Sex, Teens | featured news

Disgraced gridiron great Lawrence Taylor admitted paying for sex at a suburban Holiday Inn where police say he raped a 16-year-old runaway, federal prosecutors said Friday in a criminal complaint against the girl's alleged pimp....

HOLLYWOODLIFE.COM'S BONNIE FULLER TAKES ON MILEY'S NEW VIDEO: Miley, Billy Ray and Tish Cyrus -- aren't Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan enough of a warning to you -- why are you OVER-SEXUALIZING a 17-year-old! Hey Miley, you may be ready to kiss Hannah Montana good-bye, but just because you don't want to be a role model or do music for much longer, doesn't mean you should be 17 going on 27.

An Oregon jury finds the Boy Scouts of America negligent in a case of repeated sexual abuse by an assistant Scoutmaster in the 1980s and awards the plaintiff $1.4 million.

<

Rate at which teenage girls in U.S. are having babies has dropped, government statistics show.

A police investigation continued Thursday into a Catholic abuse scandal in Brazil, which erupted last week when a network aired a video that it said showed a priest having sex with a 19-year-old altar boy.

A Londonderry high school teacher repeatedly offered to perform a sex act on one of her students and also e-mailed nude photographs of herself that ended up circulating among students at the New Hampshire school, according to police.

An abstinence-only education program is more effective than other initiatives at keeping sixth- and seventh-graders from having sex within a two-year period, according to a study described by some as a landmark.

More than a quarter of young people have been involved in sexting in some form, an Associated Press-MTV poll found.

Evangelist Tony Alamo used his stature as a self-proclaimed prophet to force underage girls into sham marriages with him, controlling his followers with their fears of eternal suffering....

Filmmaker Roman Polanski has been arrested on an arrest warrant stemming from a decades-old sex charge, Swiss police said today. The Academy Award-winning director pleaded guilty in 1977 to a single count of having unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor, acknowledging he had sex with a 13-year-old girl, but fled the United States before he could be sentenced.