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Enjoyment and emotionally negative reactions in minor–adult versus minor–peer and adult–adult first postpubescent coitus: A secondary analysis of the Kinsey data;
Arch Sex Behav . 2014 Feb;43(2):285-97.;
43(2), 285-297
Using the original Kinsey sample, enjoyment and emotionally negative reactions to first postpubescent coitus were examined in relation to whether the coitus occurred as
- a legal minor (aged under 18) with an adult (5 or more years older),
- a minor with a peer (within 4 years of age), or
- an adult with an adult (both 18 or older).
These responses were further examined in subdivisions of the minor–adult and adult–adult categories.
Given widely held professional and lay assumptions that minor–adult sex is intrinsically traumatic or aversive, tested was whether reactions to minor–adult coitus were characteristically negative, irrespective of gender, and distinctly more negative than minor–peer and adult–adult coitus.
In general:
- minors with adults enjoyed the event as much as minors with peers or adults with adults;
- boys (i.e., male minors) enjoyed it substantially more than girls, irrespective of partner age; and
- minors with adults did not have more emotionally negative reactions than the other groups.
Younger boys (14 and under) with women (... mean age difference: 10.90 years), compared to men with peer-aged women ( ... mean age difference: 0.18 years),
- enjoyed the coitus a great deal (the top scale value) significantly more often (63 % vs. 44 %) and had emotionally negative reactions no more often (15 % vs. 12 %).
Younger girls (14 and under) with men (... mean age difference: 13.23 years), compared to women with peer-aged men (... mean age difference: 1.41 years),
- enjoyed the coitus a great deal at the same rate (17 % vs. 18 %) and
- had emotionally negative reactions no more often (18 % vs. 16 %).
Assumptions of characteristic trauma or aversiveness in minor–adult first coitus, as well as gender equivalence in response, were contradicted.
Using the original Kinsey sample, enjoyment and emotionally negative reactions to first postpubescent coitus were examined in relation to whether the coitus occurred as
- a legal minor (aged under 18) with an adult (5 or more years older),
- a minor with a peer (within 4 years of age), or
- an adult with an adult (both 18 or older).
These responses were further examined in subdivisions of the minor–adult and adult–adult categories.
Given widely held professional and lay assumptions that minor–adult sex is intrinsically traumatic or aversive, tested was whether reactions to minor–adult coitus were characteristically negative, irrespective of gender, and distinctly more negative than minor–peer and adult–adult coitus.
In general:
- minors with adults enjoyed the event as much as minors with peers or adults with adults;
- boys (i.e., male minors) enjoyed it substantially more than girls, irrespective of partner age; and
- minors with adults did not have more emotionally negative reactions than the other groups.
Younger boys (14 and under) with women (... mean age difference: 10.90 years), compared to men with peer-aged women ( ... mean age difference: 0.18 years),
- enjoyed the coitus a great deal (the top scale value) significantly more often (63 % vs. 44 %) and had emotionally negative reactions no more often (15 % vs. 12 %).
Younger girls (14 and under) with men (... mean age difference: 13.23 years), compared to women with peer-aged men (... mean age difference: 1.41 years),
- enjoyed the coitus a great deal at the same rate (17 % vs. 18 %) and
- had emotionally negative reactions no more often (18 % vs. 16 %).
Assumptions of characteristic trauma or aversiveness in minor–adult first coitus, as well as gender equivalence in response, were contradicted.
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Sexual consent and human rights;
Thymos;
4(2), 99-102,
Oct 01 2010
The basic human right to sexual autonomy and self-determination encompasses two sides: it enshrines both the right to engage in wanted sexuality on the one hand, and the right to be free and protected from unwanted sexuality, from sexual abuse and sexual violence on the other.
This concept elaborated by the European Court of Human Rights, in the light of European legal consensus, suggests that the age of consent for sexual relations (outside of relationships of authority and outside of pornography and prostitution) should be set between 12 and 16 years. In any event the age of criminal responsibility should be the same as the age of sexual consent.
The basic human right to sexual autonomy and self-determination encompasses two sides: it enshrines both the right to engage in wanted sexuality on the one hand, and the right to be free and protected from unwanted sexuality, from sexual abuse and sexual violence on the other.
This concept elaborated by the European Court of Human Rights, in the light of European legal consensus, suggests that the age of consent for sexual relations (outside of relationships of authority and outside of pornography and prostitution) should be set between 12 and 16 years. In any event the age of criminal responsibility should be the same as the age of sexual consent.