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Non-voluntary sexual experiences include forced intercourse, unwanted sexual contact or abuse, and unwanted but voluntary sexual intercourse. Oftentimes, intercourse is non-voluntary particularly among younger teens (Abma, Driscoll & Moore, 1998). Moore, Nord, and Peterson (1989) found that 7 percent of females and males between 18 and 22 had experienced forced intercourse, and about half of all females' non-voluntary intercourse had occurred prior to age 14. Erickson and Rapkin (1991) studied a sample of Los Angeles middle school and high school youth. Eighteen percent of the females in their sample reported having had an unwanted sexual experience. Most of these sexual experiences occurred prior to the age of 16 - 39 percent occurred prior to age 13 and half occurred between the ages of 13 and 16. Having a history of sexual abuse is associated with an increased risk of sexual coercion during junior high and high school (Small & Kearns, 1993). Non-voluntary intercourse may increase the risk of an adolescent pregnancy (Boyer & Fine, 1992; Laumann, Smith, Besharov, Gardiner, & Hoff, 1996; Roosa et al., 1997; Stock, et al., 1997), early first intercourse, multiple partners, and failure to use contraception (Stock, et al, 1997). Valois et al. (1999) found an association between having experienced date rape or dating violence was associated with an increased number of sexual partners among white female students and less so among white male, black female and black male students in grades nine through twelve. |
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