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Science Australian researchers study oral sex and U.S. Presidents | Australian researchers study oral sex and U.S. Presidents |
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| by William Atkins | |
| Monday, 08 December 2008 | |
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Page 2 of 3 The two researchers comment that the age at which children first have sex has been decreasing in Australia for at least the last fifty years. No doubt, such declines are also found in most, if not all, industrialized countries of the world. Featured Whitepaper
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Science DiscussionsThe difference in when vaginal intercourse is first experiences and that of oral sex has also lessened over the years. The researchers state that the difference in median age of first vaginal intercourse and first oral sex has been reduced to six years (in older participants of the study) to one year (in younger participants). They also stated, “There is also some suggestion that the temporal ordering may be changing, such that for some oral sex occurs before vaginal intercourse.” In addition, “These shifts have been paralleled with attitudinal changes: only 45.9% of study participants aged 16–19 years agreed with the statement ‘If two people had oral sex, but not intercourse, you would still consider that they had had sex together’, whereas 76.5% of participants aged 50–59 years did agree. If having oral sex is consistent with not having sex, considerable ambiguity emerges around the notion of virginity and what it might mean to be sexually abstinent.” They also comment on another recent study that concluded 83.5% of the study participants believed adolescents were still virgins if they only engaged in genital touching, while 70.6% though virginity remained if they only participated in oral sex. In addition, 16.1% of the participants maintained that virginity remained if adolescents only engaged in anal sex. Page three has the researchers asking some questions on oral sex and discusses why we are more apt to discuss oral sex in public because of Presidents Clinton and Bush. |
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