Speak Plainly when Discussing Sex!

Well doh! However..... This new study identifies WHY it is sooo important to be clear about the things we talk about. Dont expect that when a young person tells you that they 'had sex' it will have the same meaning that YOU apply to 'have sex'. Here is some information from the study. To follow up go here


Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction and the Rural Center for AIDS/STD Prevention. The study, published in the journal Sexual Health, examined how men and women in various age groups classify whether various physical acts constitute "having sex." Bancroft writes that the researchers asked respondents, whose ages ranged from 18 to 96, "Would you say you 'had sex' with someone if the most intimate behavior you engaged in was..." The question ended with one of 14 possible scenarios, such as manual-genital contact, oral-genital contact, penile-vaginal intercourse and penile-anal intercourse, with variations related to whether an act was performed or received, performed with a condom or performed for a brief period of time, according to Bancroft. Participants' responses varied by age and sex. For example, only 9.7% of men ages 18 to 29 thought that receiving manual-genital stimulation was "having sex," and only 40% thought that receiving oral-genital contact was sex,