Some actually said that getting an STD via anal sex was impossible, or less likely than for vaginal intercourse, according to the study. The researchers found that many interviewed teenagers didn't know it is possible to get a sexually transmitted disease (STD) from unprotected anal sex. Teens don't know they can get STDs from unprotected anal sex The researchers said describing events as "slips" may enable men and women to avoid confronting the possibility that a non-consensual penetration was deliberate. "It is difficult to assess the extent to which events described as 'slips' were genuinely unintentional," the researchers said. In some cases, teens reported that anal penetration happened accidentally, because they "slipped." But in one case, a male teenager corrected himself in a second interview, and said that what he had initially referred to as an accident was in fact no accident after all. However, the researchers noted that some young men in the study did say they avoided anal sex because they believed it might hurt their partners. "It seemed that men were expected to persuade or coerce reluctant partners," the researchers said. The researchers wrote that it seemed women commonly saw their role as accepting or declining their partner's request for anal sex, rather than being an equal decision-maker about this sexual activity. The researchers found that the teenagers thought women would generally be reluctant to have anal sex, and would participate only if persuaded, or even coerced into it, and that the act might hurt them. Although she said she was persuaded by her partner to engage in anal sex, she also told the researcher that she was curious about trying it, and had enjoyed her experience. Only one young woman in the study stated slightly positive feelings about having had anal sex. For example, one interviewee said: "I thought it was going to be a lot better to be honest." Young men in the study were often keen on the idea of anal sex, but were sometimes unenthusiastic about the physical reality, the researchers said. In a group discussion as part of the study, young men said anal sex was something they do for competition.īut both men and women said anal sex could damage women's reputations. Even though not all the young men in the study said they wanted to have anal sex, many of them said men encourage one another to try the practice. Young men in the study appeared to perceive having anal sex as a feat in competition. Men compete with each other to have anal sex However, the findings may not be generalizable to all populations, because they are based on a small study of heterosexual teenagers. The results also revealed somewhat surprising, and in some cases concerning, aspects of anal sex. Young women in the study reported anal sex as painful, but at the same time, the majority of teens saw women's experience of pain as due to women being "naïve or flawed," and unable to relax, the researchers said in their findings published today today (Aug.
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