How Old Is Old Enough? Underage Sex- My View and Opinions.

        The laws on sex are there to protect young people from abuse or from having sex before they are ready. Different countries do have different laws but in this country it is considered to be that people are not ready to have sex until they are 16. Laws are there to protect people and not to try and spoil their fun.

        Teenagers feel the need that they have to be more grown up and feel having sex is the way to seem older than they are.

        If a person under the age 16 were to have sex, many of them would say they regret it; not just the person they had it with, but the reasons they had sex too. Two in five men and four in five women who are now in their late teens and early twenties who lost their virginity at ages 13 and 14 wished they waited longer. Overall, women are twice as likely as men to regret their first experience.        

        The average person has sex because they feel physically ready for it, so how can there be an age on something that can differ with every person?

        Perhaps one reason why people are having sex illegally is because protection against pregnancy and diseases is being sold to people under 16 for safety reasons. If that’s not encouraging underage sex then what is? Information shows that children from the age of 12 know about the protection available to be taken and the risks that are involved. If this is the case, why does the government think they are going to just ignore having sex for another 4years? The reality of it is that they won’t!

        Although I do believe that the legal age for sex isn’t correct, there are a few reasons that having the legal age dropped or got ridden of would be wrong. Firstly, it would be much harder to convict pedophiles and rapists; a pedophile is and adult that’s sexually attracted to children. If the age were to be dropped, it would not seem at all wrong for them to have sex with that child and therefore the name “Pedophile” would not be able to be used.

        Also if more people were having sex at a younger age, even using protection there would be an increase in STD’s. If there was to be no legal age to be allowed to have sex then should people question whether there should be a legal age to become a parent?

        Sex should be about respect and trust, and loving someone enough to want to be physically close with them; however, it can also be about power, disrespect, violence and abuse. I do think there should be a change in law depending on the different countries, as I think that it just confuses people and makes it a lot more difficult to understand the general laws.

        In countries that are less economically developed, underage sex is ignored and protection is rarely used. As a result if this, many people suffer sexually transmitted diseases at a much higher rate. The total population will increase due to lack 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.