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Planned and consensual

You ask Betty whether the sex was planned and consensual.  She tells you that it doesn’t really work that way – that she was "swept off her feet" by her boyfriend.  She had thought about having sex with him and was interested, but hadn’t really planned for it and didn’t really know whether she should be having sex or not. 

 

So you ask her why teenagers such as herself have sex...