Consequences in Sexual Relationships

Have you ever wondered if the voting age could be lowered? Well there is a huge Controversy on it. Why? Because many young adults, or teenagers, live and have the same responsibility as an adult would .In many peoples opinion, it should be lowered .Many people think the same way, young voices matter.

I don’t believe that there is a right or wrong way to deal with sexuality, but I feel it is important to educate youth about sex so that they can make a decision for themselves. I feel the parents are the most important people to do this difficult job. If children feel comfortable discussing these topics with their parents then they are more likely to make appropriate and responsible decisions through this very challenging time in their

Bill Hughley, Executive Director of the Rockdale Coalition for Children and Families, said “state wide statistics illustrate that high risk sexual behavior among teenagers is a growing problem as young teenagers begin to experiment with sex with people much older than them (Jones, par 4). Many of these teens are engaging in sex not realizing that if both partners are not within the same age bracket they could be committing a crime. There is an exception for teenagers convicted of statutory rape and child molestation included as part of so called “Romeo and Juliet Laws” teenagers as long as they are not more than four years apart-to be charged only with misdemeanors and they would not be requires to register as sex

Teens also feel that social media and texting is outside the law so they look past bullying, sexting, and other illegal acts as against the law. If they are allowed to consent to sex underage, many will not understand because they are considerably the

Martha Kempner, author of the article “What’s Wrong With Our Age of Consent Laws”, states “Age of consent laws is meant to protect young people from exploitation by adults, but in too many instances they send 18-year-old boys to jail for having consensual sex with their 15-year-old girlfriends. The boys then end up on sex offender registries for life along side rapists and pedophiles. Should we really be legislating teen sex?” There are also many inconsistencies amongst state to state regarding these laws, differing between ages 16 and 18 as the legal consent age, causes much confusion for couples in relationships, such as one Kempner stated, as well as the opportunity for the exploitation of 16 year olds by adults who live in states in which the laws have been lowered. Now the age of 25 for sexual consent laws, is likely too drastic, however we propose that there should be at least an equal age amongst all states, to eliminate any further unnecessary confusion, embarrassment, and

It is not uncommon to turn on MTV or open a magazine and not see models in revealing clothing, music videos where the artist is almost naked or even TV shows were teens are having sex. This sends a message to our youth that it is common and is what most people their age are doing. Another problem is their own parents. Many parents are naïve to what their children are doing and do not take the initiative to talk to them and take them to do the doctor and get them on some form of contraceptive.

Our generation of teens has become too prone of sexual activity with less worry of the consequences it comes along with. Most teenagers, ages 15 through 19, are sexually active, approximately 30 percent being of the ages 15 and 16. Many young teens have not been exposed to all the repercussions, such as risk of pregnancy and STDs, that sex can result in. Our schools need to provide better sex education courses and require students to receive credit in them.

In the scene from the boys’ viewpoint, I used posture and movement to show the relaxed and bored behaviour by standing with my shoulders slumped, hunched over back as I boringly stared at my phone whilst I noisily chewed gum. Aastha was positioned in the centre middle as a leader whereas I, Leah and Ceri stood around as her followers, to show Aastha had the authority in the group. Suddenly, Aastha shouted, “Oi, lads get here.” causing us to attentively traced our eyes to her before we eagerly strode forward to get a peek at the image on her phone. There is a pause of two seconds before Ceri and I broke into a cacophony of excitement, rapidly bashing movements into each other and wildly waved our arms with wide grins to emphasise our rowdy, obnoxious behaviour. This showed that boys aren’t afraid of being shy about their honest thoughts as we ogled the image and made tactless comments on the ‘Hotness’ of the girl. However, the girls’ scene juxtaposed this by Leah stood in an upright position with Aastha, Ceri and I kneeled down to show the hierarchy and superiority of Leah in the group. We were all huddled together stared directly forward and mimed makeup actions, to create a smaller proxemic gap and reflect how as girls we like to be together in tight packs; more secretive and judgemental in fear of our reputation being ruined. When I first saw the image, I showed my shock through a few second

Have you ever been restricted from certain privileges because the law revolves around a specific age? America’s way of governing young adults and their method of placing restrictions on certain ages is arbitrary and irrational. The article, “What is the Age of Responsibility?” by Alan Greenblatt explains how young adults are receiving mixed and confusing signals about the true age of maturity. The age of maturity should be 18 for many reasons.

However, in my experience, this would create some significant issues in regards to our young people. First, sex-offenders know full well the age of consent and will cross state lines with individuals who are underage in one state to another where they are not. Moreover, the use mental manipulation to gain consent from young victims from difficult backgrounds. Secondly, the issue remains at what age do they have the understanding of the potential ramifications of sex? The answer is likely that if they are under the age of eighteen they look at life in the moment with very little regard for their future; So, the probability is that the age of consent should be eighteen years of

On top of that, laws regarding Statutory Rape are different from one state to the next. “30 states currently consider 16 to be the age of consent; the remaining 20 states set it either at 17 or 18.” (Schwiegershausen “What You Should Know About Statutory-Rape Laws”). Some states allow the use of mistaken age or a small age gap (Romeo and Juliet Laws) as a defense against charges of Statutory Rape, and some states do not. This causes a lot of confusion as to what the laws are, especially for those moving from state to state a lot. Many people (minors especially) do not think it is an issue because if it’s consensual, why should age matter? The median age difference in Statutory Rape cases is 6 years. There are plenty of people who are married and have kids who are 6 or less years apart in age. Often because of this belief they do not take the time to research and discover the laws, and then they end up in a legal mess because it never occurred to them that consensual sexual activities would send one, or both, of them to prison. Those who understand Statutory Rape laws state that if it were truly consensual it wouldn’t be prosecuted, but there is a huge flaw in this line of thinking. If the law states that it is illegal to have sex with a person under the age of consent, and the law assumes that if it’s consensual it will not be brought to the court; that

Some young adults, who have been through this pressure, think that having sex as teenagers is just too young.

As children grow, they accumulate knowledge over the years about a variety of subjects to prepare them for the future. Children learn from parents, schools, life experiences, what they watch and other influences around them, and it can be either positive learning or negative learning. There is one subject that is difficult to teach and have control over because of misunderstandings, lack of teaching, and publicity. Sex education has been a major debate for children under eighteen, because there are some parents that want it taught in schools and others that do not because of different reasons. There are currently eighteen states and the District of Columbia that require schools to provide sex education and thirty-two that do not require

The prevalence of having had sexual intercourse before age 13 years was higher among male (8.3%) than female (3.1%) students(Kann, Laura, Steve Kinchen, and Shari L. Shanklin, et al.). Most schools do not even start the education until around 9th grade when a student is in most cases already over the age of thirteen. Children are starting to have sex at earlier ages so with reason schools need to start educating them at earlier ages. Students who are starting to have sex at such a young age need to know that the biggest risks of having sex at such a young age are unintended pregnancy, human immunodeficiency virus(HIV), and STIs.

First of all, the main reason children have sex prematurely is because they are curious. Students lack knowledge about sex because they haven’t been taught about it, however, when children know the consequences behind their actions and the risks they are taking they less likely to want to have sex. If we take the time to show kids what it is like to take care of a child as a teenager