Lad culture? How British teenage girls outdo boys for sex and drunkenness
By John Bingham, Telegraph:
World Health Organisation study shows teenage girls in UK more likely than boys to have sex or get drunk – or at least admit to it.
They are the kind of vices it is traditionally assumed teenage boys will exaggerate and girls underplay.
But according to a major new international study, British teenage girls not only have some of the highest rates of under-age sex and drunkenness in Europe but are even outdoing boys.
According to the four-yearly report published by the World Health Organisation, 15-year-old girls in Wales are more than 50 per cent more likely to say they have had sex than boys of the same age.
In England girls are 28 per cent more likely than boys to give the same answer while in Scotland the gender gap was narrower but still noticeable.
The British findings stand out in the WHO’s of Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) study as the only areas in which girls are significantly more likely than boys to say they have had sex by 15.
English and Welsh girls 24 were respectively 24 per cent and 21 per cent more likely than boys of the same age to admit having been drunk at least twice. Scottish girls were also more likely than boys to have been drunk at 15 although the gap is not considered statistically significant.
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