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 What is a good age to start having sex? (16)

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What is a good age to start having sex?

I say twenty years old  because at 19, you are a teen.

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When two human animals both are at an age where they have developed the psychological and emotional maturity to be able to deal with what they are doing in the first place and when they both are realistic in their maturity to have the ability to be able to manage the consequences of an STI or an accidental pregnancy

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Fair enough, but do you have a certain age? .

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I have met some very aware young people and some very dumb ones so I am really not sure where to pin the tail on the donkey.

Age of maturity is a relative factor and more often individualised, however, we have to put a date on it for when young people have rights, and some young people are maturing earlier than when I was a teenager and the age was 18.

I may be old fashioned but I still think that is a good place to start.

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I lost my virginity at 15. Upon investigation of others my age and older I found out that that age was very common. I see nothing wrong with losing your virginity at that age. It's an age where your sexual hormones are at it's peak and your learning about social life in h.s. holding on to your virginity for too long can create unhealthy masturbatory addiction,social akwardness, uncomfortability with the opposite sex, and other things. Take it from me kid. Lose your virginity, speak to women, have fun,be safe,and realize that whatever you think you know about love is wrong, then you'll be ok.

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Yeah I was 13 when I lost my virginity. .

Amritangshu(892) Disputed
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Well for a liberal it should be around 10..hahaha really you lost it when you were 13,before that were you a true virgin?

I think ideally 16, although I'm a week short of 16 at the moment if I had the opportunity now I would take it, not that I am a rent boy or anything. I think 20 is an unrealistic age to expect for people to wait to and I have never even understood why in parts of America the age of consent is 18. In Britain we are not that old fashioned.

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Fair enough. I think that is too young, but I respect your point of view. What makes you choose that age?

After you get married because God would want it :) God wants you to save it for the special one!

Well the moment you feel sexually-mature probably at around 18 but now due to the overgrowth of the adrenal cortex in most children ,probably around 16 odd.

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Fair enough. That is young, but not too young. .

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When condomman says so

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A good age for it is: 20. At 20 years old, you almost know everything and it's time for you to go out into the big world.

Skaruts(195) Disputed
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Only to find out you still know nothing at that age? I've been 20, and so have many of my friends. Responsibility doesn't come magically with age. It comes with experience.

A friend of mine who lost her virginity at 33, had to take the morning-after-pill, because, indeed, she knew nothing of what she thought she knew, and condoms do break sometimes.

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According to biologists, sexual organs are ready at around 12 (since the day you wake up wet). That means you're good to go, and the reality is that that's as good an age as any.

The only caveat is that if your parents haven't been good parents and at that age you're not already informed and aware about what your body can do and how it's done safely, then you're taking the risk of doing something stupid. But the fact is, you'll do it either way if the hunger strikes, so your parent better have done their homework.

Most of my friends started having sex at twelve, thirteen and fourteen. Life with that is as normal as any. Sex is not a scary hydra, it doesn't give nightmares to kids, and it's not more dangerous than them crossing roads on their own.

No amount of imposed subjective rhetoric is able to refute biology and the reality of our nature, and the kids' needs.