Quarter of UK women had underage sex

About 27% of women between 16 and 24 had sex before reaching the age of consent, according to the annual survey of health

More than a quarter of young women today say their first sexual intercourse when they were under 16, a higher proportion than in any previous generation asked about sex with minors in an annual survey of the health officer.

About 27% of women aged between 16 and 24, said they had sex before age 16, according to the Health Survey for England. Fewer men in the same age group - 22% - said they were under 16 years old the first time I had sex

The results of the last survey in 2010 suggest that sexual behavior has changed over the generations, according to the National Health Information Center, which publishes the annual report, with the proportion of women increasingly early sexual activity over time, a trend that is not in men

The median age at which men and women become sexually active 17. A significant proportion of youth aged 16 to 24 years had not had sex - 26% of young women and 32% of men

One in five 16 to 24 years reported having 10 or more sexual partners -. With more men (27%) than women (13%) reporting 10 or more

Men reported an average of 9.3 sexual partners, while women reported an average of 4.7. However, 17% of women and 24% of men said they had one.

Women were more likely to have been diagnosed by a doctor for a sexually transmitted infection - 12% of women aged 16 to 69 years, said he had an infection, compared with 9% of men the same age. Equal proportions of men and women - 2% - had been diagnosed more than once

youth are more likely than those who are older have been tested for sexually transmitted chlamydia infections (27% men and 44% of women between 16 and 24, compared with 6% of men and 12% of women aged 45 to 54).

• Rebecca Findlay, spokeswoman for sexual health charity FPA, said: "This tends to reflect more research on the subject, but we must remember that most people under 16 are not sexually active
• "Society has changed dramatically over the last 50 years and the nature of the relationship also. Education and information to ensure the sexual health needs of young people and help them resist have sex before they are ready, which is why, given these data the NHS Information Centre, there is an urgent need for legal sex and relationships education in schools. "

Shadow Health Minister Diane Abbott said the increasing number of girls who have sex with children is alarming. "There is a phenomenon free. Laying the challenges of public health policy and social challenges," he said.

"The underlying cause must be the" pornification "of culture and sexualization of girls increasingly pre-teens. Girls Too many young people are absorbing popular culture around this value only as sexual objects. inevitably act on this idea.

"The government must respond to the spiral of sex with minors, not meaningless plans to teach abstinence, but with a better education PSHE [personal, social, health and economic] in schools for children. "
She said she also feared that the government's reforms would mean the local government to take responsibility for sexual health. "In times of economic crisis in a hurry, it could mean cuts in services it offers and what is worse sex minor figures in the future," he said.

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