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Wednesday 17 March 2010

Under age sex


There are lots of teenagers out there that are having under age sex. They know that it is wrong and illegal but it doesn’t stop them from doing it. In my opinion i don’t think that teenagers care as far as they are concerned its their body and they can do whatever they want with it.
I don’t think that some teenagers know the consequences of having sex under age. For example the girl could get pregnant. You always hear stories of young teenage girls who get pregnant their rather didn’t know that they were pregnant or they didn’t think they could get pregnant at such a young age. I remember the story that was in the news about a 13 year old Schoolboy Alfie believed he had become Britain's youngest dad after 15-year-old girlfriend Chantelle Stedman gave birth to daughter Maisie in Eastbourne, East Sussex. But the DNA showed that he was not the father. When i read this story i was gob smacked because the young boy didn’t even look 13 he looked about 8 years old. The first thing that came into my mind was what is a 15 year old girl doing with a 13 year old boy. http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&rlz=1T4DSGI_en-GBGB346GB346&q=dad+at+13+not+the+father&meta=&aq=0&aqi=g4&aql=&oq=dad+at+13+&gs_rfai=.

The law believes that when a girl is under 13 she is not mature enough to consent to sex. So even if a 12-year-old girl willingly has intercourse, as far as the law is concerned, she has not "consented" to it because legally she is not able to.
The implication of the rule is that anyone who has sex with a girl under 13 is committing what is termed "statutory rape". There is no defence to this charge even if a boy says the girl was willing or that he thought she was older than she was, it would not matter.http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/special_report/1999/02/99/e-cyclopedia/437789.stm.

I think that having sex under that age of 16 is a hard topic debate about i am not for it but i am not agent it ether. Way back in the day young girl could get married at a very young age and start having a family. This was seen as normal. The law has changed over time and so have people’s expectations of how we should act in the society. In my opinion i think that it is a person’s choice to choose when they are ready to have sex. On the other hand this all depends on the young person’s mentality are they mature enough, they having sex because all their friends are having sex and they don’t want to feel left out or are they having sex with the other person because they mean something to them.
In my opinion i also feel that there is a lot of expectation for boys to have sex at an early age. For example if a boy has sex at the age of 14 his friends would think that he is cool and he is a man. I also don’t think that his parents would be that disappointed they would probably just ask him if he used protection and to be careful. But on the other hand if a girl had sex at the age of 14 her parents would be angry they would probably want to find out who the boy is and tell him to keep away from her or they might even tell the police because she is under the age. Also if a girl has sex at 14 she is classified as a hore but a boy would be classified as a man.


Coming to a conclusion i think that both teenage boys and girls are under a lot pressure when it comes to sex. I also think that there should be more sex education classed tort at schools so that young people know more about teenage pregnancy and STI.

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1 comment:

  1. I think that now times have changed, there is more help on underage Sex...I think yes the children are young but its up to them really....I do Feel for the parents but when a child wants to do something, they are gonna go ahead and do it...yes true they have a lot of peer pressure but its life I guess nowadays...and I think no matter how much education you give to the children what ever child will want....they will try to get

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