Sex and drugs hit girls harder | The Register

Sex and drugs hit girls harder | The Register: "Sex is more likely to lead to depression in teenage girls than experimenting with drugs or alcohol, research has found.
Whether you are a boy or a girl, sex, drugs and alcohol screw you up, and abstinence makes the heart grow stronger, the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation (PIRE) found in a survey of 13,500 American teenagers.
Yet boys are far less likely than girls to get depressed after experimenting with any vice.
Rock'n'Roll is still thought to be safe for consumption, though some observers suspect it may be an indicator of poor taste.
The research, to be published in the October edition of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, examined how eagerly teenagers took to their vices and what the consequences were for their state of mind.
It found that those teenagers who abstained from sex, drugs and alcohol showed only a four per cent chance of depression a year later, which the researchers said was "very low". Those kids who were more hedonistic had different experiences according to their gender.
Boys who only experimented with vice did not increase their likelihood of depression. But girls only had to have sex to bring on a threefold increase in their chances of becoming depressed compared to the abstainers. A two-fold increase was experienced by those girls who experimented with drugs and alcohol."