Page 11 - Sex Facts

The 10 most shocking facts on Teen Pregnancy

We've partnered with our friends at the Candie's Foundation to bring some awareness to teen pregnancy. Here are the top 10 most shocking facts about Teen pregnancy:  

• In the United States, there are nearly 750,000 teen pregnancies each year, that's about 2000 a day! This means that about 30% of girls get pregnant at least once. 
• That 30% is heavily skewed towards minorities. It's estimated that about HALF of Latina and African American teenagers will be pregnant at least once before they're 20.
• Teen girls have a hard time supporting their babies. Raising a baby can cost up to $10,000 in the first year ALONE. 
• About 80% of teen fathers don't marry the mom. They also contribute very little to raising the baby. On average, teen dads pay less than $800 a YEAR on child support. 
• That 80% number can mean trouble. It's estimated that children who live apart from their dads are 5 times MORE likely to be poor than if they live with both parents. 
• Teen pregnancy greatly affects education. Only 51% of teen moms have a high school diploma. The number for those who didn't have a teen birth is closer to 89%.
• Parenthood is the leading cause for teen girls dropping out of school.
• Teen moms are extremely UNLIKELY to go to college. Only about 2% of young teen moms ever get a higher education degree. 
• Having a baby in your teens can also affect the baby: The daughters of teen moms are 3 times more likely to become teen moms themselves. 
• Sons are also affected. The sons of teen moms are twice as likely to become incarcerated. 

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The world’s first sex store was started in Germany by a female ex-pilot shortly after the Second World War!

Beate Uhse AG is the most successful company in the German sex industry, and the country’s most trusted pornography retailer. It was created by former German pilot Beate Uhse-Rotermund in 1946. Originally, it was a distributer of pamphlets on family planning called Schrift X (in English: Writing X or Paper X), which were very successful. 

In 1962, the company opened the doors to the world’s first sex shop in Flensburg, West Germany. The Beate Uhse Store enjoyed immediate success due to its respected brand name. By 1992, the company owned 30 of these sex shops and 25 “adult cinemas.” It now employs over 1500 employees and is active in 60 countries. Uhse remained the chairwoman of the company until her death in 2001. 

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It is legal to have sex in Amsterdam’s Vondelpark!

So, the new rules in Amsterdam concerning Vondelpark are as following. It is totally ok to have sex in the park as long as it is in the evening or night time. Also, you have to pick up your condoms. I mean, that is just a common courtesy. 

The Dutch police are in full support of the new rules and are actually encouraging other parks to follow suit. At first, it was said that gay sex was permissible, but was later changed to public sex. So, now it is permissible for any sex to take place in Vondelpark. 

Hordes of people come each summer including families, skaters, and joggers. Apparently, gay sex was mentioned, because Vondelpark is in the middle of the city, and it had become famous for gay men coming and looking for uncomplicated sexual encounters there. 

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Women who live closer to the equator tend to have more baby girls!

It sounds a little bit like one of those old wives' tales that says you can influence the sex of the baby by following certain steps. However, this is science. It's been found that women closer to the tropics have a slightly higher, but statistically significant, rate of baby girls than boys.

Scientists believe the natural sex ratio is about 106 boys to every 100 girls, or a ratio of about 51.5% in favor of males. However, some researchers think that masks some geographical trends. They've found, for example, that in tropical Central African Republic, sex ratio was 49% male, while in Chinca, it was 53% male.  

However, don't think that just trying to conceive a baby in the tropics will give you a girl instead of a boy. Scientists aren't sure why this trend happens, but they're pretty sure it has a lot to do with more than just the environment you're in when the baby is conceived. For more info, check the source!

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