80 Percent of Teens Use Condoms When First Love

Awareness of the importance of safe sex seems to have possessed the teens. According to the survey, 80 percent of teenage boys use condoms the first time they had sex. In addition, since 1980, the number of teens who have sex outside marriage continues to decline.

Initiative of condom use in adolescents can be interpreted several ways, such as they begin to be responsible for his actions, either for self-protection from sexually transmitted diseases or contraception. However, the desire to wear a condom can also be derived from their girlfriends.

According to a survey report in 2006 - 2010 in the United States carried out on 4700 adolescents aged 15-19 years. In the survey were asked if they wear a condom when having sex the first time in three months.

The results of this survey revealed the percentage of adolescent males who use condoms at first sex rose from 71 percent in 2002 to 80 percent in this latest survey.

In 1988, only 55 percent of children who claimed to use condoms the first time to penetrate.

In general, 43 percent of teenage girls and 42 percent of young men admitted they had had sexual intercourse through the vagina. The amount is lower than the 1988 survey that found 51 percent of teenage girls and 60 percent of young men are having sex.

In this survey also revealed a teenager tend not to have sex if they live with parents who complete or if they are educated mothers. In addition the majority of teens say they love relationship with a lover who is expected to be permanent. Only 16 percent of teens who said they had sex with strangers or with friends.