Were they real lucky, they'd achieve the exalted status of membership in the Sexy Bitches or the Big Pricks. May Not Speak Out Now. It's physical assault and should be punished as the felony it is. But after what came out at the trial about the culture at even a religious high school, I'm convinced that maintaining the age of consent as 18 is totally unrealistic. Children today reach puberty nearly two years earlier than children did just 50 years ago.
Masturbation is practiced by virtually all males and most females.
The vast majority of boys, and a slightly smaller majority of girls, experience sexual intercourse before they graduate from high school. It's true that the most recent survey of adolescent sexual practice showed a decline in the number of teens engaging in sexual intercourse. But that's not because of the religious right's promotion of abstinence education, which is tolerated with at best a rejecting bemusement by most kids. Rather, in large part it's due to the increase in oral sex now commonly engaged in by those as young as 14. Teenage hormones have always raged.