Imo sounds about right, people were getting mighty horny around that time and started having sex. Few years earlier even
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tetris11@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
16.8? jesus.
I wanna see some breakdowns of these stats by country
RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
Eiri@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Is it usually earlier in the US? Sounds a bit on the high side for where I live too.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
I lost my v card at either 16 or 17, I forget which year exactly…
So yeah, 16.8 makes sense as an average.
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 1 month ago
Yeah. Even if we assume that the average age was 1 or 2 years higher when I was that age, there’s no way that the numbers in my highschool class where anywhere close to that. Out of like 16 guys, I know of only a couple who even had a girlfriend while in school, which is probably more likely than casual sex at that age.
abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
The number seems about right to me. Puberty starts at 12-ish, so does sexual exploration.
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 1 month ago
It’s not sex when your sexual exploration amounts to masturbating and ogling people, though. It’s possible that my classmates who had sex just didn’t tell me, but most of the ones I was actually friends with definitely didn’t have sex in highschool.
tetris11@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
we went to way different schools
Damage@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
Usually it’s the exact opposite
Allero@lemmy.today 1 month ago
Plenty could have relationships outside school that they didn’t talk much about.
I had my first time at 16, and my classmates weren’t even remotely aware of how rich of a sexual life I already had, or that I had it at all.
Mom knew of relationships, but didn’t know much further, either.