# Average age of first sexual intercourse **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [June 11, 2002, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/average-age-of-first-sexual-intercourse/113382 "2002-06-11T03:54:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Blalron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/35a633/32.png) [@Blalron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blalron)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2002, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/average-age-of-first-sexual-intercourse/113382/1 "2002-06-11T03:54:00Z")
I’ve been unable to find any reliable statistics on this. What is the average age of first intercourse in the United States? ---
**Author:** ![Booker57](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Booker57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Booker57)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2002, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/average-age-of-first-sexual-intercourse/113382/2 "2002-06-11T07:55:55Z")
Twenty six years, four months, twelve days old. \*\* What \*\* Are you telling me I am not average? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Wikkit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c0e974/32.png) [@Wikkit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wikkit)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2002, 9:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/average-age-of-first-sexual-intercourse/113382/3 "2002-06-11T09:36:09Z")
Just to keep the two thread concurrent, it’s apparently [16.2](http://www.durex.com/scientific/studies/global/global_2.html) which is said to be ‘disturbing’. I’ll give two to one odds that that average is at least a year higher for this doper population… Booker and I alone counter eight people who did it at fifteen. ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2002, 10:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/average-age-of-first-sexual-intercourse/113382/4 "2002-06-11T10:09:50Z")
Fourteen, back in 1954. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2002, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/average-age-of-first-sexual-intercourse/113382/5 "2002-06-11T11:38:15Z")
13 it was under questionable circumstances, ---
**Author:** ![Blalron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/35a633/32.png) [@Blalron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blalron)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2002, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/average-age-of-first-sexual-intercourse/113382/6 "2002-06-12T01:16:17Z")
What’s up with all these double posts? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Speaker_for_the_Dead)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2002, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/average-age-of-first-sexual-intercourse/113382/7 "2002-06-12T01:19:56Z")
Umm… older than 15 😛 Speaker, still needing a girlfriend to _kiss_, let alone make love to. ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2002, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/average-age-of-first-sexual-intercourse/113382/8 "2002-06-12T01:48:02Z")
After watching MTV, I’d guess it to be around nine or so. 😉 Actually, I think it is about 16, as **Wikkit** stated. Peace, mangeorge ---
**Author:** ![Blalron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/35a633/32.png) [@Blalron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blalron)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2002, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/average-age-of-first-sexual-intercourse/113382/9 "2002-06-12T02:51:59Z")
I’ll be a Senior in High School this fall, and by the looks of it senior virgins are an endangered species. ---
**Author:** ![d12](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/71c47a/32.png) [@d12](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/d12)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2002, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/average-age-of-first-sexual-intercourse/113382/10 "2002-06-12T02:55:22Z")
> [@](#): > > I’ll give two to one odds that that average is at least a year higher for this doper population… Booker and I alone counter eight people who did it at fifteen. Chicks dig us smart dudes 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2002, 10:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/average-age-of-first-sexual-intercourse/113382/11 "2002-06-12T10:32:25Z")
I lost my virginity just after I turned 17 (am 19 now)