REPORT: Pandemic Sent High School Sex To New Low
April 27, 2023 12:56PM PDT
FILE – People are silhouetted against the sky as the sun sets Wednesday, May 11, 2022, in Kansas City, Mo. According to a report released by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday, April 27, 2023, the first years of the pandemic saw a huge decline in high school students having sex. Teen sex was already becoming less and less common before COVID-19. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)
NEW YORK (AP) — The first years of the COVID-19 pandemic saw a huge decline in high school students having sex.
That’s according to a large government survey conducted every two years.
Teen sex was already becoming less and less common before the pandemic.
About three decades ago, more than half of teens said they’d had sex.
In 2021, less than a third said they had ever had sex.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday released reports analyzing the latest findings from the survey.
The pandemic kept many teens apart.
Health experts note the lower rate comes at the same time teens are reporting more social isolation.
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