Authors: Diana Warren and Neha Swami
Key findings
• By 16–17, around two thirds of teenagers had had a romantic relationship and around one third had had sexual intercourse.
• Of 16-17 year-olds who were sexually active, around one in five said that they had done nothing to prevent sexually transmitted infections and around one in 12 said that they had done nothing to prevent pregnancy the last time they had sex.
• Condoms were the most common method to prevent pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections (around 75%).
• Boys were much more likely than girls to have intentionally viewed pornography.
• Almost half of girls and one third of boys aged 16–17 years said that they had experienced some form of unwanted sexual behaviour towards them in the past 12 months.
• One in eight boys and around one in 12 girls reported that they had engaged in unwanted sexual behaviour towards someone else.
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