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A Different Kind of Sex Talk With Teens
By LISA BELKIN

The age at which Europeans and Americans first have sex is the same — 17, on average, on both sides of the Atlantic. The percentage who use birth control from the start? In Holland it’s 64 percent and in the United States it’s 26 percent. The percentage who have regrets about their first time, wishing they had waited: 63 percent of boys and 69 percent of girls in the United States, and only 5 percent of boys and 12 percent of girls in the Netherlands. Teen pregnancy rates: three to six times higher here than in Western Europe. S.T.D. rates: 20 to 30 times higher here than Holland. H.I.V. rate? Theirs is six times lower. More

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[musicmutt.livejournal.com]

It is also my understanding they don't have anywhere near the problems with pedophiles, stalkers and sexual predators in areas like the Netherlands and Sweden where sexuality is freely expressed as opposed to this side of the pond where we are comparatively prudish.