Talk of the Birds, Bees and STDs May Curb Risky Sex

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Talk of the Birds, Bees and STDs May Curb Risky Sex

Reuters Health Information Services (www.reutershealth.com) (12/14/00)
Huggins, Charnicia E.

New research presented at the recent meeting of the American Public Health Association indicates that frequent discussions between parents and children about sex-related issues could keep African-American female teenagers from participating in dangerous sexual activities. Researchers, led by Dr. Richard Crosby of Emory University, surveyed 522 sexually active African-American adolescent females and found that subjects who did not talk about sex with their parents very often were more likely to engage in risky sexual behavior than those who regularly discussed sex with their parents. The girls who discussed sex issues less often were nearly two times as likely as the others to report that they did not use a condom the last time they had sex. Furthermore, the girls who did discuss sex with their parents were much more likely to bring up pregnancy and sexually transmitted disease/HIV prevention with their current sex partner.
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