The language of young love and lust, and the actions behind it, are evolving.
Packs of various condoms stand on a shelf of a CVS store in Washington, DC, on February 23, 2022.
She thought about it for 20 seconds, then listed a range of possibilities for heterosexual sex, oral sex and relations between same-sex or LGBTQ partners. On her campus, short-term hookups — known as "situationships" — are typically low commitment and high risk from both health and emotional perspectives.There are also "sneaky links" — when you hook up in secret and don’t tell your friends.
They point to another finding in this year’s study that found the proportion of high school kids who identify as heterosexual dropped to about 75%, down from about 89% in 2015, when the CDC began asking about sexual orientation. Meanwhile, the share who identified as lesbian, gay or bisexual rose to 15%, up from 8% in 2015.
"It’s a fine line we have to try to walk," says Kathleen Ethier, director of the CDC’s Division of Adolescent and School Health, which leads the study. The survey was conducted in the fall of 2021, just as many K-12 students returned to in-person classrooms after a year of online school.Several teens interviewed said that when schools reopened, they returned with intense social anxiety compounded by fears of catching COVID. That added a new layer to pre-pandemic concerns about sexual relations like getting pregnant or catching STIs.
Tow also notices a "general sense of disillusionment" in her generation. She cites statistics that fewer teenagers today are getting driver’s licenses. "I think," she says, "there is a correlation between students being able to drive and students having sex." Unlike abstinence-only programs, the lessons include discussion on understanding healthy relationships, gender identity, sexual orientation and preventing unplanned pregnancies and sexually transmitted infections. Contrary to what critics think, she said, young people are more likely to delay the onset of sexual activity if they have access to sex education.
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