Either the teens are lying, or the city's rather disturbing weeping toddler ads have actually worked: The number of sexually active high school students has dropped to historic lows, a survey conducted by the federal Centers for Disease Control found.
The the Post poked around the survey and reports that the number of teens engaging in fumbling, back-of-the-cab coitus fell from 37.8 percent in 2011 to 31.2 percent in 2013—the lowest since the CDC introduced the biannual survey in 1997. That breaks down to just one in five teens who have struggled to remove each other's jeggings in the dark of a campus maintenance closet.
The drop was roughly equal for both genders, with the percentage of sex-having boys falling from 43.9 in 2011 to 36.3 in 2013, and 32.1 percent to 26.2 percent for girls.
“This is a welcome move in the right direction. Teens who wait to engage in sexual activity are far likelier to succeed in school,” Greg Pfundstein, president of the right-wing Chiaroscuro Foundation, told the tabloid. “This trend comes on top of other city data showing the abortion rate steadily declining. We are seeing a positive cycle of change, and that should give us all hope.”
