STIs among young Teens

According to the researchers, they are highly encouraged the parents of the teens to find out and be cautious about their teens having sex at a young age, not just because they do so, according to the author of the research in Seoul Korea. In their country, he added, the parents are preventing the conversation about sex and sex education. This method of the Korean parents to raise their kids hasn’t changed through the years, even if the kids are more likely to have access to the sexual materials at a young age, he told Reuters according to an email.

The researchers are using the data from the national web based survey of the youth risk behaviors held yearly by the Korean centers for Disease Control & Prevention. There is a total of around 525,000 children between 7th to 12th grades who were able to complete the survey between the year 2007 & 2013, but there were just 22,000 of them who has responded while around 4% of those went through sexual intercourse, however only few responses were measured for the new research. The kids have reported that when they had their very first sexual activity with the replies coming from an elementary student to around 12th grader.

Around 7% of the teens who have sexual intercourse said that they had suffered from an STI like syphilis, HIV, gonorrhea and chlamydia? The age of the kids during their first sexual activity went down, the ratio of the teens who had an STI developed and went up, more so for boys. This data is according to the results taken from the Journal of Sexual Medicine.  When you compare the kids who have had their first intercourse, they were only 12th graded, for example, those whose 1st sexual activity was in the 7th grade were around 3xs more than likely to develop an STI.

The growing rate of STI in young teens

They thought that the kids who have had sexual activity at a young age without proper sexual education may more likely to have high possibility of having sex, he added. Early sexual activity may mean their sexually active period is much longer and during those times, they may have different sexual partners. There is another research conducted in 2012 among teens from South Korea, who had their first sexual activity when they were 15 years old only. In the study, on the other hand, some of the teens who went through the surveys said that they had their first sexual intercourse before they went to the middle school, which means that they are more likely to be at the age of 9 or even younger.