Recent studies of young Americans 15-30 years old show that for nearly 60% among them, fellatio and cunnilingus "are not sex" and are the first practiced sex acts because those acts are "nonreprehensible". Oral sex does not make a girl a "woman of easy virtue" or, a young man a "ladykiller unworthy of confidence". Oral sex allows an American youth raised in fear of disease, religion and "right" morals, to find a substitute to sex which can be expressed before marriage with a clear conscience.