How old do you have to be to have sex?!
Question:
How old do you have to be to have sex?
Answers:
If you are talking about the physical capability of engaging in sexual activity, then individuals are able to engage as early as four or five years old.
From a legal (and ethically moral) standpoint, it is sixteen in the U.K. for all, homosexual as well as heterosexual intercourse, although, a clause is in place that disallows persons in a position of 'trust' to engage with an individual if there is an age gap of more than three years.
Personally, I was sexually active from the age of eight and although it was wrong legally and ethically, I don't feel I have come to any real harm from it.
We are all sexual beings but our children are being denied proper guidance from their own parents and from the education system the rights and wrongs of sexual health matters.
We all do it. If not yet, some day we will, whether with someone, or by ourselves. No point in hushing it up in front of the kids. A parent, or parents need to take the initiative in guiding their children on sexual matters in a matter of fact way because they'll only be misled and end up confused as they grow up.
Sexual relations are for a purpose, well a few purposes really, when you think of it; procreation, fun, emotional need and...well...just for the hell of it!
A child cannot handle the complicated emotions that arise out of sexual relations, that's why there are laws in force to protect them until they are of an age when they can decide for themselves. But even then, most young people still can't handle the consequences of the sex act in itself!!