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A report from The National Survey of Family Growth finds that 17% of teens used the rhythm method -- you know, having unprotected sex based on some math and ovulation cycles -- from 2006 and 2008. That's up 11% from 2002. As the LA Times puts it in their story, "the method has a relatively high failure rate."