Why Young Boys & Girls Play Sex

• Youth feel they have no choice or control

  • Biology
    • Sexual urges
    • ‘Spoiled’ for future
  • Peer norms and rejection
  • What boyfriends & girlfriends expect (sexual script)
  • Community & family norms
  • For girls:
    • a way to get things they want & need
    • She will be forced if she refuses

• Doesn’t matter what they want or decide, they are ‘forced’ to play sex