It has been reported that approximately 50 percent of high school seniors have had sex. Although we are all aware of the dangers we still like to experiment. Research performed by the International Conference on AIDS states that young people are having sex earlier and more frequently then past generations. Young people also tend to postpone marriage until later in life which impedes monogamy. The conference relates the spread of STDs among people under 25 to the lack of monogamy seen today.
Many professionals blame the promiscuity of youth on the media.
We have grown up in a society that promotes and has commercialized sex. This is especially true in the entertainment industry. Our favorite forms of entertainment depict sex as casual and free of consequences. As a result sex on TV has become less of a taboo and more of a norm in society. Since sex is openly expressed in the media one would believe that young people are able to communicate openly about sex.