Article: MILTON CASE AN ENTREE TO DISCUSSIONS ON ORAL SEX

It hasn't happened the way any parent, educator, or school would wish for, but by putting a 15-year-old girl on leave and expelling five varsity hockey players for engaging in oral sex in a locker room, Milton Academy has given parents everywhere a reason to talk openly with our children about oral sex. That's a good thing. Researchers and clinicians have mostly only anecdotal evidence to rely on, but here's what they widely accept as true:

By third grade, the typical boy has heard the colloquial term for oral sex, but doesn't have a clue what it means.

By sixth or seventh grade, most boys and girls do. Some are experimenting with it, often in groups, sometimes in the back of a school bus.

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