It shows. In the recent Kaiser report, one in five young people said they believed that birth control pills protected them against AIDS and STDs.
Abstinence is usually not a realistic contraception option for most people across their entire reproductive lifespan. Even when the Web site is taken down, there's no way to tell how many people have made and kept copies for themselves. A popular Web site among kids to download
full *** free music from the Internet, KaZaA also allows users to post films and photos.
Personal Web sites are popular places to store such photos and films. Conover said. "Although I like to think this degree of stupidity is rare," she added, "I'm not sure I can say that with complete confidence." Teens said many of the films and photos depict drinking, throwing up and generally drunken behavior.
A virgin, said Alicia Gegick, 17, a Steel Valley High School graduate who attends Carlow College, is someone who "thinks he or she made a mistake to have *** once and vows to be abstinent." While that may not be clinically correct, it may be a sign that young teens, if they escape without having a baby, an abortion or contracting a disease, will reconsider their views of *** and turn to a somewhat more mature behavior ***ually.