A study, which took place in 2012, looked at tweens across 44 countries and the. The age of consent is the legal age at which an individual is considered mature enough to consent to sex Sexual relations with someone under the age of consent are considered statutory rape, even (in some jurisdictions), if both partners are themselves younger than the age of consent. First sexual intercourse, or sexual debut, is a normal part of human development Adolescents in the most recent cohorts were less likely than those born in the 1970s to have had sex by any given age Adolescents who had sex early were less likely to have used a contraceptive method at first sex and took longer to initiate contraceptive use than those who had sex later.
In a 2003 study, 89% of girls reported feeling pressured by boys to have sex, and 49% of boys reported feeling pressured by girls to have sex In contrast, 67% of boys felt pressured by other boys, and 53% of girls felt pressured by other girls. In two national surveys, investigators found that between 4% and 8% of boys reported having sex before they were 13 That number varied greatly depending on where the boys lived.
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