The National Campaign To Prevent Teen Pregnancy's With One Voice 2004, America's Adults and Teens Sound Off About Teen Pregnancy, by Bill Albert, December, 2004:
Sex can wait. Nearly seven in ten teens do not think it's okay for high school teens to have sexual intercourse (this includes 59% of older teens aged 15-19).
Most sexually experienced teens wish they had waited longer. Two-thirds of all sexually experienced teens (63% of boys and 69% of girls) said they wish they had waited longer to have sex.
The magic number is zero. When asked about an appropriate number of sexual partners for teens to have, the clear majority of adolescents surveyed (56%) said "none".
Relationships and sex. Fully 85% of teens surveyed said that sex should only occur in a long-term, committed relationship. Support for this position was consistent across the board - boys (83%), girls (88%) teens aged 15-19 (83%), and teens aged 12-14 (89%) all agreed that sex should only happen within long-term relationships.
