(USA Today) Two-thirds of teens and young adults have had oral sex — about as many as have had vaginal intercourse, suggests research by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The data speak to changing social mores and the need to educate teens about the risk of contracting a sexually transmitted disease from oral sex, experts say. The research shows that one in four teens is now having oral sex before vaginal sex — marking the “hierarchical reordering of oral sex in American culture,” says Justin Garcia, an evolutionary biologist with the Kinsey Institute at Indiana University. Many sex researchers had believed that oral sex was being used to defer vaginal sex, but that doesn’t seem to be the case for most teens today, says Terri Fisher, a professor of psychology at Ohio State University.
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