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Rural minor girls easy pray of sex trap: Govt Study

By Govt study
Updated Sunday, 24 July 2011 19:07:39 - IST (UTC +5:30)

NEW DELHI: A study has revealed that rural minor girls are more prone to sex exploitation than urban. The are easy pray for premarital sex. The study claimed that a percentage of women aged 15-24 years is higher than men who have had sex before reaching the age of 15 years. The study was done under Union health ministry in the six states of Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Tamil Nadu.
Around 15% of young men and 4% young women interviewed admitted premarital sex. Shockingly, 24% of the women had premarital sex for the first time before the age of 15, compared to 9% men. In most cases gullible girls are lured by aged men and trapped for sex. In many cases the man is close relative, neighbor or family acquaintance and unsuspected minors become their easy pray. After first experience of sex, arousal of desire make them easy target. Easy availability of pregnancy preventive devices help them to go stray.
The study found that menace of premarital sex has also spread in rural areas.
The report was prepared by Population Council, Delhi, and International Institute of Population Sciences, Mumbai. The data shows that, youth in rural areas were also more likely than those in urban areas to have initiated a pre-marital romantic relationship at age 15 (29% compared to 17% among young men, and 46% compared to 31% among young women). Around 6% of rural youth compared to 1% of urban youth had their sexual debut before age 18. Over 26% of young men and 40% of young women reported that they had spent time alone with their first romantic partner at age 15 or below.
Many of the pre-marital sexual experiences reported by the youth were risky. Around 25% of young men and 21% of young women reporting pre-marital sex had sex with more than one partner. Moreover, consistent condom use was limited only 13% of young men and 3% of young women reported condom use in all pre-marital encounters.
While sexual relations were generally unsafe across all the six states, some notable state-level differences were found. For example, among young men, multiple partner relations were reported by 32% in five of the six states, but by relatively few (14%) in Rajasthan.
Releasing the study, Union health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said young people in India face multiple risks associated with sexual and reproductive health that include pregnancy related morbidity and mortality, delayed abortion seeking, unmet contraceptive need and lack of knowledge to make informed decisions.

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