Sexual Development: Figures

Research Rutgers WPF and STI AIDS Netherlands

To investigate sex under the age of 25 in 2012 surveyed almost 8,000 young people between 12 and 25 about their sexual behavior and perception. A similar scale and representative study was also published in 2005.

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In the sexual behavior of young people occurred barely offsets from 2005, the year in which the previous "Sex under 25" study was conducted. The age of first sex has remained virtually the same. The majority of young people still protect well against pregnancy. Sexual border crossing remains high. New information is that the first sexual intercourse is unexpected for many young people and that girls are more likely than boys to regret their first time. Within relationships young people quit too soon with the use of condoms. Gay Guys on average come a year earlier 'off the shelf', despite minor gay acceptance.

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There have been hardly any changes in the sexual behavior of young people compared to 2005. Their sexual "career" practically is the same as seven years ago. The age at which young people first have sexual intercourse is still the same: 17.1 years, with half of the young people experience here. The majority of young people to protect themselves, as in 2005, good for pregnancy. Eighty-seven percent of boys and 91 percent of girls used at first intercourse a condom, the pill or another contraceptive. In intercourse with the last partner takes 78 percent of boys and 81 percent of girls always steps to prevent pregnancy.

The first unexpected and not always pleasant
First time sex is for as much as 38 percent of boys and 31 percent of girls unexpectedly. This group protects itself worse against pregnancy and STDs. In addition, differences boys and girls in their experience of the first time. One in four girls says that she found annoying the first time, compared to one in twenty boys. A striking figure because it let you enjoy the other among boys is the most common reason for sex. Twenty-nine percent of girls said in more or less to regret their first sexual intercourse, compared with 16 percent of boys. Of the girls had 22 percent still want to wait with their first time, compared with 8 percent of boys.

Unacceptable behavior still occurs frequently

Despite their youth skills to set boundaries judge high, many young people experience with sexual behavior, especially girls and gay or bisexual boys. Seventeen percent of girls and four percent of boys stated that they occasionally forced into sexual acts that they did not. For gay or bisexual boys over 17 years is 16 percent. More than 7 percent of girls has sometimes had sexual intercourse against her will. Six percent of boys and 12 percent of girls say that someone is angry has agreed to have sex. Six percent of girls and two percent of boys indicates that physical violence was used against them.

Youngsters stop quickly with condoms in relation.

Three quarters of young people used the first time sex a condom. When asked young people whether they used a condom with their last sexual partner, answers 22 percent of boys and 34 percent of girls that they did so only at the beginning of the relationship. Only 22 percent follow the advice to use condoms for at least three months and 13 percent even stops within a week. Two-thirds of them indicated that they quit when condoms are not tested for STIs and HIV. Gay's rather out of the closet despite minor gay acceptance. The age at which boys begin to tell someone that they are on same sex has fallen in six years from 17.8 years to 16.6 years. Lesbian girls at the shift is not significant and is the age of 15.9 years. However, the acceptance of homosexuality is still low among young people. Thus, almost all young people find it good if a boy and girl kissing each other on the street, but accepts half of boys and one-quarter of the girls concerned it off as the two boys. Two kissing girls is that 16 percent of boys this disapproval and a quarter of girls. Twelve percent of boys and three percent of girls said they would end a relationship if one of their friends might be gay or lesbian.

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6 had a positive STD test in the past year, 1,000 boys and 1,000 girls of 12.
Research by STI AIDS Netherlands and the GGD in Rotterdam, Amsterdam and South Limburg among 8,500 sexually active young people between 16 and 29 years shows that 6.3 has a chlamydia infection. Surinamese and Antillean youth are more at risk for STDs.

Teen birth and abortion

Nationwide, nearly 8 out of 1,000 girls under 20 had an abortion (in Amsterdam 21/1000 girls). In 2005 in the Netherlands, six of the 1,000 girls aged 15 to become a mother at 19 years (in Amsterdam 11/1000). The number of teen births and the number of abortions in recent years shows a downward trend. From Amsterdam's figures show that, in particular, Antillean girls, but also Turkish and Surinamese girls are more likely than Dutch and Moroccan girls have a child before their 20th.

The number of teenage pregnancies (for girls from 15 to 19 years) has in recent years dropped [3] and is often chosen for abortion: 2007 2500 girls were teenage mother. Especially among non-western foreign girls has decreased the number of teenage mothers. Young Turkish and Moroccan women of the second generation differ very little indigenous young women. Especially with Surinamese, Antillean, Sub-Saharan African and South American girls are teenage pregnancies four to six times more common than among native Dutch girls. In it are a single mother vast majority of cases. Only 4% of children of Antillean and Surinamese teenage mothers are born within marriage. Among indigenous teenage mothers is 15%. Over two thirds of all Turkish and Moroccan teenage mothers are married at birth. Teenage pregnancy known medically poorer prognosis, with an increased risk of premature birth and perinatal mortality.

The percentage of immigrant youth who have had sex before the age of 17 is not different from the natives. Well let depth research shows that different subgroups immigrant youths more risky sexual behavior by disproportionately more likely to have unprotected sex with multiple sex partners sometimes. Immigrant boys have been significantly more sexual intercourse than indigenous boys (24 and 14%), with Surinamese and Antillean boys 'it' have already done much more often than Dutch, Turkish and Moroccan boys. Immigrant girls on the other hand have had sexual intercourse less frequently than native Dutch (8% versus 15%) and Turkish and Moroccan girl fewer than Surinamese and Antillean girls.

The HBSC study shows that the percentage of native and immigrant students that says ever having barely differs sex. The age at which they started differs with it is not. In general, immigrant boys had more immigrant girls and less likely ever sexual intercourse compared to their native sex mates. However, there are large differences in experience within the ethnic minority group. Especially Antillean and Surinamese girls and boys and Moroccan boys who have relatively extensive experience with sexual intercourse.

Instrumental sex / teenage sex

A literature study and discussions with field experts to the nature, extent and risk of instrumental forms of teenage sex appears within the group of boys standing ages 12-14 positive towards instrumental forms of sex (with lust or material gain, the primary motivation is ). no problem with sex, one in six young people at school in 1995 without the many partners feel for each other, in 2005 this increased to one in four. By field experts are clear shifts in the sense that young people at a much younger age are preoccupied with sex and continue in their sexual contacts.