Brissenden (Neve Brissenden) and Spencer (Clemency Spencer) said their sex education had never discussed "sex text messages" until students were caught sending explicit sex messages. (picture of Sydney Herald Morning Herald)
According to the Sydney Morning Herald, teenagers send fewer sex messages than they did five years ago, and most of them are sent between couples.
A study of more than 6300 Australian students by (La Trobe University) at La Pobo University found that nearly 1 / 3 students had sent "porn text messages". 1 / 2 students have received explicit porn text messages, and nearly 1 / 3 students have sent explicit or almost bare photo.
The survey found that students sent sex messages to their girlfriend(44%)or boyfriend(60.4%), rather than to those who are not familiar.
The same survey in 2013 found that more than 70% of sexually active grades 10-12 students sent explicit text messages and 84% received such text messages.
The researchers said that the decline in percentages is due to the strengthening of sexual SMS risk education.
Fischer (Christopher Fisher), lead researcher and associate professor, said: "over the past five years, there has been more and more media coverage of this issue, and schools have paid more and more attention to this education. We see from other works that young people have learned how to browse in cyberspace. So they are more aware of the consequences of this because they see the news and hear the story."
The national survey also shows that more young people may have had sex earlier, with 34%of the 10th-grade students saying they have had sex Behavior, compared with 27%in the 2013 survey.
The sixth National Survey of Australian Middle School students and sexual Health, (National Survey of Australian Secondary Students and Sexual Health), also found that 75 percent of 15-18-year-olds had sexual behavior, including oral sex, kissing or touching their genitals to some extent, up from nearly 70 percent in the 2013 survey.
More than a third of the students said they were attracted by same-sex or multigender.
The researchers warned against comparing the results of the two studies. In the 2013 survey, only 2100 Australian students from government, Catholic and private schools were surveyed, compared with more than 6300 students from all over the country in the most recent survey.
Social media is widely used and frequently used: almost all 10th, 11th and 12th graders (97 per cent) use social media such as Facebook (fb), Twitter (Twitter) or Instagram every day. Students in 1 / 3 said they used these sites for sexual purposes.
But personally, Australian teenagers are cautious about their sex lives.
Nearly 76%of sexually active students occur at home. Nearly 62%said they had only one sex partner in the past year.
``Overall, I think Australian children are doing well in terms of sexual and sexual health. The last time most children's sex happens at home or in a partner's house, which suggests that they think it's comfortable to do something where they feel safe, '' (Zheng Peiyan).