While the media bombards us with alarming statistics about the number of teenagers having sex, few reports shed light on what might encourage teens to become sexually active in the first place. Three studies offer some insight into sexually active teens: environment, age of partner and perceived family support may affect young people's decisions to have sex. Join discussion...

It's true: AIDS is nature's awful retribution for our tolerance of immoderate and socially irresponsible sexual behavior. The epidemic is the price of our permissive attitudes toward monogamy, chastity, and other forms of extreme sexual conservatism. You've read elsewhere about the sin of promiscuity. Let me tell you about the sin of self-restraint. Consider Martin, a charming and generally prudent young man with a limited sexual history, who has been gently flirting with his coworker Joan. As Join discussion...

TEENAGE indigenous girls are prostituting themselves to white men for beer and cigarettes in the middle of Darwin. Former ATSIC regional council leader Kimberley Hunter said the scenes he has witnessed at night on Parap Rd, Parap, disgusted him and proved sexual abuse is not only performed by Aboriginal men. "Cars drive up and down and prey on these women continuously," he said. "We have non-indigenous men that prey on indigenous women." Mr Hunter said federal and NT politicians knew what wa Join discussion...

How does America rank sexually? Not high according to a global sex survey conducted by Durex condoms. In a country that's practically made porn a national pastime, and where releasing a highly embarrassing, "stolen" sex tape is the key to fame and fortune, we come in a dismal 23 out of 26 countries - beating out only Japan, Hong Kong and Nigeria. (And isn't sex illegal in Hong Kong?) On average we have sex just 85 times per year, way lower than the global average of 103 times. And when we do, Join discussion...