One in 13 teenage girls, aged 14 to 20, reported having a group-sex experience, with those young women more likely to have been exposed to pornography and childhood sexual abuse than their peers, according to a new study led by a Boston University School of Public Health BUSPH researcher. In a study published in the Journal of Urban Health: Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine, Emily Rothman, associate professor of community health sciences at BUSPH, and colleagues surveyed females who had utilized a Boston-area community or school-based health clinic, to explore whether they had ever had sex with multiple partners -- either consensual or forced. The authors call this sexual experience "multi-person sex," or MPS, in order to underscore that it refers to any group sex experience on a continuum from gang rape to sex parties. Of the 7. Forty-five percent reported a lack of condom use by a male participant during the most recent group-sex encounter. Participants with MPS experience also were more likely to report cigarette smoking, dating violence victimization, or ever being diagnosed with a sexually transmitted disease, the study found. In addition, those who had seen pornography in the past month were approximately five times as likely as those who had not seen pornography to report ever having had a group-sex experience. The average age of the first group-sex experience was
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More than 7 percent of teenage girls participating in a study led by a School of Public Health researcher reported having engaged in group sex. One in 13 girls, some as young as 14, taking part in a School of Public Health study reported having group sex, a trend that researchers say poses risks to their sexual and reproductive health. Emily Rothman, an SPH associate professor of community health sciences, and her colleagues surveyed females ages 14 to 20 who had visited a Boston-area community or school-based health clinic, to explore whether they had ever had sex with multiple partners—either consensual or forced. Of the 7. Participants also were more likely to report cigarette smoking, being the victim of dating violence, or being diagnosed with a sexually transmitted disease. Group sex is happening, and we need to be prepared to address it. The study found that the average age of the first group-sex experience was The majority of those who reported such activity said they had participated only once, but 21 percent had multiple group-sex encounters. More than half 54 percent of those teens were younger than 16 when they had a group-sex experience, which in Massachusetts would mean that their sexual partners were violating state law regarding the age of consent, the study found. Given heightened concerns about potential consequences, information about how to address MPS with this subgroup is urgently needed.
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Recently we've been hearing that fewer teens are having sex, but you haven't forgotten the hysteria caused by reports of teen "rainbow parties," have you? Good, because there's a new teen sex problem that actually exists. Researchers found significant number of teen girls are having group sex, and it's often non-consensual. A new study conducted by the Boston University School of Public Health found that one in 13 girls ages 14 to 20 have engaged in "multi-person sex" MPS. Of the girls who had visitited Boston-area health clinics, 7. Among the girls in that group, 45 percent said at least one male participant hadn't used a condom, and the majority of the girls, "reported being pressured, threatened, coerced, or forced to participate in MPS at least once. Though some of the participants were actually adults, it's clear that most of the women in the study weren't college freshmen having a consensual threesome. The average age of their first group-sex experience was The age of consent is 16 in Massachusetts, so the majority of these young women had been raped.
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