A study from the Journal of Urban Health: Bulletin of New York Academy of Medicine found that one in 13 girls at Massachusetts health clinics aged 14 to 20 had multi-person sex, usually through coercion.
For background, read Internet Porn Viewed by Most Children: Study
-- From "Study Finds Group Sex Among Teens Is Often Coerced" by Jason M. Breslow, WBUR Boston NPR 12/20/11
The study, led by Emily Rothman, an associate professor of public health at Boston University, further found the average age for the first group sex encounter to be just 15-and-a-half years old.
Rothman and her coauthors say group sex is much more prevalent among young people than is commonly believed, and that has implications for parents, educators, and health care providers.
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From "Teens as Young as 14 Engaging in Group Sex, Study Finds" by Susan Donaldson James, ABC News 12/20/11
Rothman interviewed 328 females between the ages of 14 and 20 who had used a community or school-based health center to see if they had ever had sex with multiple partners.
These girls had sought help at the clinics for a variety of reasons from strep throats to sprained ankles, not just for reproductive care.
"I think one of the things going on here is that boyfriends or sex partners are forcing their female partners to watch porn and also then coercing them," Rothman said. "Whether that is through peer pressure or doing things they see in the porn, we don"t know."
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