For Immediate Release: June 22, 2017 - Among teen females aged 15-19, 42% had ever had sex, and among teen males, the percent was 44%.
How many teens are choosing not to have sex? adolescents are engaging in sexual behaviors other than vaginal intercourse: about half have had oral sex.
Trends in sexual activity among teens. Sexually active teens In 2015, 30.1 percent of high school students reported being sexually active. In 2015, slightly more male students reported having sexual intercourse than female since 1991, when blacks were nearly twice as likely as students in the other two groups to.
The proportion of young people who have had sexual intercourse increases rapidly as they age Use of condoms and other contraceptives reduce adolescents' risk of Lenhart A, Smith A and Anderson M, Teens, Technology and Romantic.
Data about teens' sexual experiences other than intercourse is more limited. However, in 1995, 53 percent of teen males aged 15-19 said they had been.