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'My friends have been pressured'

Jasmine [not her real name] is 14-years-old. She spoke to BBC Scotland's health correspondent Eleanor Bradford about her sexual experience.


I'm still a virgin - there have been times where I could have had sex but I just said no.

The BBC's Eleanor Bradford speaks to Jasmine (not her real name)
The BBC's Eleanor Bradford speaks to Jasmine (not her real name)

I'm not ready yet.

The boys screw up their faces and get angry about it, but I just shrug it off and ignore them.

Sometimes I feel under pressure to do it but I think I'll wait.

I'm not sure if I'd wait for years until I met someone nice, I'd probably want to get it over and done with as well.

When I've been drinking there have been a lot of times where I've felt out of control but I've got a good mate and she always watches me.

A lot of my friends have been pressurised into it and have been drunk when they did it.

I can talk to my sisters about these kind of things, but not my parents.



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