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YOUTH AND ADOLESCENT

SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT

N UR S 2 8 0 J U NE 4 , 2 02 6

ADOLESCENT SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT

• Often, first romantic/sexual relationships
• Masturbation common (more so for folks with penises: 80% vs. 58%) Young people this age are learning:
• how to adapt to their changing bodies
• how to protect their sexual health Young people this age are developing:
• their sexual selves (needs, feelings, desires, identity, etc.)
• relationship skills (healthy & unhealthy)

SEXUAL DEBUT

• Many overestimate their peers’ sexual experience: 90% of students surveyed thought they had had fewer sexual partners than their peers (Stephenson 2009)
• 84% of BC students have not engaged in intercourse (AHS 2023)
• 17 is the average age of sexual debut in Canada for those who reported being sexually active (Tsui 2004)
• Most (80%) were in a romantic relationship with their partner during sexual debut (Reissing)
• Poor school attachment and poor parental relationships are strongly predictive of early sexual debut (Boyce 2003) O’Sullivan 2008

GENDER

PHYSICALLY

SATISFYING

EMOTIONALLY

SATISFYING

Cis female 35% 54% Cis male 62% 42%

ORAL SEX

• about as common as intercourse and often first occurs around the same age (Lindberg
• in BC 17% of students had ever had oral sex—down from 26% in 2008 (AHS 2023) 21% 13%

Received oral sex Given oral sex Males Females

EVER ENGAGED IN SEXUAL ACTIVITY (AHS 2018)

K I D S T H E S E D A Y S

B C A d o l e s c e n t H e a l t h S u r v e y

Youth who have ever had intercourse

Age of sexual debut

Percentage who used condoms last

intercourse

IUD use

Adolescent pregnancy

A few more things about youth & adolescents…

• Youth in the 21st^ century are often labeled as part of “hook up

culture” (sexual engagement with no/little commitment). However,

most Canadian relationships among youth are ongoing and

monogamous (15% deemed ‘experimenters’ and 85% ‘non-

experimenters’ in 2010 Netting)

• “Younger teens tend to have more sexual partners in the first year

they have sex than older teens. That means that if someone is 14- 15

years old when they become sexually active, they are more likely to

have three or more sexual partners that year, than if someone is 16-

17 years old when they start having sex.” SARAVYC

• Young women who engage in casual sex are judged more harshly

than young men (protective: confidence, higher SE class)

• 88% of males and 68% of females identified themselves as

“completely straight” (AHS 2023)