The study was accompanied by a commentary which pointed out that only 13.9 percent of the adolescents in the latest National Survey of Family Growth cohort reported having had any education about saying no to sex by sixth grade, and called for “medically accurate, developmentally appropriate sex education starting in elementary school,” as is also recommended by the Future of Sex Education Initiative.ĭr.
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Interestingly, those percentages were similar for those who began having intercourse when they were 13 or older. In fact, of those who were 18 to 24 at the time of the survey who reported having initiated sexual activity before the age of 13, 8.5 percent characterized it as unwanted, choosing the response: “I really didn’t want it to happen at the time,” and 54.6 percent as wanted, responding, “I really wanted it to happen at the time,” while 37 percent “had mixed feelings” about it. “How can we think about addressing potential vulnerabilities, especially if those experiences were not wanted?” “I don’t want to perpetuate the double standard that it’s O.K. If that is true for boys who start sexual activity in high school, he said, the gap is even more significant for those who become sexually active at these young ages. Marcell, an associate professor of general pediatrics and adolescent medicine at Johns Hopkins Children’s Center, who was one of the authors of the study. The majority of boys in the United States don’t get comprehensive sex education before they are sexually active, said Dr. The researchers combined data from three different survey years of the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System, giving them information from 19,916 male students. In April, the journal JAMA Pediatrics published a study of early sexual initiation among males in the United States. There are many factors that go into individual trajectories, including the individual child’s physical and emotional development the home environment and parental supervision practices and the local culture and standards in the child’s community, school and circle of friends.īut kids who start having sex early are kids we should be worrying about, kids at risk. These are associations, not cause-and-effect explanations.
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In those terms, what is called early sexual initiation - that is, intercourse before the age of 13 - is well-known as a marker for other kinds of risk, in both girls and boys, including binge drinking and having multiple sexual partners. If students are sexually active, it asks for the age of first sexual intercourse, which is an important milestone.įrom a public health point of view, sexual intercourse initiates young people into certain kinds of risk, notably pregnancy and sexually transmitted infection. Every couple of years, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention asks middle and high school students to fill out surveys in class for the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System.