Teenagers have the experience of sexual intercourse when they are too young! Please, pay attention how many youngsters start sexual intercourse before they are 16 years old. In Greece, more than 53% have already started when they are 15!
In the 1st shape, 1st column, you can find the age of 1st sexual experience of the people that filled in the questionnaire in each country; «total» refers to the % of people in all the studied countries that had 1st sexual intercourse at that age; «others» refers to the people that have a different nationality.
In the next shape you can find the differences of genders in what concerns the age of 1st sexual experience.
What do you think about this information? Which relevant conclusions do you think we can draw?
I'm really worried with people who start to have sexual intercourse before they are 12 years old! Can you imagine?! How can we expect this children to have responsability in sex?I can't avoid to think maybe to have sex in that age is not a matter of their will. We can't forget that with that age, they don't have mature will yet!
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these are interesting results but are these answers only from adolescents or from all the people who filled the questionnaire? if that’s so we don’t really know if right now our children are behaving according to this numbers or if this are results from various generations.
Hello, Dulce.
You are right. I need to publish a new shape with the information you are requiring.
About this topic. .
I think when we have a sexual relationship with our partner, has to be at the appropriate time with someone special to us. . For me the right age to have a relationship to be 17-18 years when we reach a certain maturity, leaving us no influence on other grounds, for example, just to tell my friends that I am no longer a virgin, Who thinks so, still thinks like a teenager, not sure what are doing. Sexual intercourse is not looking, when have happen, is the right moment.
( Sorry , my english is not good , I hope you understand )
Bruno Aires
Mariana Viola Santos (11ºB da Escola Henriques Nogueira) said:
"As I've got more or less that age, I do not have much experience of several existing realities on the issue, like people older than me. I think, anyway, that sex has become widespread in the younger age groups. In the past, once talk sex was a "crime", but it is now a normal thing, and I think it exceeded some limits of liability. Because sex must be closely linked to responsibility at that age. I sincerely, when I was 12 years old, troubled me more with the school and play child's school. Now my younger sister at that age (12 y.o.), is much less "girl" than I was. In Fact, there are generations changes and with them the traditional way of living escapes. 12 years is too soon. Some people say that we only learn from mistakes, but there are some errors that can change drastically our lives. How many girls had to leave school, so that they can raise children? How many have lost their childhood, fun nights, the taste of summer in the beach? I do not think that there must be a minimum age, I think there must be a responsibility, maturity and security concerning that decision. "
Inês Pereira (Escola Henriques Nogueira) said:
«In my view, the results of investigations have also given very worrying news, since the percentage of students who started their sexual life before age 16 is very high. Often young people do not think about the consequences of their actions on this issue and probably this is also true now. Before the age of sixteen, and even at that age, since we are fully into adolescence your body is constantly changing, so such a decision before a certain age can be harmful. In my view, this decision must be taken consciously, being aware of the dangers they run, the changes that may arise, and after a long conversation in a long period with the partner.»
I think young people start their sexual life earlier and earlier due to the fact that nowadays there is so much openness to sexual intercourse. Everything around us is full of references to sex: in movies, books, TV, internet, etc.
The curiosity of young people in exploring this subject is so aroused. This makes young people want to find out your sex life at an earlier age. The conclusions that retreat of this information is that although many young people already have had sex too soon does not make them responsible and mature, by contrast, leads to more irresponsibility by making them more vulnerable to STDs and early pregnancy, adversely altering the course of their future.
11ºA
Sexual initiation depends on several factors such as culture, religion, education and the people around. Nowadays teenagers take some decisions that sometimes are not suitable, in our opinion. Some youths do it very early age due to curiosity and fear of exclusion from social groups. In Greece and Romania young people, in particular, seem to start very early before the age of twelve which is very alarming because at this age do not have a sense of what's sex life, problems that may come associated such as HIV and other diseases . In our view, one needed to alert parents and teenagers involved in the problems of early sexual initiation. It is important to be aware and make decisions with deep reflections.
Bernardo Brasil nº4
Emanuel Antunes nº8
Luís Henriques nº15
11ºA
I think this information is very worrying.
From the results, we can conclude that teens starts their sexual activity too soon. The reasons are varied: the influence of the media (in a world that only advertises sex, affecting more and more the actions of persons), influences of friends, need for attention, lack of information, etc ...
The maturity and the sense of responsability ís not developed at 12 years old. These qualities only come with age and experience. Sexual activity may result in pregnancy or sexual diseases (obviosly a child is not responsible enough to think about it!!)
We also can see that girls starts having sex later than the boys, which shows that, after all, the tradition of girls stay virgins still afect some of them.
After knowing these results, we should warn young people and children to start their sex lives when they are ready:
-at the right time;
-with the right person;
-when the reasons for doing it are the right ones (not just for fun but for the meaning of that union);
By checking the information, we can see that there alot of people who start their sexual activity when they are young, most of them before 15/16 years old. In my opinion, most of them didn't think in the possible consequences that it could bring them, such as pregnancy or some sexual deseases. Some of the people might not have the access to the right information, and I guess most of them do it because they are curious (which I think is common), to have some fun, or just because they are drunk!
In my opinion young people start their sexual life earlier due to the fact that today, all children from an early age contains much information about sex, through classes, television etc.. Usually people have sex as a normal act, but should be a decision that should be taken consciously, knowing the dangers they face, changes that may arise, early pregnancy and other diseases. Each person has a way of thinking about sexual activity, but often is related to education, culture, religion and our friends. For as is seen in the graph, Greece and Romania, the young, begin very early, before the age of twelve, which is very alarming because at this age are not aware of what is sex life, and all problems that may likely to have been wrong.
Carina Querido,10ºA , Henriques Nogueira
After observing these data, we can conclude that people start their sexual life earlier ... Although in my opinion there is no right age to begin sexual life, I think 12 years is an age too early, because at this age the body is still in transition and not yet mature enough to do so. Possibly, or were forced / as to do so, or else make us free and spontaneous will, which is a bit worrying.
Cátia Santos 10ºC
Catarina Bernardino said:
«After analyzing the data compiled in the tables attached and reflected on that data, I think that there is no specific age for having the first sexual experience, I think someone is when you feel ready for the mental level, and have enough maturity to realize and reflect on what they will do, and what the possible consequences, or pleasure, you can take it. I also think that the person who decided to have their first sexual experience is an important factor, in my opinion, that person should be someone that we trust and love.
However, I think having the first sexual experience at age twelve is too early, since the twelve years, although we think we are prepared and know it all, the truth is that we lack a lot more maturity and wisdom that they are 17 or 18 years , for example. In my opinion having the first sexual experience at an early age can cause damage not only physical, because our bodies are still forming, and mental, and persist for life.»
Catarina Bernardino nº6 10ºC
Henrique Pinto said: «I think in this report the most significant things are the age, the gender and the place where the peolple who answered the questionnaire live to compare the different thinking of each person in each parameter.
in this report i conclude that:
- the young people think that the right age that they have there first time is between 14-17, which i agree with it
- there is no right age to start a sexual relationship, i agree with it because when a couple start a sexual relationship is when they are ready to do it.
- Romania is a country that is very conservative and faithful because girls can not have several boyfriends at the same time but in the oposite there are big percentage that allows man to have several girlfriends at the same time, and i think that the man have more ''power'' in romania allowing just the man have very girlfriends at the same time
And i think this report are very important to see the diferences in space and time.»
Henrique Pinto
Here I am, after a long time of silence, ready to give my point of view on the results of our questionnaire.
First of all I would like to point out that the number of collected questionnaires from my school is not enough to reach a conclusion on the average sexual behavior of adolescents in my area (not country). Nevertheless, my experience gained during the last 7 years I get involved in sexual education gives me clues on how adolescents think and why they act so. Here is my explanation on some of the collected data:
Sexual behavior at a very early age (12) has been mentioned to me personally by a girl who was raped and a boy who was led to a prostitutes’ house by his own father. So I can’t see any will in this action from the side of the child. We cannot say that they agreed on what happened to them. I am also not sure if other cases refer to masturbation and not to a normal sexual intercourse at that age. Most students that filled the questionnaire were shy and didn’t ask any questions, even when they didn’t clearly understand the question.
Sexual activity at ages below 16 was a result of not clear and conscious decision, as it happened while the persons were drunk, during a party, most of the times. And if there is no real sexual intercourse at this age, for the reasons that Gonçalo Brás Gomes has very accurately mentioned, teenagers are exploring their bodies with sexual acts, even without having any relation with the other person. That’s what struck me, hearing about the easiness of acting so. And it’s very clear that boys pretend to have emotions towards girls, so that they convince them to be with them.
Another interesting finding through my talking with my students was that most of the times when the first sexual intercourse happens at an age below 16, girls don’t do it again unless they find a boy they are sure to have a long-lasting relation or they keep having this first boyfriend for the next years and even marry him when they finish school. They don’t change easily sexual partners. Boys of course have a completely different attitude.
For me, this questionnaire was the chance to start talking with my students about issues that (as they told me) they had never talked with their parents about. Some girls told me that I did very well to start such a conversation in the classroom because they had the chance to hear how boys think on such issues and they realized the difference of attitude towards sex between boys and girls. It’s a pity that all these conversations are not mentioned here in this blog and it’s my fault. Sexual education is a vast field to be explored, the need for it is great and any effort, no matter how small is, does good to adolescents.
If we observe the results, we see that teenagers usually start to have sexual relations in the ages of 16/17 which is very worrying.
The most strangest thing is that the results show that teenagers already started having sexual relations with the age of 12 or less, and that is really disturbing.
Vânia Filipa said:
«With the visualization of data in the tables, we can conclude that, as the years go by, young people increasingly begin soon your sex life. Years ago, young people lost their virginity at around 18/20 years. Today, however, lose their virginity at 14/15 years, if not sooner.
We can consider this event due to information which today is provided to young people about the precautions, on the pleasures and many of the problems that sexuality can bring. On one side is good because it prevents these teens change their lives because they had neglected. But with the results displayed, we can conclude that it is likely that young people tend to start their sexual life earlier and earlier which is very worrying as they start to lose sense of what is "surrender to another person, body and soul."»
Mariana Antunes said:
«Commenting on the data from this questionnaire, in my opinion until the question six, inclusive, there is no relevance, but in question even I find it strange that there is a lot of people still choosing an option such as religion to be sexual inactive, or other options such as «because of the negative consequences» or «pregnancy». However, we must also take into account that these people may be inserted into another society that defends other values and also inserted in different religions, thus resulting in these reviews varied. In the next question I was also "surprised" finding that there is still a significant number of responses saying that sex is like a game, these people have sex and it does not essentially mean nothing to them.
Considering question with respect to age of first sexual intercourse, we can see a lot of people responding that it occurred under the age of 14 years, I think that they are not very aware of what they are doing .
On the question nineteen, I guess that answers that say that they have sex as a way to get power are given more for boys, and they express to have a culture where gender equality does not exist, ie, they are sexist.
In comparison, the questions ten twenty-three p.m. we can conclude that women continue to be assigned a lesser role, since there are more answers to say that man can have more than one woman and referring to something less similar for women, it denotes a society where women have a secondary role in relation to man.»
I would like to mention an important fact. In class, our teacher showed us the results about the age of 1st sexual experience. If we cross this information with the other results about the age people think they should have their 1st sexual experience, we see an alarming fact!
In some cultures, people think one thing and do another. There is a conflict in their minds. This can have serious consequences like lack of self-esteem, frustration
. If most people think they should start their sex life late but they start it early, something is wrong.
They can start with understanding what makes them think they should initiate sex late: religion, parents, fear, shame...
Then they must do their own choices and never forget that none of us should do or not do something because other's opinions. We can't regret a choice well thought and that doesn't go against our own values!
Matilde (10ºC of Henriques Nogueira School) said:
«After analyzing the questionnaire data, there is something worrying me that is to think that the age of sexual 1st experience is everyday lower among young people. It is a complete irresponsability. They are not mature enough to make decisions of such importance. In these cases applies to this matter that idea we learnt in philosophy lessons about the relationship between age, freedom and responsibility. And it is evident that in some cases people want more freedom but with a lower sense of responsibility. So, no doubt, when someone is still a child, he is not old enough to have such responsibilities it must be parents having freedom to make choices replacing teenager. To start your sex life you have to be responsible for knowing how to deal with possible situations that may occur, we must be informed of the risks of STD and all the information useful and valuable. Above all it is necessary to be in a solid loving relationship to make the right decisions. The problem is not only parents, many do not do a minimum idea why their kids are so young in such a situation, many children, both boys and girls are pressured by the pair and even friends. Like many young people use tobacco or other substances to join the group and to feel that these kids are part of the group so that they are not rejected by the group or by the partner. I apologize for my problems with the expression in English language; I had to make use of google translator.»
Mario Carvalho (10ºC in Henriques Nogueira School) said: «The result of this survey allows us to reflect on cultural diversity, to the extent that people from places and / or different times have different cultures, and cultures require different practices and values. For example, the issue of age when they had the 1st sexual experience, one sees a clear difference between Portugal and Greece, as the 16/17 year in Greece, about 93% of young people had already started their sexual life , as the young Portuguese have a result below, with about 70% of young people. This difference in results may be due to the existence of one's mind, say a little sexist in Portugal, the result of the existing values in Portugal.»
Bruno Aires (Henriques Nogueira School, 11ºA) said: «About this topic. . I think when we have a sexual relationship with our partner, has to be at the appropriate time with someone special to us. For me the right age to have a relationship to be 17-18 years when we reach a certain maturity; it can't be done, for example, just to tell my friends that I am no longer a virgin. Who thinks so, still thinks like a teenager, being not sure about what he is doing. Sexual intercourse is not something you look for; when you are in the right moment with the right person, it will happen in a natural way. ( Sorry , my english is not good , I hope you understand )»
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