The culture is just a lot more open about it,'' says Gayle Forman, a senior writer for Seventeen. It is part of the popular culture on TV and the movies.
People know more gay people.
About 45 percent thought that counted as sex, and 40 percent believed it didn't. Fifteen percent were not sure. This area of sex education needs to be addressed,'' Forman says. Only teens 15 to 19 were asked questions about having sex. A total of 1,015 teens in 23 shopping malls across the country filled out questionnaires.