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teen sex stories: 22 news summaries

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Parents Council Freaks Over 
 Gossip Girl Threesome 

Urges local affiliates to preempt the program

Nov 4, 09 10:27 AM CST
(Newser) - The Parents Television Council is on the warpath, this time over news that the upcoming episode of Gossip Girl will feature a threesome. The group has sent a letter to CW affiliates warning that they’ll be “complicit in establishing a precedent and expectation that teenagers should engage... More »

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television • sex • Parents Television Council • teen sex • Gossip Girl

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 Girls Who Try Sex Early 
 Driven by Genes 

Absentee fathers not to blame, study says

Sep 19, 09 3:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - Absentee fathers may not be at fault for daughters who experiment with sex at an early age, the Economist reports. Researchers have long noted that girls with no dad around tend to reach sexual maturity earlier, suffer from depression, criticize their bodies, and get pregnant early on. But a new... More »

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genes • father • genetic code • teen sex

OPINION

Hogwarts Is Rife With Homosexual Tension


Jul 18, 09 8:35 AM CDT
(Newser) - No fancy divining necessary: Anyone with decent gaydar can see that new Harry Potter movie is awash in homoeroticism, Natasha Vargas-Cooper writes on Gawker. Hogwarts is seething with hormones in the Half-Blood Prince, she notes, but with the idea of "loose lady wizards" a no-no, most of the flirtation... More »

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Harry Potter • homosexuality • Daniel Radcliffe • teen sex • Hogwarts • Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

OPINION

 Harry Potter Is 
 Neutering America 

At the box office, the chaste rule, writer says

Jul 16, 09 8:06 AM CDT
(Newser) - Remember the old teen sex comedies, where hormones ruled and no one talked about their feelings? Hollywood doesn't, ST VanAirsdale writes in Esquire. Today's sexless blockbusters—think the Harry Potter flicks and Twilight—reflect how "our PG-13 imperative has scrubbed mass culture of its libido." The new leading... More »

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entertainment • Harry Potter • sex • Transformers • teen sex • movies • Esquire • teenager • Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince • Twilight • Stephenie Meyer

 Wanna Have Sex? 
 Picture 'Screaming 
 Baby': Bristol 

Teen mom ensures years of therapy for her child with one comment

May 20, 09 10:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - Bristol Palin thinks the best advertisement for abstinence is “a screaming newborn baby,” she tells People in a look at the life of a teenage mom. “If girls realized the consequences of sex, nobody would be having sex,” says Bristol, who graduated high school last week,... More »

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abstinence education • abstinence • teen pregnancy • teen sex • Bristol Palin • Levi Johnston • Tripp Easton Mitchell Johnston

 Dad Killed 
 Daughter 
 Carrying 
 His Baby: Cops 

Body is tossed into boiler

May 14, 09 4:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - A 14-year-old girl strangled by her father was carrying his baby, prosecutors revealed yesterday. Miguel Matias, 36, has confessed to killing his daughter because he caught the teen typing  "sexy things" on her computer, reports the New York Daily News. Authorities have now discovered that DNA taken from girl's... More »

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parenting • crime • murder • fetus • teen sex • incest • teenager • sex assault

 Sexting Pics 
 Live Forever, 
 Teens Warned 

Stalkers, potential employers may have access to photos years later

May 4, 09 6:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - The critical problem with sexting is that salacious snaps teens send of themselves from their cell phones can exist forever in cyberspace. That's the message Australian authorities are stressing in a new educational anti-sexting campaign. Nude pictures sent in fun could end up being posted on the Internet by sexual... More »

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Internet • sexual harassment • pornography • harassment • child pornography • texting • teen sex • cyberspace • teenager • sexting


 Vermont  May Legalize 
 Sexting—Between Teens 


Bill moving through legislature to legalize sexually explicit teen communications

Apr 14, 09 10:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - Vermont’s state government is in an awkward position. Current law has the state prosecuting teens who send sexually explicit pictures of themselves to each other—sexting—as sex offenders. The state Senate has passed a bill to exempt an exchange of images between people between 13 and 18 years... More »

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cell phones • Vermont • text message • child pornography • state legislature • teen sex • sexting

Teen Date Stabbed Newsman
50 Times: Cops

Attack occurred during sex arranged through teen's MySpace web page

Mar 26, 09 4:39 AM CDT
(Newser) - A disturbed teenager stabbed an ABC radio newsman 50 times during $60 sex arranged through the boy's satanic MySpace web page, reports the New York Daily News. George Weber was found dead in his bed earlier this week after the knife-obsessed hustler attacked him, the 16-year-old confessed to police. The... More »

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crime • murder • sex • journalist • stabbing • teen sex • teenager • pedophilia • Howard Stern Grid


 Miley Not Ready 
 for Live-In Love 

Teen is too easily annoyed to live with older boyfriend

Mar 11, 09 12:17 PM CDT
(Newser) - Miley Cyrus isn’t ready to move in with her 20-year-old boyfriend—not because she’s a mere 16 years old, but because she gets “annoyed really easily,” the New York Post reports. The Disney starlet told a Detroit radio station, “Just like, everything has to, like,... More »

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Disney • celebrity • Miley Cyrus • teen sex • cohabitation • Justin Gaston

 Bristol: Mom 
 Clueless About 
 Teenage Sex 

Abstinence is 'not realistic at all'

Feb 17, 09 6:53 AM CST
(Newser) - Sarah Palin doesn't have a clue about teenage sexuality, her 18-year-old daughter, Bristol, indicated in a Fox News interview last night. The former VP candidate backs teen sexual abstinence, but that's just "not realistic at all," the teen mom told Greta Van Susteren. And while teenage sex may... More »

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baby • teen pregnancy • teen sex • Sarah Palin • Bristol Palin

Teen Sex on ABC Family Sparks Debate

Parents complain Secret Life situations are too risqué for kids

Feb 1, 09 7:07 AM CST
(Newser) - Edgier programming  by the Disney-owned ABC Family channel may have boosted ratings and advertising, but many parents are angry about the changes. New series, particularly The Secret Life of the American Teenager, have sparked debate about whether the offerings are truly family programming, reports the Los Angeles Times. Parents concerned... More »

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programming • family values • teen sex • network television • ABC Family • The Secret Life of the American Teenager

 Teen Sex: 
 Everybody Else 
 Isn't Doing It 

Teen sex is on a downswing

Jan 27, 09 1:29 PM CST
(Newser) - Kids these days, with their sex, their sex, and all their sex. Just look at Jamie Lynn Spears and Bristol Palin—it’s getting worse all the time, right? Nope. The portion of high-schoolers who’d had sex in 2007 was 47.8%, reports the New York Times—down from... More »

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study • sex • oral sex • statistics • Jamie Lynn Spears • teen pregnancy • teen sex • teenager • Bristol Palin

ANALYSIS

Teen Tramp Trend Is
Media Myth

Girls lust after
saucy look, but
not so hot for sex

Sep 14, 08 4:59 AM CDT
(Newser) - High-profile pregnant teens like Bristol Palin and Jamie-Lynn Spears paint a picture of teenage girls run amok with lust, writes Belinda Luscombe in Time. But while “girls seem to have moved from Easy-Bake to easy virtue” in the last generation, Luscombe argues that the teens are often more interested... More »

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Miley Cyrus • Jamie Lynn Spears • teen pregnancy • teen sex • teenager • Bristol Palin

Mom: Britney Had Booze, Sex, Drugs ... All by Age 15

Lynne Spears' new memoir reveals daughter's downward spiral

Sep 4, 08 12:58 PM CDT
(Newser) - Britney Spears started boozing at 13, lost her virginity at 14, and took drugs at 15, mother Lynne Spears writes in her upcoming memoir, Through the Storm. The Sun reports that in the book due Sept. 16, Lynne expresses regret for letting her daughter become a sex object and believes... More »

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Britney Spears • memoir • drug abuse • Lynne Spears • teen sex • underage drinking • celebrity tell-alls • celebrity parents

 Miley Offered $1M Condom Deal 

Manufacturer wants teen sensation to endorse safe sex

Jul 28, 08 11:21 AM CDT
(Newser) - Miley Cyrus has said publicly she’ll wait until marriage to have sex, but that isn't stopping a condom company from offering the 15-year-old a lucrative endorsement deal and a lifetime supply of protection. Reps for the tween sensation tell the New York Daily News they haven't been approached but... More »

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celebrity • condom • Miley Cyrus • teen sex • endorsement

Survey Reveals Abuse In Teen, Tween Dating

Of those sexually active by 14, 69% have seen physical, mental harm

Jul 9, 08 5:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - Tween and teen dating is far from a bunch of innocent hand-holding: A survey finds 69% of teens who have had sex by 14 have suffered physical or emotional abuse in relationships, with only half of tweens knowing how to recognize a hurtful relationship. CBS reports more stats:
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abuse • dating • relationship • teen sex • teen health • verbal abuse • teenager • physical abuse

Teen Sex Rate Stops Dropping

Condom use also levels off, reviving debate about abstinence sex ed

Jun 5, 08 8:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - A decade-long drop in the teen sex rate leveled off between 2001-2007 and it may now be slowly rising again, the Washington Post reports. The government survey of thousands of high school students also found that an increase in condom use flattened out in 2003. The numbers have alarmed public... More »

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birth control • condom • abstinence education • abstinence • teen pregnancy • teen sex • teenager

 Energy Drinks Linked
 to Risk-Taking 

Two studies find increased incidence of risky sexual behavior, binge drinking

May 27, 08 1:59 PM CDT
(Newser) - Beside nausea and stomach trouble, there’s a new reason to be concerned when you see your teen slamming four Red Bulls in an afternoon, the New York Times reports: risky behavior. A study in the Journal of American College Health links use of energy drinks with risky behavior such... More »

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high school • caffeine • energy drink • teen sex • teen drinking • risky behavior • risk-taking

Teens Not That Into 'Technical Virginity'

Oral sex as substitute for intercourse not as common as thought

May 20, 08 4:54 PM CDT
(Newser) - Teens rarely have oral sex as a way of putting off intercourse, making the idea of "technical virginity" is more or less a myth, according to a new study. "There's a popular perception that teens are engaging in serial oral sex as a strategy to avoid vaginal intercourse.... More »

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oral sex • teen sex

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