More and more teenagers are having unprotected anal sex, according to an ABC article that refers to drunken, teenage anal sex as "love making" and informs us that Jezebel's Tracie Egan didn't even know how to clean herself after her first time.
Egan said that when she had anal sex with a boyfriend for the first time at 26, she was drunk, used no condom -- they were monogamous -- and didn't even know how to clean herself. "Lack of sex education in school is really bothersome to me," she said. "Even I don't know about a lot of the biological issues."
Unfortunately, as the article points out, due to abstienence only educatio, most teenagers don't know the first thing about anal sex. Plus, if you don't know what you're doing, it can be dangerous.
Like a proctologist once told us after we asked about anal sex it, er, opens your anal tissue up to tearing, which can lead to direct blood exposure to infected fluid. And as Jezebel's Megan Carpentier pointed out, "How many times do teens go to a pediatrician, not a gynecologist?" she said. "And when I was 18, my mother was still in the room."
A sampling of quotes from teenagers interviewed for the article shows just how uninformed teenagers still are about anal sex:
"I know some teens who did it just to try, and some who didn't have a condom available," said one 18-year-old Californian who did not want her name used.
"I think that it's less taboo simply because people are more open to trying new things," said her 23-year-old sister. "The younger crowd might be scared by the idea of getting pregnant, so they assume it's safer."
One recent graduate of a New England college said one of her classmates was a "hard-core" Catholic who was rumored to have engaged in risky behavior.
"She only had anal sex with her boyfriend until they were married because that technically kept her a virgin," said the 25-year-old who wanted to remain anonymous.
Things obviously haven't changed that much from when we were teenagers—not that it was that long ago—when our friends had anal sex to please their boyfriends while preserving their technical virginity.
ABC we commend you for writing about this topic, though we must laugh and point at your use of the term "love making."
[ABC: Study Reports Anal Sex on Rise Among Teens]
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