# Average age of first sexual intercourse

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 11, 2002, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/average-age-of-first-sexual-intercourse/113383 "2002-06-11T03:54:00Z")\
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**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/113383/1 "2002-06-11T03:54:00Z")

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I’ve been unable to find any reliable statistics on this. What is the average age of first intercourse in the United States?

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**Author:** ![Jenner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ac8455/32.png) [@Jenner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenner)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2002, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/average-age-of-first-sexual-intercourse/113383/2 "2002-06-11T07:39:45Z")

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It’s [16.2](http://www.durex.com/scientific/studies/global/global_2.html) in the US.

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**Author:** ![dead0man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/edb3f5/32.png) [@dead0man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dead0man)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2002, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/average-age-of-first-sexual-intercourse/113383/3 "2002-06-11T08:18:56Z")

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Well that is disturbing.  
dead0man

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**Author:** ![ageless6](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9de053/32.png) [@ageless6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ageless6)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2002, 9:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/average-age-of-first-sexual-intercourse/113383/4 "2002-06-11T09:44:41Z")

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deadOman:

What is disturbing about it? I was 15, and that was in 1954, so it seems about right to me.

Of course, the STDs were syphilis and gonorrhea then and more or less easily fixable. None of the"you got me and I’m never going away and and I might even kill you" little horrors.

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**Author:** ![Jenner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ac8455/32.png) [@Jenner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenner)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2002, 9:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/average-age-of-first-sexual-intercourse/113383/5 "2002-06-11T09:53:56Z")

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I wonder why it’s so much lower in the US than in other countries. Maybe Americans just like to brag…