Coital status and perceptions about sexual abstinence refusal skills.

Purpose: To compare perceptions and use of sexual refusal skills.

Methods: A voluntary, anonymous sample of ninth and tenth grade students (N = 2256) reported their perceptions about and use of sexual refusal skills that had been taught in school. Forty-four percent of the students classified themselves as virgins, 18% reported one sexual partner, and 38% reported multiple sex partners.