Pressure on teen girls to be sexually active is intrusive, unfair and damaging

SO, you’re a girl, and a virgin.

Pressure on teen girls to be sexually active is intrusive, unfair and damaging

Welcome to social and cultural intrusion, adult pressure, peer pressure, internal pressure (all those hormones) and legal pressure (don’t do it before you’re 16, or you’re in trouble).

Do it and it might end up on the internet — not the actual event (although anything is possible), but the knowledge that you have finally had sex.

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