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To: Scumbria who wrote (139017)	4/18/2001 4:38:02 AM
From: Sam P.	Respond to of 769668

Scumbria, An oldie but goodie.http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010417/hl/students_sex_1.htmlFewer UK Than U.S. Students Define Oral Sex As Sex NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Recent surveys showing that most US teens exclude oral sex from their definition of ``having sex'' sent educators and parents scrambling for an explanation. Now, a new study reports that even fewer students in the UK believe that oral sex constitutes having sex. According to the report in an upcoming issue of Archives of Sexual Behavior, about one third of UK college students in a survey included oral sex in their definition of sex, compared with about 40% of US students. US data are based on separate reports cited in the UK study. In other findings, UK men were more likely than UK women to agree that oral and manual contact with genitals was sex. Nearly 23% of men believed they were having sex when someone touched their genitals, compared with nearly 16% of women. ``The greater male inclusion of manual contact with genitalia may...reflect male-typical incorporation of more sex-related items or, more obviously, the greater incidence of manual masturbation in men as compared to women,'' Drs. Marian Pitts and Qazi Rahman, who conducted their study at Staffordshire University in the UK, explain. Students younger than 24 were less likely to characterize oral or manual touching of genitals as having sex. This finding, write the authors, ``suggests that definitions of sex are changing, and that younger respondents include fewer kinds of sexual behavior'' in their definition of having sex. The results are based on data from more than 300 UK university students. SOURCE: Archives of Sexual Behavior