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PSST – ASK YOUR KID ABOUT S-E-X

Is your teenager a virgin? That depends on your teen’s definition of “is” – as well as a few other words that parents might want to run past their kids.

A study suggests 70 percent of kids 12 to 16 believe they’re virgins even if they’ve had oral sex – and 16 percent believe anal sex doesn’t count either.

Researchers at the PIRE Prevention Research Center in Berkeley, Calif., interviewed more than 900 middle- and high-school students. The study is in The Journal of Adolescent Health.