Increasing number of teens engaged in same sex activities

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is this Sunday. It might be a good time to have a talk with your kids about gay sex.

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We all know we need to talk to our kids about sex, pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases. We’ve seen that public service announcement. But kids seem to still be a little bit confused about what gay sex is and what they need to know to stay safe if they choose to practice it.

Peggy B Smith, a professor at Baylor College of Medicine and the director of the school’s teen health clinics, said BCM’s clinics are seeing a huge increase in the number of teenagers who have sex with members of the same sex, but don’t self-identify as gay. They’re young, they’re sexually active and they’re on the down low. The result is unsafe sex practices, which are leading to an increase in sexually transmitted diseases.
This past year, the clinics, which serve youth aged 13 to 25, have seen a 100 percent increase in the number of male teenagers with STDs who say they have sex with other men but are not gay, she said. (To be fair, that’s only 12 kids compared to the six men they treated the year before, but still, what if it was your kid?)

“Knowledge is power,” Smith said. “Parents have a moral obligation and parental obligation to talk to their kids within the framework of their religious convictions. If (parents) think these (behaviors) are problematic then they need to talk to their kids about these things. Don’t leave it to chance.”
Many parents focus on pregnancy prevention when talking with their kids about sex. That’s a dangerous place to stop, Smith said. STDs, in addition to being easily transmitted through unprotected heterosexual intercourse, also can be contracted through more non-traditional sex acts.

While statistics on how many kids are having anal or oral sex are hard to pin down, the latest, most reliable study from the Centers for Disease Control says nearly half of all high school students have had sex and about 11 percent of them have had anal sex. Three percent of males at this age have had anal sex with other males. Baylor’s Smith believes the figures to be even higher.
How early you might need to have these non-traditional sex talks with your kids may surprise you. A recent New York Times article profiled kids as young as 12 years old who already self-identify as being attracted to members of the same sex. It’s not easy thinking of our pre-teens as being sexual beings already, but they are.

Whether you approve or not, kids are hearing about these kinds of sex acts. What they may not understand is that an unplanned pregnancy is the least of their worries. A lifetime of struggle with an STD is.

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Kids become sexually aware and active way before the traditional ages of consent (16/18), a lot start experimenting as soon as they reach 13, at least they did when I was at school...

Homosexuality wasn't acceptable in our day though, God no, I'm only in my early 20s but peoples perceptions of homosexuality seem to have changed a lot since then.

When I was in school I would never ever have the guts to have my photo taken with another boy like the guys in your link, especially not to be published next to an article like that..

When we were at school, being gay was totally tabboo, nowadays it seems to be cool and acceptable.

The other day my cousin and I went to the mall, and afterwards we sat to a cappucino at a cafe, on the table next to us were 3 Apne teens, 2 boys and 1 girl all aged about 15-16, I started listening in on their conversation and the girl who was a hijabi was going on about how she has a private swimming pool at home and is inviting all her girl mates over for a party and a swim, the guys asked if they could come but she said she doesn't do mixed swimming with boys because she has to cover infront of them, to my surprise one of the boys (probably Sikh because he was wearing a Khanda locket) said "well I'm gay, surely you don't have to cover up infront of someone who's not attracted to you that way let alone perve on you", this is all whilst he's sat next to his Paki male friend, I almost had a heartattack, he came out with it so bluntly like it's as natural as him being brown or Punjabi and the funny thing is his mate didn't seem to mind one bit and he was the bad boy typess. God if someone said they was bisexual/open-minded to their classmates back in my day they'd get the living day lights knocked outta them!!

Another incident which I'll tell you about is, the other day I was walking my cousin and a neighbours son (about 12) home from school when my neighbours son pointed at a house and said out of the blue "my boyfriend lives there" and then started giggling, in my day if a boy was gay/bi he'd have no idea what his feelings were about and the most he'd have is daydreams about Ash out of Pokemon, they'd know nothing about making proper boyfriends... Young'ns these days eh!

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Re: Increasing number of teens engaged in same sex activities

Hhhmm...so what if ppl are accepting the fact that gays are normal? its just sexuality, and is personal.
and it *is *as normal as being brown or Punjabi.

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Actually only 2-6% identify themselves as gay. There is a very high percentage who have experimented with same sex. They are curious types. This is very common in college. One of the main reason is it is much easier to find a partner, pregnancy wise safe. There is a notion is try all kinds of sexuality and explore it. postings on craigslist list say a lot.

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Where do you draw the line?

Just because something is pleasurable to somone does not make it morrally right.

Next people will be advocating sons sleeping with their own mothers if both are consenting adults in the name of freedom.

We need moral guidelines to stop society from fcuking up.

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Re: Increasing number of teens engaged in same sex activities

May allah save us from this sin.

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Those who engage themselves in same sex activities are perverts and needed a good phycological and medical treatment.

In pakistan these perverts, if exposed and found, should be flogged heavily untill they give up their perversion.

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Re: Increasing number of teens engaged in same sex activities

?p=1280 from kinseyconfidential.org - StumbleUpon](http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/2r2cML/kinseyconfidential.org/?p=1280/r:t)

lthough many people have their own theories and ideas related to sexual orientation, there is no true “test” that one can take to determine whether they are bisexual, heterosexual, homosexual or some other evolving identity. Not to mention, not everyone likes to label their sexual orientation with these commonly used terms. Dr. Alfred Kinsey’s Research

Dr. Alfred Kinsey and his colleagues, in their 1948 book Sexual Behaviour of Human Male, wrote about the possibility that people may be quite fluid in their sexuality. Over the course of a person’s life, their sexual fantasies, attractions and behaviors may shift at different points.

Dr. Kinsey also wrote about the possibility that more people would express an interest in both women and men if there weren’t so many societal taboos around being sexual with members of one’s own sex.
The Trouble With Labels

Even now, there is some stigma around people who label themselves as “bisexual”. Some people believe that labeling oneself as bisexual is almost a cop-out – and that it’s just a transition period before a person comes out as gay or lesbian. Other people strongly disagree with this idea and are more accepting of the range of ways in which people experience their sexuality.

After all, there are quite a lot of people who identify as bisexual and who insist that their natural inclination is to be romantically and/or sexually attracted to both women and men. Research supports the idea that both men and women can be attracted to people of both sexes though it remains unclear what influences a person to be attracted mostly to people of their same sex, another sex or to both sexes.

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i wonder why there's always so much focus on teenage boys here.

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In a recent INDIA TODAY magazine they have mentioned that almost 57% of men surveyed in Ahmedabad engaged in same sex activity at some time in their life. Not sure if that is a representative of India.

http://indiatoday.intoday.in/site/Story/20587/Straight+from+the+heart.html?complete=1

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Its just not teenagers but married men too…

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aahhahahahahaa..lol.lol.lol

Wow..

I am not anti commonlaw and even I know that what you just compared is way off. :D

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Re: Increasing number of teens engaged in same sex activities

that's pretty disgusting.

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Mera matlab tha why is the taboo of gay sex only limited to men?

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whats so disgusting about not being against them?

They have the same rights as we all do. They just tend to go for the same sex because the opposite refused to accept them.

Ever thought of that? This is one of the major reasons we can not hate them but accept them as they have become.

If you can not accept someone for becoming due to the provoking of his own community and the rest of the communities who refuse to accept him.

we have no right to call them disgust or anything of that sort.

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Re: Increasing number of teens engaged in same sex activities

Many agree that there is a attraction between same sex, but do not agree with the concept of marriage. They think marriage should be between man and woman

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Is it true that Canada is more liberal compared to US in accepting same sex attraction

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I was making a General statement? Besides since when did "oh you are from here thats why you think this way" came to realisation?

And yes, Canada does teach to be liberal with every race, every kind, every specie.

Which is a good thing.

That is why there are very low rate of racists, coloists, sexists, anti-gay pridests, etc.

I am straight by the way.

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Doesnt it matter? Why is California more liberal than Lousiana? Canada more than US.