The United States has the dubious distinction of leading the industrialized world in overall
rates of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), with 12 million new cases annually. About 3 …

Objective Knowledge of sexual behavior in the United States is necessary for 1) directing
risk-reduction interventions aimed at preventing transmission of human immunodeficiency …

Surveys of risk behaviors have been hobbled by their reliance on respondents to report
accurately about engaging in behaviors that are highly sensitive and may be illegal. An …

Context: Since the 1980s, the age at which US teenagers, especially minority youth, begin
having sex has decreased. There is limited information on the relationship between early …

Background African American adolescents living in high-poverty urban settings are at
increased risk for early sexual initiation and sexually transmitted diseases. Objective To …

This paper investigates the degree to which the local prevalence of AIDS increases the
demand for disease-preventing methods of contraception among young adults. Using data …

For the past several decades, the teenage birth rate in the United States has exceeded that
of other industrialized nations. To explore the factors behind this high birth rate, this volume …

According to data from the 1991 National Survey of Adolescent Males, condom use is likely
to be highest at the beginning of relationships and to decline as the relationship continues …

Data on substance use and sexual activity from a nationally representative, probability-
based sample of young adults aged 18-30 in 1990 indicate that 86% of respondents had …

OBJECTIVE: To examine the context of pregnancy and sexual health among adolescent
females with a history of intimate partner violence (IPV). This paper reports on a subset of …