The teen and young adult years are a time of sexual exploration and anal sex is one of the "underground" behaviors that is becoming more common, but also more dangerous.
He wanted to try anal sex, and even though the 20-year-old said she was "OK with the idea," she nervously downed several drinks before their lovemaking began.
Within 15 seconds, Carry -- not her real name -- said she was "crying and asking him to stop."
They never did it again. But experts say that as social morales ease, more young heterosexuals are engaging in anal sex, a behavior once rarely mentioned in polite circles. And the experimentation, they worry, may be linked to the current increase in sexually transmitted diseases.
Recently, researchers at the Bradley Hasbro Children's Research Center in Rhode Island suggested that anal sex is on the rise among teens and young adults, particularly those who have unprotected vaginal sex.
Experts say girls and young women like Carry are often persuaded to try such sexual behavior for the wrong reasons -- to please a partner, to have sex without the risk of pregnancy or to preserve their virginity. But many don't understand the health consequences.
"It really is shocking how many myths young people have about anal sex," said Judy Kuriansky, a Columbia University professor and author of "Sexuality Education: Past Present and Future."
"They don't think you can get a disease from it because you're not having intercourse," she told ABCNews.com. "They can actually recite by rote how you get AIDS, but it doesn't transfer to their personal behavior."
The study included a comprehensive questionnaire about adolescent sexual and other risk behaviors. The participants self-reported their answers, which scientists say can skew the results in this type of study. To compensate, researchers used audio computer-assisted self -interview technology, allowing participants to enter their responses directly into a computer, rather than having to report to an interviewer.
"Given the subject matter, it is likely that the numbers reported may actually be an underestimate of the prevalence of these behaviors," said Celia Lescano of Brown University, the Bradley Hasbro study's lead author.
More than one-third of new HIV infections in the United States occur among people between the ages of 13 and 29 and can be attributed to the mind-set among youth that they are not at risk of contracting the virus, according to the Kaiser Foundation.
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- justright
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Many studies I've seen ask teens if they are having sex, "No" the majority say, but when asked if they are having anal or oral relations the answer often is a resounding "Yes".
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i have heard of some christian girls that don't want to have premarital sex (vaginally) but are willing to engage in anal sex... tricking GOD i suppose (casue his list isn't as good at fact finding as santa's)
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- phillyphil
- 12 months ago
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I was hoping there would be more information of diseases other than, the obvious, HIV/ AIDS. Are there any new diseases, contracted from anal sex that may be rising?
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- VitaminStolz
- 12 months ago
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yay, i love butt darts. im glad more teams are forming- who wants to play?
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ps. im only voting this up because its about anal sex.
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Peer pressure today is at an all time high. I have always hated to see what people will do to be accepted, if you want to do it because it interests you, then go for it, other then that why do it because you want to fit in?
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Wow, ABC must be really slow today.
Who conducts the studies on the prevalence of anal sex? As far as I know, people have been doing it all ages for a long time now.
Furthermore, this article of stinks of quasi-Christian, anti-scientific bullshit.
"But many don't understand the health consequences.
"It really is shocking how many myths young people have about anal sex," said Judy Kuriansky
"They can actually recite by rote how you get AIDS, but it doesn't transfer to their personal behavior.""
How is anal sex unique in that way? The example they gave is two committed people who have had no other partners, soooo it's totally irrelevant what they do from an STD perspective.
I guess this is news to baby boomers though.
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They been watching porn, pornstars make it look all easy.
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wut
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- deeblackangel
- 12 months ago
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HENCE WHY YOU NEED TO EDUCATE TEENS ON ALL KINDS OF SEX...ORAL, VAGINAL, OR ANAL AND ALSO EDUCATE THEM ON BIRTH CONTROL! AT LEAST THAT WAY THERE WOULDN'T BE ANY PROBLEM WITH STD'S! HAS ANYONE LEARNED ANYTHING SINCE THE 1800S!?!?!? KIDS DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY'RE DOING AND THEREFORE A GOOD SEXUAL EDUCATION COULD HELP THEM FROM HAVING TEEN PREGNANCIES, SPREADING AIDS, AND LOWER ABORTION RATES!
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- pinkerbelle
- 12 months ago
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Good VID!!!c EXACTLY WHAT??? Liars
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Back in the day, we reserved anal sex as a last resort, such as the complete absence of contraception (condoms, the pill, etc.) or for when she was on her period.
I think morality is on the decline indeed. ;P
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I don't see anything wrong with anal sex, or that it's supposedly more morally 'degenerate' or whatever than vaginal sex, as long as the participants are sensative to each other and know the risks and how to be safe. More education if called for, i think, rather than this collective disgusted shaking of the head that ABC seems to be implying.
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The reason why some girls are doing it? is because they want to keep the virginity until they get married the rest of them they just want to try something new.
I will recomend to the boyfriend of that girl before he does anything to her,he has to warm the girl up and use lubricant (KY).
Mature women do it for special days, I will recomen d to all the guys out there to use condom or otherwise you might get an infection.
Some women are addicted to this , they are open mind, the will go the whole nine yards.-
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- Tayllerand
- 12 months ago
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Ok, I'm a guy and I would never have anal sex with a female. That's just too dam nasty (and degrading to the female).
2pac said it best- "wonder why they call you bitch". Listen to the song. -
Anyone heard of the virus that makes ants continually climb up stalks of leaves so that they'll be eaten and the virus will be spread? Or rabies that makes people bite to spread itself?
Experimenting is one thing, but sheer stupidity is another.
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yay....anal sex!!!
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- chuckiebean
- 12 months ago
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Liberalism at it's finest....
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- Liberal_Extinction
- 12 months ago
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I always heard if you had anal sex you wouldn't be able to hold your poop in 'cuz all your muscles would be stretched out and beat up. Nothin' like a good turd in your pants to turn ya on, riiight??!
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Well between two consenting adults they can do whatever they want... I don't know why anal sex would more "underground" than other things...
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The way nature intended it.huh!
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I run a lot of workshops about STDs for the GLTB Youth. Anal sex is always at the top of the list for risky behavior because the rectum tissue is fragile and easy to tear and therefore lead to blood, which can transmit a high contraction of STD.
Like actual vaginal sex you have to take steps before stuff a penis in there. And like Tayllerand suggested; Lube lube lube :)
Anal sex is nothing to be scared of, you just have to know what you're doing.
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- oracleruby
- 12 months ago
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I guess they think that doing anything other than vaginal intercourse is like someone else masturbating them. Sure it's not sex.
They are uneducated twats.
Anything to make it seem like they are pure and chaste.
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No fair. Where was all of this experimentation and ignorance when I was a teen?
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- marklemagne
- 12 months ago
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dOOkie comes out of that hole. Call me crazy but I'm not sticking my most sensitive organ into a dungeon in which poop dwells.
