The President Clinton-Monica Lewinsky scandal. Clinton said oral sex isn't sex. Talking about oral sex has become commonplace in media that never would have used the term before the publicity about Clinton's actions. Public awareness of the act has increased, many experts say. The freedom from pregnancy and the belief that oral sex prevents disease.
Teens talk freely about what happens among their friends.
It's something that happens at a party, is whispered about between friends and forgotten about the next week. Intercourse is, for some people, a huge leap from oral sex. I don't think anybody does. I know freshmen who have done way more than anyone in my grade. One of the most quoted documents on adolescent sexuality was published in 1996 by Mark Schuster, a pediatrician at the University of California at Los Angeles and an investigator with RAND, a non-profit research institution.