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Article: All teen-agers aren't having sex, according to new survey of high school students. (Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers) (Column)
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- May 24, 1994
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Everybody's not doing it. According to a new survey of high school students, 64 percent are virgins, and more than half of those who've had sex wish they'd waited a few years.
Admittedly, the survey, done by Roper Starch and the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States, may be too good to be true. It was a telephone poll of 503 teen-agers. The Centers for Disease Control did a mail-in questionnaire to 11,631 high school students in 1990: Only 46 percent said they were virgins.
It's unlikely that chastity is making that dramatic a comeback.
Furthermore, a recent poll of 1,000 sixth- through eighth-graders in Chicago public schools found 26 ...
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