Not having sex? You’re not the only one
About 35 percent of 11th graders surveyed last spring by the Minnesota Department of Education had had sex before.
Compared to that state-wide average, in the EPHS junior class, 21 percent of males and 14 percent of females have had sex.
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These numbers have stayed constant in the past six years, though other numbers relating to relationships have changed.
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Relationship violence, verbal and physical, has decreased since 2013 for every surveyed group at EPHS except for 11th grade females. For this demographic, there has been a slight increase in the number of females who have encountered verbal or physical violence in a relationship.
With heterosexual sex, the biggest concern is often pregnancy. Condom use has significantly improved at EPHS since 2013. In the 2013 survey, 62 percent of female 9th graders who have had sex reported not using a condom the last time. In 2019, that number was 0 percent.
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More troublesome data comes from responses from female 11th graders to the same question, whose trend was the inverse of 9th grade girls. The percentage of 11th grade girls who did not use a condom the last time they had sex doubled from 2013 to 2019.
Overall, trends in sex and relationships have neither increased nor decreased drastically.
Although it may
seem like everyone around you is having sex, that simply is not the case.
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