# What are boys told about dating/girls/sex? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 4, 2009, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-boys-told-about-dating-girls-sex/484399 "2009-02-04T11:06:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 50
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2009, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-boys-told-about-dating-girls-sex/484399/50 "2009-02-05T15:58:51Z")
On second thought, since we’re discussing teens, these numbers are probably better. [This chart](http://www.contraceptivetechnology.org/table.html) shows typical and perfect use failure rates for people using that method for their first year. As expected, the typical use failure rates are higher, possibly because people new to a method make more mistakes (or people new to sex aren’t as conscientious about using contraception every time and are present in these stats at a higher rate than the gen pop.) Among this population, condom rate is at 15 and withdrawal at 27. Nothing at all is still at 85, but I question how that number was arrived at; it’s the same theoretical number as general charts, and I would not be surprised if it should be higher for teens. Fertile little buggers. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-boys-told-about-dating-girls-sex/484399)._