For more than 3. The authors noted that "the MeToo movement has highlighted how frequently women experience sexual violence," but "no recent studies have assessed the prevalence of forced sex during girls' and women's first sexual encounter or its health consequences. Fifty percent of the girls and women who reported forced sexual initiation said they were coerced by someone larger or older.
The common thread of a perpetrator was gender, with slight differences for socioeconomic or racial characteristics. Compared with women who voluntarily consented to sex the first time, women who were forced were less likely to be white, somewhat more likely to be born outside the United States, more likely to have incomes below the poverty level and less likely to be college educated.
The average age of females forced into sex was 15, and the average age of perpetrators was 27, according to the study of 13, women ages 18 to 44 years.
That compared with 0. Girls and women who were forced the first time they had sex "had elevated rates of subsequent adverse reproductive, gynecologic, general health, and functional outcomes. In addition, they were more likely to have an unwanted first pregnancy and abortion. Open main navigation Live TV.
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