Sex for some guys is not about whether you are in a relationship or not, it is about taking the opportunity to do it," admits 16-year-old Jermaine* from south London.
He says that young guys feel under so much pressure to have sex that laws such as the age of consent mean little in reality.
Equally worrying is the way many young men treat girls when they are in relationship.
A survey carried out by the NSPCC in September 2009 found that a third of 13- to 17-year-old girls had suffered unwanted sexual acts, a quarter had been slapped, punched or beaten by their boyfriends and one in six had felt pressured to have sex by their boyfriends.
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