It all started when a group of teenage boys and girls, as young as 13, and young adults had gathered at a home when an underage girl came over to the house and began drinking with the group of teens. More than 7 percent of teenage girls participating in a study led by a school of public health researcher reported having engaged in group sex One in 13 girls, some as young as 14, taking part in a school of public health study reported having group sex, a trend that researchers say poses risks to their sexual and reproductive health. • on average, teens have sex for the first time at age 18 (finer & philbin, 2014) • by age 15, only 16 percent of teens have had vaginal intercourse By age 19, seven in 10 have had intercourse (guttmacher institute, 2014)
Group sex among adolescents a public health concern, new study says [eurekalert] earlier Fickle teens are no longer interested in having sex image via artiomp/shutterstock Just as important, it points to the reality gap between increasingly normative sexual behavior.
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