Sexual Health
The average age of first sexual activity among teenagers is 15.9 years old. What to do with precocious puberty among teenagers
Post Date May, 27 2023
One year after the follow-up survey, on May 13th, the National Health Planning Commission released the "China Family Development Report 2015" (hereinafter referred to as the report), which is also the first government led national family follow-up survey in China. The report shows that the average age for teenagers to have sexual intercourse for the first time is 15.9 years old. Experts suggest that reproductive health education be popularized from married people to teenagers.
Teenagers have open sexual attitudes but insufficient knowledge of sexual safety
The low age of abortion is closely related to the prevalence of sexual behavior and open sexual attitudes among current adolescents.
The report of China Youth Reproductive Health Survey shows that about 60% of China's unmarried adolescents are tolerant of premarital sex, and 22.4% have sex. According to a survey in Guangdong Province, 48% of college students agree that premarital sex has taken place between lovers.
Wang Yu, an art major from a university in Beijing, told reporters that every weekend, Golden Week, winter and summer vacation, hotels and small hotels around the school would be full. In his dormitory, more than half of the men sleep with her on holidays. Her former roommate unexpectedly got pregnant. In order to keep her family from knowing, he borrowed money from our classmates to give birth to a girl.
Wang Yu said that sex is now a topic of shame among college students, at least among male students. People always bring ridicule.
However, the prevalence of sexual behavior and the openness of sexual attitudes do not necessarily mean that teenagers have acquired sufficient knowledge of sexual safety.
The report on the reproductive health survey of Chinese adolescents shows that only 4.4% of unmarried adolescents have correct reproductive health knowledge. More than half of unmarried adolescents who engage in sexual activity did not use contraceptive methods during their first sexual intercourse. 21.3% of girls who engage in sexual activity have experienced pregnancy, and 4.9% have experienced multiple pregnancies.
The above survey also shows that only 14.4% of unmarried adolescents have correct AIDS prevention knowledge. Although more than 95% of adolescents said they had heard of AIDS, they were not very clear about AIDS, especially its transmission routes. In addition, female adolescents have a lower level of mastery of reproductive health knowledge than male adolescents.
The 2010 Guangdong University Student Sexual and Reproductive Health Research Report released by the Guangdong Provincial Population and Family Planning Commission also shows that only 34.3% of college students use condoms every time during various sexual activities. Unsafe sex has many health risks. Among the college students interviewed, 16.96% have ever suffered from reproductive diseases, and even some have been diagnosed with AIDS.
