Sex, Drugs and Violence: What Are Teen Girls REALLY Doing?

Find out the shocking truths that thousands of teens girls revealed to the Tyra Show!

This summer, when the Tyra Show posted a survey on sex, drugs and violence, more than 10,000 teen girls and young women were shockingly honest about what is really happening in their lives. And what they said will blow you away. What did the Young Women in Crisis survey results show?

More girls than ever are kissing other girls, becoming sexually active and actually trying to become teen mothers! What's the result of all that risky business? The survey found that the average girl loses her virginity at 15 -- and more than half of the teens having sex are doing so without protection! Many of them are even having sex at school. All that activity might explain why one in three girls said they were afraid they have an STD!

That's not all: The young women told us that they're becoming more violent too. In fact, about half of the girls in the survey said they had hit someone!

Want to hear more about what the exclusive survey revealed? Don't miss Friday's show, where you'll meet the real girls who took the survey. You can't miss the jaw-dropping answers they have to share! If you can't wait until then to hear about the survey, tomorrow Tyra will be appearing on "The Today Show" at 8:05 am ET and on "Good Day New York" at 7:40 am ET. Check your local listings to make sure you don't miss it!

Are you moved by the results of this survey? Check out The National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy to find out what you can do to help.

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Posted by Uwgqpqbf 07/14/09 1:04 AM

Helo Tyra, i was reading some of the other girls' stories, and it inspired me to write my own. I am 14 years of age on the verge of 15 and i will be entering my freshman year of high school in August. I am still a virgin, and proud of it, and i do believe in abstinence. but lately, in the past year or so, ive been thinking about loosing my virginity, i hav been "in the moment" before, and i have been asked the famous "will you" question, and as you can see i said no. but somewhere inside me i kind of want to. i dont hav an open relationship with neither of my parents, so i have no one to tlk to about this. However i do know that i can wait, but i kindof dont want too, and have no idea how much longer i will! atleast until 16 or 17! i guess its just those raging hormones!

Posted by anonymous 07/14/09 12:11 AM

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Posted by Iaxjqnil 07/13/09 11:43 PM

Hey tyra ! i am 16 years old and about to be a junior in high school . and i have a beautiful 9 month old child who is my everything and i wouldn't trade her anything in the world ! ! my baby's father isn't in my daughters life . . .which is very common for a teenage mom . i lost my virginity at the age of 15 also . . it was very hard for me to have sex with my boyfriend at the time because i knew it was a bad thing and i knew i was taking a huge risk because we didn't use protection at the time . but like most teenage guys they will get in your mind and influence you to have sex with them . and that decision has made a huge impact on my life now . i wish that i could talk to girls my age about how my life has changed dramatically now that i got a baby . and let them know what guys will say and do just to get in your pants . and i definitely do not want to see anymore girls my age end up struggling like i am now . but thanks for your time tyra . Sincerely, Drea

Posted by Drea 07/13/09 5:28 PM

Hi Tyra, I'm a 14 year old young black female and the following school year, I'll be entering my second year in an all-girls high school. Fortunately, I'm not one of those teens that feeds into peer pressure easily, I know my standards and morals. But, I certainly have changed due to my high school enviroment. I know that I have been experiencing sexual fantasies, and I have been discussing sex, more than I ever have in my entire lifetime. Even though I know that sex won't arrive in my life anytime before college, I still have many conversations revolving around sexual concepts. Yes, these sexual concepts do involve phone sex. After I have phone sex with my friend, I'm not sure about him, but I feel immoral. I try to stop, but I just continue, because in a way I feel like thats the only way to relieve my raging hormones. Even though I have a decent, open relationship with both of my parents, whereas I can talk to them about sex, I don't think that I can ever tell them about me having phone sex. I was always that type of kid that believed in abstience, and thought all sexual things were weird. But, now being a high school student, I think I found my inner-self, and that I am generally a person who is open with her sexuality. No, I don't mean that I tell the whole world about my business (never that), its just that I'm comfortable with being a female, with female parts.

Posted by Ashley 07/13/09 3:43 PM

Hey Tyra. I'm fourteen and entering my freshman year of highschool. I'm on summer vacation right now but just a few months ago I was in school. During school me and my friends had a lot of guy friends in highschool who were into taking xanax and xanax bars. So one of my friends got four xanax bars and we were in class and each took two. We were superrrr messed up. I missed the whole last month of that class when we always took the zanies, and i almost completely failed my final because of it. We were both addicted to xanex and she started taking other pills like percocets, too. Pills are extremely popular at my school and I think the only reason I took them was that it was so easily accessable to get them. We never got caught in school or anything, but we in that class we were constantly getting in trouble and getting yelled at. Before then we were usually getting pretty okay grades and didnt get yelled at all too much. When I took them I didnt feel too much so I would take more. Then after the high wore off I felt real sick the rest of the day. My words would slur and I would walk really wierd. I never noticed it but all my friends tell me after my high wares off. Since school ended my addiction isnt as bad, if I can get pills I take them, but since im not in school till august, I cant really get them. Im very worried about when I get back to school on if I will be able to handle the pressure.

Posted by Nikki 07/13/09 8:03 AM

hey tyra i mean to me sex is horrible imean dis guy i kno is very nice or watev nd we were really close nd i lostmi virginity to hm well he took it from me i was raped by a 15 yr old nd im 13 so to me it is nd violence is to nd girl violence is da worst drugs r to but dats ur choice u dnt hve to nd i will neva even if mi life depends onit so theres mi opinion nd i hvent tld mi mom bout dis nd nor mi mom hw should tyra help me plz

Posted by shantel 07/10/09 8:08 PM

I feel like teen girls today are far too focused on when gossip girl is coming on, finding new pics of robert pattinson online, and texting that they get caught up in all these negative aspects of life and dont take the time to focus on school, becoming a well rounded woman, or social issues. You may have more teens concerned with issues like equal rights for the gay community but they know nothing about the environment, our nations history or future, or even health issues that face women.

Posted by Natalie 07/10/09 7:49 PM

hi tyra im 13 year old girl and when i was 12 i did drugs an my mom cout me an know she dosent trust me. how should i get her trust back.now that i look back i say im stupid. o one more thing my whole family dosent trust me help me pleas love lupita...

Posted by lupita 07/10/09 12:17 PM

Tyra im 15 years old, and i think you should have a show on gay teens. I feel as if this is somewhat being over looked and everyone is just worried about that stupid PROP. As our world evolves there a more and more LGBT in the this place we call USA...i mean thats why people want to come to the US. you can basically do whatever you want as long as you pay your taxes..lol but seriously the gay teens need to be recognize and need to be properly represented, because lindsey lohan is just makeing a bad name for us... well i hope u can get back to me! PEACE AND LOVE KEEP IT FUNKY

Posted by Jalesa Beaver 07/10/09 12:01 PM

Hey Tyra! First and foremost I want to let you know that you and your show are AWESOME!:)...but anywho im 17 years old(going on 18 in a few months yay!) have had a bf for about 10 months and I still have my V-card. these days it seems like a goal for girls to make it past 16.thats really a shame to me. I was brought up knowing that what i have is something special and i should treasure it like a diamond because once its gone you cant just ask for it back...its GONE.I believe that you shouldnt start having sex until u *1st-find someone that you really truly love and care for and that person feels the same about you and *2nd-are capable of raising and caring for a child bcuz condoms are not 100% affective.ABSTINANCE is.So ladies keep your viginity for as long as you can...U wont regret it......Tyra your a Beast!(thats a good thing) keep it up and your going to keep inspiring and changing lives!

Posted by Coco 07/10/09 6:57 AM

I had my first son when I was 15 years old, I actually got pregnant when I was 14, Its SO NOT EASY! I was one of the lucky ones to survive it, and I am now 19 years old, I graduated, got a job, Ive gotten married(not to my 1st sons father) and have had my second son, It was NOT easy, I have had to deal with two parents addicted to drugs, They blame me and my pregnancy for their addiction. I just really wish, girls would stop this, I Really do not want to see this happening. I do not think its gonna get any better.

Posted by Cassie 07/09/09 10:42 PM

Haha I have done alot of things. I am normally the instagator of everything too. I don't pressure anyone into anything but I am the one to Provoke everything. I have poped pills before not knowing what they are but there was no effect. I also have problems with my anger but I know how to contol it. I have really VIOLENT thought. Killing people would be normal to me. I have learned to deal with it fer right now but....do I want to deal with controling it any longer?

Posted by Carlene 07/09/09 7:53 PM

Hi, Tyra. My name is Brandi. I am 14 and i was peer pressured into sex. I had unprotected sex 3 times with one guy and the next day had unprotected sex with another guy. I felt so nasty afterwards when i returned home, so i confronted my mom. She was disappointed and is more strict than ever now and won't believe me when i tell her i don't plan to have sex again for a while. I am not pregnant, thank God, and i'm not sure if i have any STD's or not. I haven't been to any doctors at all. And every guy i talk to it feels like they're pressuring me into sex all over again. I have no idea what to do, please, i need your advice. Please.

Posted by Brandi 07/09/09 7:03 PM

Hi tyra my names jasmine me and my friend got in a fight with some girls(they jumped us)because they though that we were talking smack about them. My friend n i "lost" the fight but we never thought that they were capable of jumping us. Were only 13 years old n this proves how violent the world is. But my question is how can we do we stop all this violence?

Posted by jasmine castano 07/09/09 2:24 PM