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Teen Sexual Development Stages - Girls
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Sexual Development Stage 1:
Age: less than 10 years old
  • No breast budding
  • No pubic hair growth

Sexual Development Stage 2:
Age: 9 - 13 years

  • Small breast buds
  • Fine, delicate, fuzzy pubic hair growth

Sexual Development Stage 3:
Age: 12 - 14 years

  • Enlarging breast buds
  • Increased pubic hair, mainly in the center and not extending out to thighs or upward; dark and coarser

Sexual Development Stage 4:
Age: 12 - 15 years

  • Noticeable growth of pubic hair in a triangle, the shape it will take in adulthood
  • Underarm (axillary) hair growth visible
  • Breasts form mounds
  • Menarche

Sexual Development Stage 5:
Age: 14 - 18 years

  • Breasts fully formed
  • Pubic hair is adult in quantity and forms an upside-down triangle, a shape common to women

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