The sex lives of teenagers are showing worrying trends. These teens say misinformation is playing a part

At the Flemingdon Health Centre, a 17-year-old boy paces and speaks nervously into his phone.

“Yo bro. Yeah, I’m at the sexual health clinic. I was just thinking it’s a good time to get tested, after … yeah, that,” he stammers.

A receptionist approaches and asks his name — to tag him in a photo she’s posting on social media — before launching an interrogation: Aren’t you a little young to be having sex? Are you one of those guys who sleeps with a girl and doesn’t call her back? And perhaps most worryingly: What are your parents’ names and phone numbers so we can tell them you might have a sexually transmitted infection?

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