Sexual activity begins early for many teens.
Chlamydia is more common among teens than among older men and women, and teens have higher rates of gonorrhea than men and women aged 20-44. The HIV epidemic in the US is increasingly becoming an epidemic of the young. One fourth of all new HIV infections in the US occur in people under the age of 22, and one half of all new infections occur in people under age 25. I was taken by surprise. In spite of these staggering statistics, many parents are unaware of or in denial about their children's sexual experience.