Editing Age of consent (section)

===Health===
{{See also|Sexual intercourse#Health effects}}
The human [[immune system]] continues to develop after puberty.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/524225_4|title=Medscape: Medscape Access|access-date=29 June 2015}}</ref> The age of exposure has an influence upon if the immune system can fend off infections in general, and this is also true in the case of some [[Sexually transmitted infection|sexually transmitted diseases]]. For example, a risk factor for [[HPV]] strains causing [[genital wart]]s is sexual debut at a young age;<ref name="ncbi.nlm.nih.gov">{{cite journal|pmc=4018629 |title=Men's beliefs about HPV-related disease|journal=Journal of Behavioral Medicine|volume=33|issue=4|pages=274–281|year=2010|last1=Brewer|first1=N. T.|last2=Ng|first2=T. W.|last3=McRee|first3=A. L.|last4=Reiter|first4=P. L.|doi=10.1007/s10865-010-9251-2|pmid=20162346}}</ref> if this extends to the cancer causing strains, then sexual debut at a young age would potentially also increase risk of persistence of HPV infections that cause the very [[Human papillomavirus#Cancer|HPV induced cancers]] that are being diagnosed in spiking numbers of relatively young people.<ref name="ncbi.nlm.nih.gov"/>