Under-15 sex: Indian girls beat boys

Under-15 sex: Indian girls beat boys

In India, eight per cent of girls between 15 and 19 years had sex before turning 15 as compared to three per cent of the boys in the same age group, a survey conducted in 2010 says. This trend holds for most of the developing world and in countries in the Caribbean and Latin America, 17 per cent of girls had sex before they turned 15 years old. These are the results of a Unicef study on adolescents carried out in 2010, titled Progress for Children. Since 2010 is just a little over one year back, it can be safely assumed that the trends have not drastically changed.

Early sex can result in early childbearing, and it increases the risk of HIV infection. In 2010, out of every 1000 Indian women who became mothers, there were 45 girls aged between 15 and 19 years.

This is extremely worrisome for India because an abysmally low percentage of girls (19 per cent) have comprehensive knowledge about HIV-AIDS and the need to take protection as compared to boys (35 per cent) of the same age group.

About 63 per cent of boys and 1 per cent of girls aged between 15 and 19 years had sex in the last 12 months of 2010, according to the report. Out of them, only 31 per cent of boys and 20 per cent of girls used protection (condoms). So the vast majority of Indian boys and girls are having unprotected sex. This does not speak well of the Government's long-running campaign and NACO's activities.

India, as of 2010, had 49000 boys and 46000 girls in the age group of 10 to 19 years who have tested positive for HIV.

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What is the correlation between family economic status and the figures given in the article?

Mostly these are result of Child marriage still prevalent in rural areas of certain states in India.

"Indian girls beat boys" - now that would hold true if these girls were doing it voluntarily. There is child marriage, and also, involuntary indulgence. Just rephrasing the title will give a fairer picture, but hey, let's keep this one; it's attract commentators.

Bill, you have hit the nail on the right head. This has all to do with the economic status and the pressures from the society. This would be more prevelant in rural areas and in families with extreme low income levels,

may be due to early marriages which is common in India..
its obvious that in our country girls gets married earlier than men so the report s correct

This is also because of INTERNET and MOBILE PHONES which are easily accessible for the girls and boys to watch PORN and SEX RELATED content. I feel that INTERNET and MULTIMEDIA MOBILE PHONES must be restricted to people below the age group of 21.

I am 19 and i want to express condolence to your children's who will be left out of this modern world ...

A large majority of those would be upwardly mobile rich families, I am sure.

If there is large difference between % of the girls and boys of the same age, what does that imply? Who does these girls have sex with? This is a very serious problme,

WTF now a days girls are becoming more horny than boys .
well simple example if u look around u would see girls have more boy friends than girl friends than boys who have less girlfriends than boyfriends

if more girls are having sex as compared to boys then with whom they are having it O.o ??? kill those bastard studs..polygamy sucks

well that's the fact dont you think girl dont had sex in 90 or 80 , 70 they do .

now everything is open because of media.

sex is part of life .

Untill we human beings dont make an issue out sex and stop makeing it anything more than "play". You will never be able to stop Rape, Molestation, perversion or even wars.

So they had sex and if they enjoyed it who gives a crap.

yes but thing should be behind the door and we should consider our religion .

there should be freedom but with some limit for example we like to ride a fast moving bike but bike is useless without break .

Ya, religious people make sure the doors are closed when they have adulterous sex or molest children, surely the doors aids to hide all sorts of hypocrisy that religious people commit behind closed doors. When you say it should be behind the doors that itself has made it something wrong and to be hidden. That will create a viscous cycles of "dont do it" and ends up with it becoming evil or a crime. Till sex becomes something totally and completely acceptable you can never live with yourself and that causes all the guilt, anger, frustration, perversion and depression. These are all caused because of the rules and doors religion puts on us, sex is like a naturally flowing river, if you put a stone before it then it will flow in perverse and unnatural ways and that is what is happening.

A bike needs brake and humans will apply a break when there is danger, but with the break pressed hard how will the bike move? Religion makes masturbation a crime and Chasity a virtue. Who is apply the brake then?