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Guess what? We're sexual beings. And males, especially young boys, are aroused visually more than any other way. Mix modern media technology with a teenage boy's wildly squirting glands and what do you think is going to happen? The apparent desire of parents, schools and researchers that young teenage boys and girls be sexually inert is stupefying. Why is it that once people grow all the way up they become completely detached from their own youth and view what kids do (and exactly what they themselves did only a few years ago) with such a contrived sense of surprise, outrage and concern? Who's kidding whom?
There is little need for research here-anyone who was ever young and eventually matured to adulthood knows exactly what's going on. The teenage boys are masturbating around twice a day, yeah, often with their friends and cousins. Pornography has been 'casualized' - the boys don't have to hide Playboy's under their beds anymore - aftter they get off they only have to clear cookies and history on the computer and their secrets are safe from the snooping eyes of parents. Sex is now defined solely as vaginal intercourse. Everything short of that (what used to be called making out, heavy petting or necking) is just recreational, including, thanks to Clinton, oral sex. Male homosexual experimentation is now as it always was - rampant. It's just more open and accepted. So is teenage girl bisexuallity. So are 3-ways and groups. By high school graduation, most everybody who's wanted to has gotten laid. And everything else.
Starting to remember now? DUH. The real reason for al this 'study' of teenage sexuallity is that we never forget, or want to, our teenage sexual experiences. Adolescent sex is special in that it combines all the biology of adult sex with the deliciousness of being new, forbidden and top-secret. Yeah, it's irresistibly nasty and exciting as only adolescent sex can be. If two adults meet and end up in the sack, it's just that and so what. But to a teenager, it is a crossing over, a genuine evolution of oneself into a higher level of being. Often it's also an emotional roller-coaster. Growing up by leaps and bounds. Gotta love it. And that importance continues until it dawns on you that sex is simply what consenting and mutually attracted adults do. Unfortunately, often whether they're married or not. But that's another 'study.'
As adults, like it or not, consciously or subconsciously, we have an uncontrollable prurient interest in adolescent sexual behavioir. Not to get data, but to get justification for our own pasts. If, as a youth, you had the misfortune to attach guilt or fear to your 'nekkid' playtimes, adult scholarly study tends to defray that. What turns out to be OK for all is OK for you. And one more thing, no matter how old you are, you always want to study kids to find out if, back then, you really got your share, and if today's kids are getting more than you did, to sound the alarm that something must be done. Leave the kids alone, allow them their privacy. When you were a kid, you certainly didn't want some lecherous adult inquiring into your sexual thoughts and behaviors, asking questions, and making judgements. It's enough to teach them biology, but leave the rest to the streets, the gutters and the camp-outs, where it belongs. Get a life.