Sex Stats and Psych wards 6/17/2002
I just read one of my favorite's entries...it was actually an interesting entry. But then again I'm an odd person, and I find weird things interesting...Here's part of the entry:
About 25% of 15 year olds have had sex
About 55% of 17 year olds have had sex
About 80% of 19 year olds have had sex
About 20% of young people do not have sex while teens
Taken from: "Teen Sex and Pregnancy," Facts in Breif, AGI, 1998
Twelve million American teens are sexually active. 7 million males and 5 million females. About 11 million are unmarried.
Fifteen million teens are not sexually active. But half will begin to have sex before they reach their twentieth birthday.
The average teen becomes sexually active at age 16. One out of every five 15-year-old-girls and one out of every three 15-year-old-boys have begun to have sex.
I feel kind of out of place now. Eighty percent of 19 year olds are sexually active. Dude. I can barely get guys to talk to me. Aren't freshman college girls supposed to be the most sought-after? My sister and mother told me, before I started college, that boys are going to be going crazy. They made it sound like I would be turning doen sex left and right. Not that I want to have sex with a random boy, but still...I hate the feeling of not being normal.
Someone left a note in my favorite's diary, in response to this entry, saying that he was an 18 year old virgin because of choice. So many other note-leavers said things like "Wow! That takes serious will power to stay a virgin till your eighteen." Has it ever crossed people's minds that some people are virgins not totally due to will power, but because of lack of options?
I would love to know how all these young teens started having sex so early. I always seem to be a few years behind than what I am. I mean, most girls starting in with tweezing and make-up in sixth grade while I didn't start with that stuff until eighth and ninth. I still am pretty shy around guys, while a ton of girls made boyfriends in college. This one girl who used to live across the hall from me, named Alison, used to talk to me sometimes. Within the first four weeks of school, she had three one-night stands. How the hell do girls move so fast?? In four weeks I had just started making friends with Dionne, Justin, Erin, and Helen.
I had this crush on my lab partner, Adam. I would send him funny e-mails, IM him, etc. He came to my room once to copy a lab. He didn't have to be there; I could've scanned it and sent it to him. He doesn't reply to e-mails, or if he does its brief. He IMed me this summer only to ask what my chem lab grade was. I think I am seriously mentally challenged in the boy department. I'm doing somethng wrong. I mean, he is in my room, sitting at my computer next to my bed, I'm somewhat hitting on him, and he just made small talk. I mean, I can't even make friends with boys.
He's online right now (I don't know why he's still on my buddy list) but I don't feel like IMing him any more.
I was in a good mood today basically. I didn't have to get up until 11 am (which in my house is a treat). I got in minor trouble for getting a little bit of hair dye on the hallway carpet, but my mom was much more laid-back about it than normal. We went for a Father's Day dinner at this steakhouse, where we had to wait an hour and a half, but it was fun anyway. I got on-line and got into a bad mood. I think its because at home, I'm always pretty much made to feel comfortable. I can be myself. At school, I have to act a certain way. I HAVE to go out on the weekend because everyone else does and you'll be thought of as a nerd if you stay in by yourself to watch a movie. I have to be cheery all the time because, hell, this is college, and its supposed to be a ton of fun. ::snorts: Not for shy people like me anyway...I just can't seem to fit in, and I'm reminded of that even more when I'm around people of my own age.
Its why I like little kids so much. They're just cool people. You can be a one-eyed purple person with green hair, but if you're nice, little kids will play with you. I volunteer at the children's psychiatry ward in a nearby hospital over this summer and I absolutely love it. I guess I should feel right at home in the psych ward, given some of my personality traits... Seriously though, even though I'm not exactly changing the course of their lives, I feel like I'm being productive. And I don't have to pretend in front of anyone. Its nice. Anyway...I have no clue what brought all of this on. It's 1:13 am and I'm just being odd I guess.
Phobia of the Day: Maniaphobia- Fear of insanity
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