2026-09-18 19:05 UTC
It’s not that I believe that the currently known figures are accurate, but that I’m still waiting for a source for “early 20s”. That commenter made a specific claim with nothing to back it up. Could just as well be 19, or 29.
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@daannii@lemmy.world 2026-09-19 00:02
I have reference. For the U.S. www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db366.htm Data from 2015 2017. In 2015–2017, 42% of never-married female teenagers aged 15–19 and 38% of never-married male teenagers had had sexual intercourse; the percentage declined by 17% for male teenagers between 2002 and 2015–2017. And some newer data. www.cdc.gov/yrbs/dstr/index.html This site here uses that data and made easy to read graphs. opa.hhs.gov/…/data-and-statistics-on-adolescent-s… Like this one. Showing most kids graduate high school without having had intercourse yet. Another gov site with data for 2024. stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/134957