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[QUOTE]NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Masturbation could play an important role in sexual self-awareness and condom use in teenage boys, according to a new report.
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Researchers found 86 percent of boys who said they'd worn a condom last time they had sex also reported masturbating over the past year, compared to only 44 percent of boys who didn't masturbate.[/B]
While that link doesn't prove that masturbation itself leads to safer sex, "the association of any behavior with increased condom use deserves further investigation, given the rates of unintended pregnancies and sexually transmitted infections in adolescents," the report says.
In 2009, there were nearly 410,000 births to girls aged 15 to 19 in the U.S., where teen motherhood racks up public costs of an estimated $9.1 billion.
The new study, supported by Trojan condom maker Church & Dwight Co, is based on a nationally representative survey of 820 adolescents between 14 and 17 years old.
Dr. Cynthia Robbins at Indiana University in Indianapolis and colleagues found that nearly three-quarters of boys said they masturbated, while less than half of girls did so.
Those kids who masturbated reported having more sex than those who didn't, including oral sex and vaginal intercourse.
After taking age and partner status into account, sexually active boys who masturbated were about eight times as likely to have used a condom during their last intercourse as boys who didn't masturbate.
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For unknown reasons, there was no such link for girls.[/B]
Writing in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, the researchers note that masturbation is a highly stigmatized topic in the U.S., and that[B] many doctors shy away from discussing the common phenomenon.[/B]
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Yay.
who doesn't masturbate
[quote]
Writing in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, the researchers note that masturbation is a highly stigmatized topic in the U.S., and that[B] many doctors shy away from discussing the common phenomenon.[/B][/quote]
And these are the people who tell us not to be so shy about our more embarrassing problems?
[QUOTE=Psycho_Shadow;31489739]who doesn't masturbate[/QUOTE]
no one
Well facepunch's confidence just shot through the roof.
No STD's for me!
[QUOTE=Psycho_Shadow;31489739]who doesn't masturbate[/QUOTE]
people uncomfortable with themselves
Huh.
Makes sense, given that people who masturbate are going to be much less forward
every 5 hours, im an expert on contraception now
so once and for all tugging the trouser snake is good for you
[QUOTE=redBadger;31489806]Well facepunch's confidence just shot through the roof.[/QUOTE]
You say that like you don't masturbate too :v:
wow my sex must be SO safe
Looks like I'd be safe.
If I ever got lucky.
[tab]forever alone[/tab]
correlation =/= causation
wait wait wait are they saying that people who masturbate have more sex in general or that their sex is just safer
[editline]2nd August 2011[/editline]
cuz the first one would be pretty cool
No matter what sex i have, it'll be safe because both me and my girl are infertile :smithicide:
[QUOTE=MightyMax;31490076]No matter what sex i have, it'll be safe because both me and my girl are infertile :smithicide:[/QUOTE]
That doesn't make it safe.
Unless neither of you ever fucks around, pregnancy isn't the only qualification for "safe sex"
no fuckin way where the kids who said they didnt masturbate tellin the truth
What about [I]girls[/I] who masterbate?
It's very difficult to say no to unprotected sex.
[QUOTE=DrChernobyl;31490145]What about [I]girls[/I] who masterbate?[/QUOTE]
Where's bad reading when you need it?
Was gonna say the kids who don't masturbate probably didn't because they got more sex but saw this
[quote]Those kids who masturbated reported having more sex than those who didn't, including oral sex and vaginal intercourse.[/quote]
Looks like I'm gonna be healthy as a horse!
I am pretty sure that by "safe sex", they mean "just not having sex".
No STDs for me either! and not just because I masturbate... :smith:
[QUOTE=Patriarch;31490402]I am pretty sure that by "safe sex", they mean "just not having sex".[/QUOTE]
learn how to read, the ones who masturbated had more sex.
[QUOTE=Arvuti;31490440]learn how to read, the ones who masturbated had more sex.[/QUOTE]
Yes, but with [i]whom[/i]?
[QUOTE=Patriarch;31490497]Yes, but with [i]whom[/i]?[/QUOTE]
Themselves!
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