| I'm having trouble tracking down the exact statistics, though [1] comes close. It seems to apply less to women than I remembered. The source [4] is more scholarly and tells the same story. The BBC article [2] is unfortunately just anecdotal. At [3] they cite the CDC, saying > between 12-14 percent of adults aged 20-24 have never had sex. This number drops to around five percent for adults aged 25-29, and by age 44, only around 0.3 percent of adults report never having had the type of sex that could end in somebody getting pregnant. which are much lower numbers than I remember from another survey. What I remember is that, although on the one hand there is still a bulk trend of decreasing age of sexual debut, on the other hand these average/median statistics hide a large cohort of more-educated women who have never had a sexual partner. But my impression may not be supported by national data, and may involve social selection effects. [1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/03/29/share-ame... [2] https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-44143003 [3] https://health.howstuffworks.com/relationships/love/how-many... [4] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle... |