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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The county survey has your answer, OP.

I swear, do any of you read your email from the county?? They mention this at least once every year!

https://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/data/sites/data/file...airfax%208th-12th%20report.pdf

https://www.fcps.edu/sites/default/files/media/forms/SSAW-FFX-Youth-Survey-8-10-12.pdf

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Yeah I hate to tell you this but gen X definitions of virginity and what not are less and less relevant as time goes on. It's literally only based on hetero sex and pretty steeped in gender norms and patriarchal notions.  2 gay married women are certainly "having sex" and are not virgins, right? Logic follows.

I believe every school has Family Life Education: https://www.fcps.edu/academics/academic-overview/family-life-education-fle

[b]Sexual Activity[/b]

Yes. Those numbe

 Approximately one in six Fairfax County students (17.4%) reported having had sexual intercourse
in their lifetime, ranging from 5.0% of eighth-grade students to 33.5% of twelfth-grade students.
Male students were more likely to report having had sexual intercourse in their lifetime [/quote]

Yes those numbers seem about right to me.

5% of 8th graders sounds right to me. [/quote][/quote]

Maybe so.  But I bet that figure is way low for girls experimenting with other girls.

First off, girls are shy and won’t answer truthfully.

Second, they think they are just fooling around sexually.  And that’s true.  It’s not like two 8th grade girls are actually having sex with each other when they explore.[/quote][/quote]

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