Journal of Population Sciences
From: The “dating game”: age differences at first sex of college students in Italy
2000 | 2017 | |||||
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Older | Younger | Same-age | Older | Younger | Same-age | |
Gender | ||||||
Male | 11.3 | 87.7 | 53.0 | 12.8 | 91.3 | 56.5 |
Female | 88.7 | 12.3 | 47.0 | 87.2 | 8.7 | 43.51 |
Type of relationshi | ||||||
Stranger | 2.9 | 1.2 | 1.1 | 1.7 | 1.4 | 0.8 |
Friend | 9.6 | 11.0 | 12.9 | 11.4 | 10.4 | 11.9 |
Boy/girlfriend | 87.5 | 87.8 | 86.0 | 86.9 | 88.2 | 87.3 |
Sexual debut | ||||||
Early start | 32.2 | 16.6 | 23.2 | 38.2 | 18.4 | 29.2 |
Mean start | 43.3 | 42.7 | 46.2 | 37.6 | 43.3 | 42.7 |
Late start | 24.5 | 40.7 | 30.6 | 24.2 | 38.3 | 28.1 |
Row percentage | 55.5 | 30.4 | 14.1 | 38.1 | 45.6 | 16.3 |
N | 1345 | 349 | 836 | 1729 | 755 | 1926 |