The clear implication: to protect kids, educators need to get into the specifics of oral and anal sex and teach kids how to use condoms and dental dams.
The answer reveals itself in one report's title, "Oral Sex Among Adolescents: Is It Sex or Is It Abstinence? Two articles in December's Family Planning Perspectives—both extensively reported in the New York Times and USA Today—might make you think that the nation's teens have just started to indulge in new, dangerous sexual practices that require a forceful response from public health officials.
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Maryland teens who engage in sexting can receive up to 20 years in prison and a lifetime sexual offender status for producing or possessing teen sexual content, the Pediatrics article noted.