Sexually active teens say they use condoms more often with loose sexual partners than they do with their main sexual partners - that is, someone they consider a husband, a lover, a friend or a girlfriend.
But whether the main or casual sex partners, teens report some 20 unprotected sex acts per three months. The finding comes from a 1316 study of sexually active teenagers. Celia M. Lescano, PhD, of the Bradley / Hasbro Children's Research Center and Brown University was one of the researchers.
But whether the main or casual sex partners, teens report some 20 unprotected sex acts per three months. The finding comes from a 1316 study of sexually active teenagers. Celia M. Lescano, PhD, of the Bradley / Hasbro Children's Research Center and Brown University was one of the researchers.
"Unfortunately, this shows that the safety of teens using condoms most of the time estimate with a casual partner and underestimate the risks of unprotected sex with a serious partner," Lescano said in a press release. "Given these high rates of unprotected sex, teens in both groups is the chance of infection with HIV and sexually transmitted diseases."
Lescano and colleagues report their findings in the September issue of the Journal of Adolescent Health.
Different Sex Partners, various risks
Lescano and colleagues recruited teens in three U.S. cities: Atlanta, Miami, and Providence, RI The teens in age ranged from 15 to 21 with an average age of 18 years. Recruited from primary care clinics and outreach efforts, 49% of the teenagers were black, 24% were Hispanic, and 20% were non-Hispanic whites. More than half (57%) were women. All were heterosexual.
The teens completed audio computer - Guided self - interviews. They were asked about their sexual activity in the last 90 days. For each sex act, they were asked whether their partner was a If so, the partner was considered an important partner "spouse, lover or friend." If not, a casual partner.
More than one third of the teens - most of them men - reported sex with a casual partner. Those with casual partners more sexual partners (3.24) averaged over the report's main partners (1.34). About 10% of teens with main partners also reported casual partners.
As previous studies have shown teens used condoms more often during vaginal and anal sex with casual partners than with main partners. However, they used condoms only half the time - far too little to protect against sexually transmitted diseases. And teens with main partners used condoms only 37% of the time.
As expected from these findings, children and young people with key partners reported having had so many sexually transmitted diseases as those with casual partners.
Serial monogamy Not Safe Sex Strategy
Why do so many teenagers have unprotected sex? It is not clear. It is clear that teenagers consider single risky sex partners. Yet Lescano and colleagues find that the decisions teens to use condoms are based more on a partner's attitude toward condoms than on their own perception of risk.
And teenagers may be a false sense of security about main partners. It is false security because there are so many children and adolescents with major partners have casual partners. And it's false because serial monogamy - having an "important" partner for a short time and then - safe sex is not an effective strategy.
"Sexual health may be jeopardized when one partner sees the relationship as a mutual one involved and not the other partner," Lescano and colleagues note. "Given the high frequency of multiple partners, partner type .. do not provide security."
The researchers conclude that when advising teens on safe sex, it is important to the need for consistent condom use stress - regardless of teenage feelings for the partner, sense of participation of the partner, or the length of the relationship.
Lescano and colleagues report their findings in the September issue of the Journal of Adolescent Health.
Different Sex Partners, various risks
Lescano and colleagues recruited teens in three U.S. cities: Atlanta, Miami, and Providence, RI The teens in age ranged from 15 to 21 with an average age of 18 years. Recruited from primary care clinics and outreach efforts, 49% of the teenagers were black, 24% were Hispanic, and 20% were non-Hispanic whites. More than half (57%) were women. All were heterosexual.
The teens completed audio computer - Guided self - interviews. They were asked about their sexual activity in the last 90 days. For each sex act, they were asked whether their partner was a If so, the partner was considered an important partner "spouse, lover or friend." If not, a casual partner.
More than one third of the teens - most of them men - reported sex with a casual partner. Those with casual partners more sexual partners (3.24) averaged over the report's main partners (1.34). About 10% of teens with main partners also reported casual partners.
As previous studies have shown teens used condoms more often during vaginal and anal sex with casual partners than with main partners. However, they used condoms only half the time - far too little to protect against sexually transmitted diseases. And teens with main partners used condoms only 37% of the time.
As expected from these findings, children and young people with key partners reported having had so many sexually transmitted diseases as those with casual partners.
Serial monogamy Not Safe Sex Strategy
Why do so many teenagers have unprotected sex? It is not clear. It is clear that teenagers consider single risky sex partners. Yet Lescano and colleagues find that the decisions teens to use condoms are based more on a partner's attitude toward condoms than on their own perception of risk.
And teenagers may be a false sense of security about main partners. It is false security because there are so many children and adolescents with major partners have casual partners. And it's false because serial monogamy - having an "important" partner for a short time and then - safe sex is not an effective strategy.
"Sexual health may be jeopardized when one partner sees the relationship as a mutual one involved and not the other partner," Lescano and colleagues note. "Given the high frequency of multiple partners, partner type .. do not provide security."
The researchers conclude that when advising teens on safe sex, it is important to the need for consistent condom use stress - regardless of teenage feelings for the partner, sense of participation of the partner, or the length of the relationship.
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