They're having more sex and using fewer condoms.
Is there any generation you haven't screwed in your eight long years as president?
Teenagers are having more sex than they were in 2001 and condom use declined after the U.S. government increased spending to promote sexual abstinence.
The percentage of teens who said they had sex rose to 47.8 percent last year from 45.6 percent in 2001, according to data released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. Condom use fell from 63 percent in 2003 to 61.5 percent in 2007, the survey of high school students found.
The Bush administration has more than doubled grants for abstinence programs since 1999 to a proposed $191 million in next year's budget. The programs limit discussions of contraceptives and advocate that teens avoid sex. The CDC study didn't attempt to explain why teen sex isn't declining and condom use isn't rising, as they were during the 1990s.
``We are concerned about what appears to be a flatting-out of sexual risk behaviors,'' said Howell Wechsler, director of CDC's division of adolescent and school health, in a conference call with reporters today.
That's it. We're handing out condoms with little how-to's this Halloween. In fact, we're going to start a campaign to hand out condoms to trick-or-treaters. Tricks and treats.
[Bloomberg: Teens Having More Sex and Using Fewer Condoms, U.S. Study Says]
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