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Girls this age shouldn't know terms like double stuffed
Your daughter is quiet, kind, and compassionate. Your angel. Your little princess. She's captain of the debate team, has a 4.0 GPA, and volunteers at the local soup kitchen. She's also a major slut. Yes, you showed her that bible verse about how sex outside of marriage is a sin. And yes, you told her that teenage sex leads to babies, STDs, and vaginas bursting spontaneously into flame, But that didn't stop her from wondering if the school quarterback could apply his sports stamina to her genitals.
Oprah Magazine and Seventeen, with the help of research firm Harris Interactive, recently teamed up for their first Mother-Daughter Sex Talk Survey, More than 1,000 girls ages 15-22 and 1,000 moms of girls those ages were polled. The girls were asked about their sexual attitudes, behaviors, and how candid they've been with their mothers about both. Sex researchers have long known that girls who broach the topic with their mothers before their first time are less likely to have regrets or engage in risky sexual behaviors. And girls who receive "the talk" are 50% less likely to get pregnant than those who don't. With this in mind, take a gander at some of the survey's juiciest findings:
* Only 22 percent of mothers think they're daughters are uncomfortable talking to them about sex, while 61 percent of girls say that, in fact, they are.
* Seventy-eight percent of surveyed girls that are no longer virgins say they've had sex without using a condom, and 65 percent of them say they lied about or hid it from their moms.
* A full 56 percent of girls who are no longer virgins have had sex without using any form of birth control.
* Moms who lost their virginity before ever having the sex conversation with their own mothers were more likely to report their daughters having intercourse.
* Girls reported getting the majority of their information about sex from the media and their friends.
* Forty percent of girls say their mothers have never talked to them about having sex, yet only 7 percent of moms say they have never talked to their daughters about having sex.
* In discussing sex, 75 percent of moms have talked about abstinence with their daughters. Only 35 percent have brought up pleasure (my youth group leader once told me that an orgasm was the devil's twitch. Does that count?).
While these statistics might make a pregnant woman cross her fingers and pray that her kid will have a penis, there is some encouraging news: A mom that has open and supportive conversations with her daughter really does result in her feeling more confident and making wiser, safer decisions when it comes to sex. So suck it up and prepare to talk coitus with your Jonas Brothers loving teen...or she might wind up a Jonas Brothers groupie.
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