My View and Opinion on Underage Sex

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My View and Opinion on Underage Sex

Is the age of 16 the right age for sex to be legal? Many people have

their own views and beliefs and the issue is very indecisive, but is

there ever going to be an age that everyone agrees is appropriate?

This is what my speech is going to be about.

Many people have different opinions on what they think the legal age

to have sex should be. Every year more and more children are having

underage sex and this number is continuing to increase at a rapid

rate. In England, the law says it's legal and gives permission to

having sex from the age of 16 but each country has a different opinion

so the law changes around the world. It is easy to think that everyone

under the legal age is having sex, and a recent investigation revealed

that one in four women and nearly a third of men have sex before they

are 16 - the legal age of consent. A major survey shows that teenagers

who leave school early are less likely to practice safe sex and are

more likely to become pregnant.

I believe that no matter what age sex should be considered legal;

teenagers are still going to ignore it. Someone of any age will have

sex when they want to, whatever age. That's nature for you... Neither

situation is ideal, there is no ideal situation. Possibly a law should

not exist at all? I think more of an age-gap system would be better,

allowing anyone of any age to experiment and express any sexuality

they have with people their own age, yet protect them from the abuse

of older people. The age children start to become aware if sex is

gradually getting younger and younger. Sex education lessons are

starting in many primary school...

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...ack of contraception, causing

the country many more problems than the already have.

Religion can play a huge part in whether the age to consent to sex is

right or not. In the town of Lubbock in Texas, where a lot of people

take the bible literally, the church is powerful enough to ensure that

teenagers receive no education about sex, and defiantly none about

safe sex. Their teachers tell them that condoms don't work and that

sex brings diseases and that self-discipline is the only option. Could

this stop people having sex?

There are many reasons why people decide to have sex. Could be for

fun, for love, peer pressure or just because they think that it is the

thing to be doing, but is the legal age going to stop people having

sex? The answer is simply NO. Therefore I believe there should be no

age limit for sex.

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