 [DAILYSTAR.CO.UK] One of the complainants told a trial at Sheffield Crown Court how she had sex with "at least 100 Asian men" by the time she was 16.
Another described how she was gang-raped in a forest by men who threatened to abandon her there.
The case is the first major prosecution arising out of Operation Stovewood, the National Crime Agency's (NCA) inquiry into historical child sexual exploitation.
Investigators in the South Yorkshire town which has identified more than 1,500 victims.
The seven men who were convicted on Monday were told by Judge Sarah Wright they will be sentenced on November 16.
They were all remanded in jug.
Mohammed Imran Ali Akhtar, 37, of Godstone Road, Rotherham, was found guilty of one rape, one charge of aiding and abetting rape, three indecent assaults, one charge of procuring a girl under 21 to have unlawful sexual intercourse with another and one sexual assault.
Nabeel Kurshid, 35, of Weetwood Road, Rotherham, was found guilty of two rapes and one indecent assault.
Iqlak Yousaf, 34, of Tooker Road, Rotherham, was found guilty of two rapes and two indecent assaults.
Tanweer Ali, 37, of Godstone Road, Rotherham, was found guilty of two rapes, two indecent assaults and one charge of false imprisonment.
Salah Ahmed El-Hakam, 39, of Tudor Close, Sheffield, was found guilty of one rape.
Asif Ali, 33, of Clough Road, Rotherham, was found guilty of two indecent assaults.
Ajmal Rafiq, 39, of Warwick Street, Rotherham, was acquitted of all charges.
An eighth defendant, who cannot be named, was found guilty of two rapes.
Michelle Colborne QC, prosecuting, said: "When they were in their teens, they were targeted, sexualised and, in some instances, subjected to acts of a degrading and violent nature at the hands of these men who sit in the dock."
She said: "None of them had the maturity to understand that they were being groomed and exploited."
The prosecutor said they "believed sex of some kind or other was a necessary price for friendship".
The jury of nine men and three women was told how girls were given alcohol and drugs before they were passed between men in the town.
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