Teen girls who engage in group sex are often coerced, study says

More than 7% of teen girls have engaged in multi-person sex, a new study reports – and half of them said they were threatened or forced into the act.

The most shocking detail of the study, which was published in the Journal of Urban Health: Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine, is the number of women who reported having been coerced into multi-person sex.

Of the 7.3% who admitted to having multi-person sex (MPS), 52% reported being pressured, and 43% reported being threatened or forced.

Emily Rothman, an associate professor of community health sciences at Boston University Health Medical Center, conducted the study by polling 328 females between the ages of 14 and 20, at community or school health clinics in the Boston area.

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