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Do you agree that now a days teens are having sex too young? I mean 18 is fine but I just found out that someone I know lost his virginity at 12? That is just sad.
Do you agree that now a days teens are having sex too young? | | It's just sex. As long as they're being safe and it's between two consenting individuals, I don't see a problem. | Why do people complain teens have sex too young these days, when the average age is actually rising? In ancient times, it used to be normal as soon as you hit puberty, and just a couple of centuries ago it was normal for teenagers to marry and have guyren at 14 or even younger.
The average age in modern times is around 17 or 18, which is higher than even just a couple of decades ago when it was closer to 15.
Why do people have such unreasonable expectations of teenagers these days? They are not guyren still, having sex is normal and it's not increasing in frequency it's actually decreasing. | | Society has made it out today to make sex bad. Even Sinful. Im a teenager and even when they did sex ed it wasn't teaching us about safe sex. It was teaching more about why sex is bad. | Any other TEENS agree with me that teens are too young for sex? Hmm? I'm 14. I think it's disgusting and so dumb that teens have sex. I think teens r too young for that. Anyone agree? | Why do young teens have sex? While a recent study suggested sexy media images might be to blame, a new study shows guys might also be motivated by relationship goals like intimacy and social status.
Teens want their relationships to bring them intimacy, social status, and sexual pleasure -- and they have a strong expectation these goals will be fulfilled if they have sex, according to a report in the June 2006 issue of Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health.
The report says these perceived benefits should be considered along with the risks (sexually transmitted diseases, pregnancypregnancy) when developing programs aimed at preventing early teen sex.
Mary Ott, MD, from Indiana University, along with colleagues from the University of California, San Francisco, sought to find out why young teens want -- or would want -- to have sex (defined in this study as male-female intercourse). They surveyed 637 ninth-graders in two socioeconomically and ethnically diverse Northern California schools.
Gender Differences
About 57% of the guys were girls, 43% boys, and most were 14 years old.
The researchers found the boys and girls valued relationship goals differently:
Girls considered intimacy significantly more important than boys did.
Boys reported higher expectations that sex would lead to pleasure and social status.
Of the teens who answered a question about sexual experience, 13% said they had had sex. The experienced teens considered intimacy and sexual pleasure significantly more important as a relationship goal than the inexperienced teens did.
As for social status, sexually experienced girls saw less value in that than inexperienced girls did. There was no difference of opinion about social status between experienced and inexperienced boys.
The researchers say this supports the double standard that sex improves the social status of boys but jeopardizes it for girls.
Generally, teens expected sex to help them reach goals of intimacy, pleasure, and social status. However, girls and sexually inexperienced teens had lower expectations.
Prevention Tactics
The researchers say programs to dissuade early teen sex usually focus on the negative -- the risks of STDs and pregnancy.
Teens might heed the message better, they say, if the positive expectations -- "developing a sense of intimacy, achieving social skills and goals, and experiencing sexual pleasure" -- are recognized and alternative ways to achieve those goals suggested. | R teens too young to be having sex? I'm still a virgin and a lot of people on here who are like really young teens say oh I'm having sex. I think guys in my school are way to immature for me. All they ever think about is Sex, Naked girls, more sex and nude Girls. I'm waiting for a 20 something year old male because they are way Mature! | Hi Kitty
I 100% agree with you.
I know what I am about to say will upset a lot of teenage guys but your much better off with a slightly older guy . One with a bit of sexual experience, especially if your a virgin
I gave mine up aged 16 to a guy the same age it was not a disaster but it was, shall we say a bit of a let down. the next guy I meet was 21 and what a deference he taught me every thing from how to play with the foreskin to how to relax and enjoy an orgasm
the impotent thing is WHEN YOUR READY and you have found the right guy
good luck girl hope you find your HA-penis ha ha
Jill ;-)XXX | If teens are too young to sex then why do we have the urges to in the first place? People say, oh you're too young to be having sex. Don't say puberty, obviously I know all about that, but still if having sex is actually wrong at ages 13-15, then why are we biologically programmed to have sexual desires and such at that age? Is that nature's way of saying that it's time to reproduce? | It's our culture.
500, 1000, 2000+ years ago, cultural expectations and life in general was very different. Once young people reached age 14, 15, 16, they were already married off, raising their own families, tending their herds, working the land - they were already adults and raising the next generation.
This is how human beings naturally are.
Due to the nature of the development of mankind's industrialized and now automated technologies, young adults must struggle to put aside their natural biological urges and concentrate on improving their education in order to be able to compete in the workforce of the modern world and it's culture so they can afford to live and raise their families in a standard which our culture says is acceptable.
Our modern culture also prefers to keep young adults as guyish, as immature and as foolish as possible, postponing adulthood and maturity out of some strange attraction to so-called "youthfulness". | What is with young teens (as young as 15) having sex? Isn't this too young? I may be a little old fashioned but I just don't understand this. Why is it happening more often? | | Sexualisation of young girls from all angles - tv, fashion... Everything! It's becoming more acceptable and it has to stop. It makes me feel weird for being a 16 year old virgin, and I shouldn't feel like that! X | Teen sex: too young or not? okay so im a teenager. and i really really like my boyfriend. his names johnny and we've been talking about sex lately. i told him i want to have it and he agreed. but... im scared. i mean im a virgin and i dont know all the positions and crap.
and do you think im too young? ill be using a condom. and i wont get caught dont worry.
so help? | Minimum age should be 18. That's when a person is legally responsible for the consequences of their actions. Prior to that, your folks are primary responsible...and they shouldn't have to pay one cent toward medical bills for pregnancy or STD treatment for their guy.
If a person wants to have sex, they need to be able to handle ANYthing that might occur...physically, financially, and emotionally.
If ya can't pay, don't play. Otherwise, it's just irresponsible and should be illegal.
Sex not occur before:
1. You are ready to deal with a pregnancy, should it occur
2. You are ready to deal with an STD, should it occur
3. When you know how a woman can become pregnant (all the ways it can occur)
4. When you know what the various STDs are and how they are transmitted and how to help protect against them
5. When you are ready to insist your partner wear a condom (female) or insist that you wear one (male)
6. When you are on a reliable form of birth control and using it properly (female) or ensure that she is (male)
7. When you are ready to deal with any emotional issues that may come from being intimate with another person
Until you've got those things covered, you should not have sex.
FYI: Do you know how many condoms break or are used incorrectly every year? Do you know how many people using the site right now, are guyren of a couple who was "using a condom"? Don't guy yourself that a condom is all you need... | Im Sexually Frustrated But Too Young To Have Sex , Masturbating Isn't Satisfying Enough Now... What Can I Do?!? Im A Teen , Too Young To Have Sex At The Moment , And Masturbating Isn't Satifying Me Enough Anymore , Not Even Watching Porn , An Orgasm Is All Over In 5 Mins. Im A Lad , And Im VERY Frustrated (Sexually) | | just f*king bare with it, we all passed through that stage ( the sex drive stage) i survived. stop masturbating and have something to keep you busy, if u still cant call me | What can we do to help young teens today avoid the pain of too early sexual experiences? Many consequences can result when adolescents have sex (std's, preegnancy, loss of peer relationships, lower self-esteem, loss of self-respect, lost of parental respect, negative emotional and physical relationships in the long run, etc, etc), yet between our sex saturated society and early biological maturation, what to do? And how do we avoid the opposite problem of guys who wait for marriage getting married too young so they can have sex?
Obviously, education alone doesn't work. And I know that people are ready at different times, so I am not advocating people wait until they are 30 or even necessarily married, nor am I judging those who don't wait until they are out of any specific grade/life phase. Just not when they are not emotionally ready. What can we do to help them wait until their emotion and maturity catches up with their biology? | | We can educate them. People are going to make bad choices no matter what the facts. So just as we educate teens about responsible driving and their are still teen fatatlities from car crashes, we should not stop educating teens about sex simply becuase of the ones who still get pregnant or STIs. Also, the education should include information about healthy relationships, not just that they should wait, or the dangers of sex. Knowing what is healthy, knowing their options, knowing what other people have done as they came of age sexually will help teens see a reason behind the warnings and the advice. The more sex education is related to tangible real-world facts, the more it will help teens. If they have a standard of healthy relationships to judge against, they can avoid being hurt by having sex too early, or being pressured into doing things they didnt want to do. | I was told that if a teen has sex too young, he will get scratches and bumps all over his penis? and his penis will fall off. is this true? im 14 and im still a virgin and i was thinking about losing my virginity | | Yeah, that's pretty much the way it is. I don't know how they do it in your school district, but here they usually teach about penile molting in 8th grade sex ed. |
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