intercourse partners throughout their lives as compared to students at the lower level of the risk spectrum.

The article also informed that 13% of students indulging in non-risk behaviors admitted to having sex at least once in their lifetime while a staggering 87% of those high school students who participated in risky behaviors, reported to having sex on more than one occasion. The authors went further to conclude that teenagers, regardless of their position at the scale of risk, had the conducts mostly influenced by social forces. It was, however, fortunate that over the last two decades these factors bolstered the success of interventions, which significantly reduced sexual experiences and the spread of diseases. Also, according to the article, the use of condoms delayed sex, and a considerably reduced number of sex partners boosted the fight against HIV and AIDS.