Catching up! The sexual behaviour and opinions of Italian students (2000–2017)

Genus

Journal of Population Sciences

Table 1 Median age at certain behaviours by gender, 2000–2017

Year	Males		Females
Year	2000	2017	2000	2017
First sexual intercourse	18.9	17.9	19.2	18.0
First sexual non complete experience	15.5	15.5	16.5	16.5
Entry into the first couple relationship	16.5	16.2	15.8	15.8

Note: For the first intercourse and the first couple relationship, participants were asked to recall the month and year. The age at these two events is calculated as the distance from the month/year of birth. In contrast, for the first sexual non complete experience, participants were only asked to recall the age (in years)