Original sentence: However, co-author of the study Dennie Hughes cautions, "We need to move away from the idea that girls who engage in oral sex but not intercourse are 'technical' virgins – that you're not having sex because no one's penetrating you.In contrast, author of a study released in 2008 by the Guttmacher Institute, Laura Lindberg, stated that there "is a widespread belief that teens engage in nonvaginal forms of sex, especially oral sex, as a way to be sexually active while still claiming that technically, they are virgins," but that her study drew the conclusion that "research shows that this supposed substitution of oral sex for vaginal sex is largely a myth"
Edited sentence: "There is a widespread belief that teens engage in nonvaginal forms of sex, especially oral sex, as a way to be sexually active while still claiming that technically, they are virgins," says study author Laura Lindberg.A study released in 2008 by the Guttmacher Institute supported this substitution theory.However, co-author Dennie Hughes cautions, "We need to move away from the idea that girls who engage in oral sex but not intercourse are 'technical' virgins – that you're not having sex because no one's penetrating you