Tuesday, December 20, 2011

MPS - a Dangerous Growing Trend in Underage American Girls

[ via Mail Online ] 19 Dec

Researchers at Boston University's School of Public Health found one in 13 teenage girls reported having a 'multi-person sex' (MPS) experience - often initiated by boyfriends who had been watching pornography.

The average age of the girls who had experienced MPS was just 15.6 years old - under the legal age of consent in Massachusetts, which is 16.

The study, of 328 girls from deprived areas in Boston who had gone to sexual health clinics, raises concerns about the influence of pornography on teenagers. The unsafe MPS is raising concerns over the spread of sexually transmitted diseases.


Emily Rothman, associate professor of community health sciences at the school, told philadelphiaweekly.com: 'Girls were five times more likely to engage in MPS if they or their boyfriends had watched porn.
Read Mail Online for more.

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