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- More than one million
teens become pregnant each year.
- Babies of young teen
mothers are more likely to be born with serious health
problems.
- Sexually transmitted
diseases (STDs) and sexually transmitted infections
(STIs) may cause some extreme pain.
- STDs/STIs may cause
sterility (being unable to have children in the future).
Some are also incurable and may even cause death.
- A girl can get pregnant
even if she is on her period.
- Abstinence (not having
sex) is the only method of birth control that is 100
percent effective.
- A girl can get pregnant
even if a boy doesn't ejaculate or "cum"
inside her.
- Every year, three
million teenagers get a sexually transmitted infection.
- Teenagers can be
treated for sexually transmitted infections without
their parents' permission.
- Adolescents aged
13 to 19 have the highest rate of sexually transmitted
infections (chlamydia, genital herpes/warts, gonorrhea,
HIV/AIDS, syphilis) of any age group.
- More than 2.7 million
teenagers use contraceptives, and more than 1 million
rely on the birth control pill.
- More than one-third
of teenage girls choose condoms as their primary method
of contraceptives.
- A girl can get pregnant
the first time she has sex.
Source: Wise Guys Male Responsibility
Curriculum, Family Life Council of Greater Greensboro,
Inc., Greensboro, NC, 1999.
Sex for teens is pretty risky.
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