Between 3.6 per cent and 7.6 per cent of U.S. boys reported having sexual intercourse before the age of 13 in a study published on Monday, but the prevalence varies widely by race, ethnicity and geographic location.
looked at the results of two surveys to determine how common it is for U.S. boys to have sex before the age of 13.
The proportion varied widely by geography -- from five percent in San Francisco to 12 per cent in Houston, Texas, to 25 per cent in Memphis, Tennessee. In the survey of 7,000 males between the ages of 15 and 24, the numbers were 10.5 per cent for non-Hispanic blacks, 2.2 per cent for non-Hispanic whites, 3.4 per cent for Hispanics and 1.6 per cent for others.
"For young men of color, particularly black males, racist stereotypes of hypermasculinity may also contribute to expectations of early sexual initiation."
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