The only safe sex is no sex, most doctors say. But certain precautions and safe behaviors can reduce a person’s risk of contracting a sexually transmitted infection.
The teen years bring a focus on social interactions and friendships. This includes same-gender friends, same-gender groups of friends, and cross-gender groups of friends. In addition, sexual maturity triggers teens’ interest in dating and sexual relationships.
Girls experience puberty as a sequence of events, and their pubertal changes usually begin before boys of the same age. The first pubertal change in girls usually is breast development.