Sexual behavior statistics

The share of high school students who are sexually active has fluctuated since , ranging from 30 to 38 percent. In , Appendix 1 Among black students, however, the proportion who reported they were sexually active decreased from 59 percent in to 33 percent in The proportion of high school students who reported they had ever had vaginal sexual intercourse declined between and , from 54 to 46 percent. Between and this figure fluctuated only slightly, and then further declined to 41 percent in Roughly a third of both male and female high school students reported being sexually active in 30 percent for both males and females.

In which, he draws on data from The National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles the widest survey of sexual behaviour since the Kinsey Report to answers crucial questions like what are we all doing? How often? And how has it changed? In recognition of this essential tome, GQ asks Spiegelhalter to expand on some of the more illuminating findings and graphics from the book. The spikes on nice round numbers suggest that rough guesses were being made rather than individual people remembered, and the right tail of the distribution has been cut off at fifty: the two men and one woman who said '' were presumably making a very rough guess indeed. How can this happen?

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Author information: 1 Hospital Moinhos de Vento. The sexual behaviors of to year-olds increase the risk of this population to acquire sexually transmitted infections STIs. The present study aimed to describe the sexual behavior in the transition to adulthood Brazilian population and its association with STI history. We analyzed cross-sectional data collected from sexually active women and men who participated in the National Survey of Human Papillomavirus Prevalence POP-Brazil.