Discovery Health Secrets The New Teen Sexuality-NewWorld

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Release Date : 10/17/2006

Language : English

Size : 700 MB

Source : TV

Video Format : 1995 kbps Xvid

Resolution : 512 x 384

FPS : 29.971

Audio Format : MP3

Audio Bitrate : 48000Hz 116 kb/s total

Audio Channels: 2 channels







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What do the terms "Friends with Benefits", "The Rainbow Club" and

"She's a Freeze" mean? How many young teens are having sex and oral

sex? In a world of hyper-sexualized media and shifting sexual ethics

are teens getting the information they need to be safe? Follow four

Vancouver teens and their friends as we hear their most intimate

thoughts and bear witness to the difficult situations they must

negotiate. From long talks with worried parents to peer pressure at

parties this film is a look at discovering sexuality as it really is

for teens today.



Nearly 1 in 4 sexually active young people contracts a sexually

transmitted disease every year. And each year, about a million girls

ages 15-19 become pregnant. Teenagers discuss the fear of STD's,

the pressure to have sex, or the decision to wait.



A recently released study by the National Center for Health Statistics

in the U.S. indicates that major changes in the sexual practices of

teens have been taking place in the past few years. This study found

that more than half of American teenagers ages 15-19 have engaged in

oral sex. While this fact should be startling to most parents, of even

greater concern was the fact that both males and females reported

similar levels of experience. When combined with another finding of

this study that showed that slightly more girls than boys have

intercourse before they are 20 years old, the indication is that girls

are no longer the passive ones in sexual pursuits. Where once the boys

chased and the girls fended them off, now the participation in sexual

activities has become equal. This is a huge social change and it

brings with it equally huge implications for parents.



One of the weakest areas of modern parenting has always been the

inability or unwillingness of parents to talk to their children about

sex. Many jokes have been made about the awkwardness of the talk

that parents either don't give to their children about sex or give it

so awkwardly that it only embarrasses both sides. Most parents tend to

avoid the subject altogether, perhaps in the belief that if they don't

talk about it, sex will not happen. Obviously the studies show that

not only is this not true, but there is far more sexual activity today

than in previous recent generations. Of even more concern are the

variety of sexual activities that are taking place and the active

participation of females in these activities.



As a result it is more important than ever before that parents talk to

their children about sex and actively advise them about their moral

code and how to handle themselves in sexual encounters. This cannot be

done in one talk. Instead parents must be able to talk to their kids

about sex whenever an opportunity presents itself. These opportunities

come from newspaper articles, television shows, movies and even from

blogs like this one. All that is necessary is for a parent to say ‘I

read an interesting article today. It said that blah, blah, blah –

what do you think?’ This gets the teens involved in a non-threatening

way by inviting an opinion and can then be followed by a question such

as 'Do you and your friends do that?' Parents have to be able to be

able to talk about sex with their children as easily as they talk

about the weather. If they are at all awkward or avoid certain issues,

the teens will pick this up and not want to talk about the subject

either.



The key is for parents to keep informed about teenage trends and to

actively discuss them with their kids. This way the teens will

understand that their parents are available as a resource when a

difficult situation arises and will be willing and able to help the

teen with any problems that arise. Otherwise, with teen sexual

activity as high as it is, the potential for serious problems to arise

is dangerously high and parents will be faced with damage control when the

problem could have been prevented by frank discussion.







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