Call it “Sex and the City — Teenage Edition.”
A new survey of the city’s sexually active high-school kids reveals nearly one in 10 has slept with someone of the same sex.
And those who go to bed with partners of both sexes report higher-than-average rates of dating violence, forced sex and risky sexual behavior.
The report, published today in the journal Pediatrics, is based on surveys conducted in city high schools in 2005 and 2007.
It’s not surprising that the youths who reported sex with both males and females also had higher rates of risky behavior and violence, said the city’s assistant health commissioner, Dr. Susan Blank.
“It has been shown in the literature that students who have both male and female partners have a lot of adverse health problems,” she said.
The survey found:
* 7,261 of the students who answered the questionnaire said they had had sexual intercourse.
* 93.1 percent of the sexually active males said they had had sex only with females, 3.2 percent said they had slept only with other males, and 3.7 percent said they had had partners of both sexes.
* Among the sexually active females, 88.1 percent said they had had sex only with males, 3.2 percent said they had had only female partners, and 8.7 percent said they had had partners of both sexes.
* Of all the sexually active teens, 9.3 percent reported at least one same-sex partner.
Of the girls with both male and female partners, 35.8 percent said they had experienced dating violence in the previous year.
Of the boys with both male and female partners, 34.8 percent reported it.
Far lower percentages of teens with only male or only female partners reported dating violence.
Of the males who reported having partners of both sexes, 44.1 percent said they used a condom in their last encounter.
The percentages for condom use for males reporting partners of only the opposite sex was 79.8 and 62.3 for males who slept only with other males.