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Sexual activity in the teen and young adult community has little to do with the intelligence quotient. Intelligence is something a person is born with. Wisdom, however, is a learned quality, one that is needed to make the decision to have or not to have sex. A person's IQ determines that person's ability to learn, it does not reflect the sex drive.

Sexual activity occurs across all spectrums of the teenage world. While the incidence of teen pregnancy may be higher in certain social and economic groups, this is little indication that "intelligent" teens are less likely to have sex. The lack of a strong support system, poverty, and the desire to belong or to be wanted are much more likely to affect a person's decision to have sex than that person's IQ. Teens who come from higher economic groups may have more access to birth control than those in lower economic groups, and may be sneakier about their activities. Brilliant people have come from the lowest levels of society. Great idiots have been produced by the cream of society.

Does every high-scoring SAT tester refrain from sexual activity? No. Does every teenager who experiences pregnancy suffer a low IQ? No. Many teens who live with the proof of their sexual activity go on to become educated, productive members of society. Many ivy-league college grads go on to give nothing back to the community.
Our prisons are filled with masterminds who used their intelligence to conduct serial acts of criminality.

Finally, tests that are formulated to determine a person's intelligence level are not always definitive. Again, socio-economic standing has been proven to be a factor when determining the accuracy of those tests. Poverty doesn't equal stupidity. Wealth doesn't equal intelligence. When hormones start racing and bodies rev up, rich or poor, the intelligence quotient is out the window.

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