George Mason University did a study of teenagers and unwanted pregnancy among heterosexuals and homosexuals. Ana Kasparian (The Point), Karomo Brown, and Becca Frucht hosts of The Young Turks discuss.
“Gay and bisexual teens are twice as likely to get pregnant than their heterosexual peers, says a shocking new study of New York City teens.
Lisa Lindley of George Mason University and Katrina Walsemann of the University of South Carolina studied 10,000 New York City teens via three years’ worth of surveys from the Centers for Disease Control.
The CDC measured sexual orientation in two different ways: how people label their sexuality, and how they behave sexually. So a person may not identify as bisexual on paper but may have had male and female sexual partners. That could be because that person was forced into sex or isn’t ready to come out yet, for example.
Those adolescents may also think they’re at a low risk of getting pregnant or impregnating someone since a partner of the opposite sex isn’t who they normally opt for.”
Read more here: http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/gay-bisexual-teens-pregnant-study-article-1.2226423
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