Teenagers

In the first of our four-part series on teenage sex, Áilín Quinlan finds that although children and young teens are becoming sexually active much earlier, they seem unaware of the risks.

FORGET the wallflowers hovering nervously at the edge of the dance floor; at today's teenage discos the name of the game is 'Beat The Slapper'.

In practice it means how many boys a girl can 'score' with in a night. The flip side is the male version, called 'Beat the Jock'.