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Moving sexuality section from article.
Inserted by 85.51.201.132 on 2013-02-07. Moving from the article to here since it doesn't fit in a demographics article, but may fit elsewhere, e.g. Category:Solomon Islands law? I've redacted a bullet point about a crime that may or may not be encyclopedically notable. -- Jeandré, 2013-03-06t12:10z
Sexuality
Homosexual acts (by either sex) are illegal and penalties include jail sentences. [1]
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Having sex with a person under the age of 18 is illegal.[2]
- Women between 15 to 19 years of age who have had sex before the age of 15 stands at 48%.
- Women between 20 to 24 years of age who have had sex before the age of 15 stands at 20%.
- Men between 15 to 19 years of age who have had sex before the age of 15 stands at 70%.
- Men between 20 to 24 years of age who have had sex before 15 remains at 20 percent
Some local girls are put up for "informal adoption" by their family members in order to pay off debts, and subsequently subjected to sexual servitude and forced labor as domestic servants.
Some girls are hired under the guise of domestic labor in logging and fishing areas, but subsequently coerced into commercial sex.[3][4]
September 2011, women living in Solomon Island slums, and found 64% of women aged between 15 and 49 in the country had been physically or sexually abused.[5]
- 18-year-old woman spoke about being gang-raped by six men as she went to collect water in the afternoon.