Wowen Waiting Longer for Losing Virginity
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Young women in the US are having their first sexual experience after not
before they arrive on campus, according to a survey released on Thursday.
The Ultimate College Girl Survey, conducted by HerCampus.com, an online
community for college women, was conducted during the 2011-12 academic
year and involved nearly 2,600 participants between the ages of 17 and 23.
Sixty-nine percent of those surveyed said that they didn't lose their
virginity until they turned 18, while 43 percent of respondents were still virgins
at the time of the survey. For those respondents who had already had sex,
12.3 percent lost their virginity at 17, while 9.5 percent said that their
first time was at age 16. Participants hailed from 677 different US schools,
with graduating classes 2012 through 2015 almost equally represented.
"The delay in first sex in the HerCampus.com survey seems high, which
may be due to selectivity in who is interviewed," Laura Lindberg, a senior
research associate at Guttmacher, told Self Magazine. "However, it's not
surprising that girls attending college wait to have sex later than other
girls, for many reasons," she says, citing race, income and parents'
education as potential factors.
Even still, she adds that being a virgin likely has less of a stigma today
than it has in recent years. "We hear over and over from readers that they
are waiting for the right guy to have sex for the first time, rather than
simply viewing it as an item to check off their high school or college bucket
list," Kaplan says.
According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
in the US, young girls are waiting longer to have their first sexual
experience. The proportion of 15- to 19-year-old females who had been sexually
active at least once declined from 51 percent in 1988 to 43 percent in
2006-2010.
For males, CDC data suggests the decline is even greater -- the proportion
of 15- to 19-year-old males who had been sexually active at least once dropped
from 60 percent in 1988 to 42 percent in 2006-2010.
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