Peer pressure is always a difficult thing to deal with, teenagers feel out of their minds if they don't engage in sexual intercourse, they believe everyone does except them. Peer pressure could come from anywhere, such as a person's friends or people he or she knows, a boyfriend or girlfriend, and movies or television shows. Boys especially are pressured by their friends to try to involve a girl in sexual relations with them. “One in three boys aged 15 to 17 say they feel pressure to have sex, often from male friends. Teenage girls feel less pressure: only 23% said they felt such coercion. Researchers interviewed 1,854 subjects between the ages of 13 and 24 in a national survey” (Allen). It is very important for adolescent boys to achieve a high social status and do everything to feel accepted by other boys and girls. Direct pressure from the individual to have sex with another person, be it their boyfriend, girlfriend or friend, would go to high levels of peer pressure using enticements and soft words towards the individual. Some even go to higher measures saying that in this relationship to prove your love for me we have to have sex. Social status plays an important role in peer pressure for both males and females. For men it's more about what friends might think of you if you haven't had sex with a girl at or near the same time as them. And for girls it's more about gaining acceptance from their partners, love and intimacy. This remote cause could lead a person to engage in sexual activity even if they had no desire to do so. Another small and remote cause that leads teenagers to have sex at a young age could be that the child has grown up in a domineering, overcontrolling and overprotective home and once he reaches a certain age, he becomes