The media is just one of the factors responsible for the increase in teen
sexuality. Throughout a humans adolescents years they are subject to a
number of sexual pressures. Through research I have found that peers are
among the most influential. An adolescent is not limited to peer pressure
though. They face pressures from the media as well. I believe that media
pressure is just a influential as peer pressure. There is also other pressure,
from people such as older friends, parents, and just adults in general.
Peers is a term that can be defined as friends. I have found that
many teens have friends that are athletes. In high schools, boy athletes
outscore all of the other boys with the girls(Elias 1). On the other hand ,
girls on sports teams are much less sexually active than other females who
do not play sports(Elias 1). This shows that male athletes are far more
pressuring each other on the issue of sexuality. So for males who are
into sports they are subjected to a host of pressures and can as a result do
things they would not normally do. On the contrary, I found that females
who do sports are far less pressured and influenced about sex. In fact they
are far less likely to be sexually active than teen females who do not
I believe that all teens in general should know the results of being
a sexually active teen. There are many consequences of being sexually
active, one of the major one being sexually transmitted diseases. A sexually
transmitted disease might not sound so bad but, some can cause sterility
and even worse , death. Even when condoms are used, a STD can still be transmitted.
Depending on the type of std they can or can not be cured. A few
diseases that can not be cured include herpes, HPV, And HIV, which later
turns into the virus AIDS. "The disease HPV can cause cervical cancer and
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