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Abstract. To determine the correlation between the role of parents and the exposure of media information in the prevention of sexually transmitted infections behavior in teenagers at Vocational High School 3 Denpasar. This study employed a correlative analytics design with a cross-sectional approach. To conduct this study, 250 respondents who students of class X and XI of Vocational High School 3 Denpasar were recruited as the sample through probability sampling technique with simple random sampling. The data were collected using a questionnaire. Findings indicated that the role of parents showed a median value of 40, in which categorized in the good category. The results on the exposure of media information showed a median value of 8, in which categorized as high category and the median value preventive behavior showed 34, therefore categorized as a good category. Based on the analysis of Spearman Rho, there was a relationship between the role of parents in the prevention behavior of sexually transmitted infections (p-value <0.001 and r = 0.653). Moreover, there was a correlation between media exposure to the information on the prevention behavior of sexually transmitted infections (p-value <0.001 and r = 0.592). There is a correlation between the role of parents and media information exposure to STI prevention behaviors. The parents as first educators are expected to give more time to discuss teenage sexual problems to reduce risky behavior.