Until Skins , every teen party on TV seemed to end in an overdose, every sexual encounter some kind of STI — but here we got to see young, unknown actors many of whom went on to be Hollywood stars revelling in the delights of adolescence, showing that teenage identity exploration and drug use are often just quite a lot of fun. If Skins showed what party-loving sixth-formers got up to, then The Inbetweeners panned across to the neeks in the corner of the common room. It may have pushed things too far with this effort, which ran for two series in , and specifically focused on adolescent rutting. There were pieces on BDSM, Andalusian shagging holidays and vajazzling — but a letter signed by 23 health and education professionals condemned Channel 4 for giving poor advice.

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T urns out young people have finally realized that both males and females, desire, and care about sex. Even though teenage boys consume more pornography and think about it more often, a new study that interviewed Swedish year-olds discovered that teen boys and girls fantasize about the same things. Not only that, but teenage girls are more interested in pornography than conventional thinking leads us to believe. Based on the findings, there are no differences between the number of teen males and females who say their sexual behavior is influenced by pornography in a big way which, might not be a good thing. Unsurprisingly the teens that do watch pornography have more favorable attitudes towards it in general. And, the females in the study were more experienced than the boys in oral, anal, and vaginal sex. However, the genders were equally likely to partake in one-night-stands, group sex and buddy-sex. But despite that, the teens in the study who were sexually active did hold the perception that males and females are equally interested in sex.
Pornography is not new, but the internet has made it so accessible that it's become the main sex educator for many teenagers. Research shows that nine out of 10 boys aged years, and 60 per cent of girls in the same age bracket, have seen online porn, according to the University of Canberra. What young people are seeing in porn is shaping their sexual imaginations, expectations and practices, she says.