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Sexual behavior among Americans aged 15 to 24
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Many young persons in the United States engage in risky sexual behavior and
experience negative reproductive health outcomes between 2002 and 2007,
according to a report released on July 17 by the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention.
The following is part of the CDC report that shows the sexual behavior among the
persons aged 15 to 24 years.
Sexual Behaviors
NSFG (the National Survey of Family Growth ) data for 2002 were used to present
the percentage of adolescents and young adults who engaged in a range of sexual
risk behaviors (Tables 2 and 3). Among female adolescents aged 15--17 years,
30.0% reported ever having had sex, compared with 70.6% of those aged 18--19
years (Table 2). Among adolescent males aged 15--17 years, 31.6% reported ever
having had sex, compared with 64.7% of those aged 18--19 years (Table 3). Among
females aged 18--24 years, 9.6% who had sex by age 20 years reported having had
nonvoluntary first intercourse. Having ever been forced to have intercourse was
reported by 14.3% of females aged 18--19 years and 19.1% of females aged 20--24
years (Table 2). Among teenagers aged 15--19 years, 13.1% of females and 14.8%
of males reported having had sex at age