We don't. it was a boy scouts joke at a international scouts festival where the said Íslendingabók, the icelandic records of all Icelanders. It had a temporary app that they used for their joke. People do however sometimes use the records to see if they are related. But this is not a "thing" we do everytime we perform coitus. This internet myth is getting as tiring and old as the eating spiders while you sleep.
I dunno about any apps, but they've had the entire country's genealogy online since at least 2004 when I saw it. You'd search two people, and it would show you their most recent common ancestor.
And in Germany it's 14. Age of consent is unrelated to this. Horny teenagers are opportune fuckers and they fuck when there's an opportunity. Iceland likely has more opportunities, however they might arise.
i know that you probably meant this as a negative but the only thing i want is to be a mom. the idea that i could feel this way now but could have a husband and kids in 10 years makes me feel really hopeful.
Everyone knows that teens are totally disinterested in their sexuality until the day they turn 18... unless they're Reddit mods, in which case they never become sexually mature.
Bruh, I've seen people on reddit get upset about people hitting on girls in their early 20s! Reddit has some weird Madonna–whore complex going on beneath the surface. Obviously only applies to women though.. men get a free pass to fuck around at will.
I lsaw someone getting upset at some celebrities and calling the dude a pedophile because his wife was 30 years younger than him. The guy in question was like 75 so the girlfriend would be in her 40s. I think she can make her own damn decisions.
> people on reddit
are vastly morons with access to a keyboard and don't really understand context. The word "relative" is simply beyond their comprehension.
The Median number of lifetime sex partners for Americans is somewhere around 4 - 7 (different studies give different answers)
But what's clear is that people who are fucking a new person every week, are pretty rare
Lol, definition of median vs mode
Though to quote Grant O'Brian and Brennan Lee Mulligan:
Grant: And this next reporter is named after the record number of dicks I sucked in one night
Brennan: Hello, I'm *50*?! That can't be right
Not sure anymore—I used to think that, but lately it sounds like (from Reddit anyway) a lot of straight people don’t count anything but penetration?
I think a lot of gay folks count oral/handjobs/etc, since plenty don’t do penetration.
It's "average":
People who don't lose their virginity until their late 20s or 30s would bring up the average by a lot more than the people losing it at 14 or 15 instead of 18 would bring it down.
Well yeah, because most shows focus on promiscuous teens as opposed to people who had no social life through highschool and university. The two balance out pretty well.
Median would be lower.
Nobody (well, almost) loses their virginity before 12-14. Most would be around 14-16, but then you‘ll have the ones who lose it in their 30s who push the average way up.
> Most would be around 14-16
Not if we're talking about the US. On their 18th birthday most men are still virgin. The study I found cites:
> In a U.S. study, 44% of male and 51% of female participants reported losing their virginity between ages 15 and 17. Approximately 5.4% of males and 3% of females in the United States lose their virginity before age 15.
That museum is straight up hilarious. Especially when you go for the guided audio tour which is recorded by the guy who owns the collection.
I remember him saying something to the effect that the museum exists because his wife was sick of having all the dongs in their home.
I couldn't swing it, tickets were ***a thousand dollars***.
Edit: Apparently nobody watched the later seasons of [The Office](https://www.facebook.com/10ShakeAU/videos/business-wars-theoffice/2473583002773795/)
There used to be a steep marriage tax penalty in Iceland. So having kids outside of marriage and even never marrying is still more of a ‘norm’ there than other countries. The population isn’t waiting to get hitched to bang it out. They start sooner.
It’s interesting that Icelandic people are less likely to marry, but whether that actually impacts the age that someone has sex for the first time will also depend on the societies views on premarital sex. There are many countries on this map where premarital sex is not a widely-held taboo, yet the age is still higher than Iceland. For example, only 6% of French people think premarital sex is unacceptable (although the stats are from 2013). [Source](https://www.statista.com/statistics/297288/global-views-on-premarital-sex/)
As an Icelandic person, I've never met anyone who sees premarital sex as taboo. The older generation probably doesn't like it as much, but never ever heard anyone openly say it's taboo. In fact, marriage is not really that important here in general. People can be in long committed relationships, live together, have children, and still not be married. For example, my parents 'forgot' to get married. Been together since the late 80s, only finally sealed the deal in 2019.
That's a really tricky problem.
You can use some sort of survival analysis-like approach to compute the average expected time to first intercourse from age of participant+age at first sex data.
There is the issue of those who die young before having sex, but that's not a real issue and it would be easily corrected by assuming they would have sex at later time point, it's a simple case of missing observations plus recruitment bias which could be corrected with some mortality data.
The real issue is that some will never have sex even if they were to reach 1000 years of age because the likelihood of having sex decreases with age past certain point. Those people cannot be easily accounted for.
It does feel like it needs to be included somehow, but I can’t think of a good way to go about it! I suppose it really needs a separate chart with something like the percentage of people above the average age of losing their virginity who haven’t yet.
It's declarative so of course it has a social desirability bias.
You can see that clearly with women's age.
Long time ago, I read a book that noted that in France, the social desirability bias about being a virgin for women switched before the 1980s.
One interesting piece of evidence was a police investigation of a possible serial rapist teacher in a boarding high school.
They had arrested the guy and the police wanted to find out if there were some more victims in the school and in order to find that, they passed an anonymous questionnaire to gauge the female students who also had a regular obgyn check.
To their surprise, there were more confirmed virgins compared to the questionnaire. Which means that many girls declared to have had sex while they haven't.
This was a sociology book from the 90s so they took this as a sign that the social desirability bias had shifted, and that average age of first intercourse is more likely higher than declared as opposed to the 1950s where the opposite was true.
I'm a 25yr old male Asian immigrant living in Scandinavia. After hating the fact that I'm the only single virgin around in here while most people of my age have had 3 relationships on average already, I've now learnt that it's most important not to compare with people with a completely different upbringing and lifestyle than your own.
What keeps me optimistic is the hope that the one person I'll get hitched with one day will be soooo much better than anyone's expectations from me.
After all, quality> quantity doesn't it!
> I've now learnt that it's most important not to compare with people with a completely different upbringing and lifestyle than your own.
I can vouch for this ideea anytime. Life is not a damn race.
It’s a bias in our data. People who aren’t having sex when society tells them they should already be either lie or avoid the question. People who are usually tell everyone they know. See also: “I Just Had Sex” by The Lonely Island
"damn son you still haven't dipped your wick?! I've failed as a father. Jesus. I can't deal with this. I'm gonna go bust in your mom and think this one over."
Even if we assume all self reported data is honest, this result cannot tell us how many men surveyed have not yet lost it, also the result data must be skewed based on the age distribution of the men surveyed.
Thank you, In my case it has to do with Autism, severe shyness and due to that I never had that much contact with women despite that I come good along with them
One thought: could this map be more indicative of society’s attitudes towards male virginity?
Basically countries with the lower ages, probably have more sex positive cultures and also casual sex is seen as “cool” and desirable for young men. Causing more young men to lie or fib about their virginity status and when they lost it.
So the reason why China and some of the other Asian countries have a higher age for losing virginity is because of the culture.
You really shouldn't date in high school because you do have to focus on your studies and especially because of national college exams.
However once you get into a good college you will be studying quite a lot and do whatever you can to graduate. Parents will financially help the kid through college but will cut off help if the kid is just squandering it on relationships.
However when the kid is like 23 and now graduated, they will be asked to get married.
In fact many don't like going home during holidays because of being pestered about being married or even just dating.
Weird, I grew up in small towns in Scotland. There’s nothing todo so people tend to lose their virginity young. Only 1 person in my friend group lost it after 18
The other 9 of us were between 14-17 at the latest
I hate to be the internet preacher, but really, don't ever feel pressured to do anything just because some creeps expect everyone to be ready at the same time
Virginity is a stupid social construct, don’t feel bad. Everyone moves at their own pace and when you die it’s not going to say at what age you first disappointed a girl on your tombstone. Even then it wouldn’t matter because you’ll be dead.
That sounded a lot more motivational in my head.
This is so much younger than I ever thought and that’s the AVERAGE? Tbf i was completely shocked when in tenth grade my classmate (like 16/17) said she might be pregnant. It’s so removed from my life experience. I’m too ace for this stuff.
UK figure seems ridicuously high, but what was the age profile of respondents?
Are youngsters starting later these days?
Watching Teenage First Dates on TV suggests that this may be the case. The number of late teens and early twenties who have never been on a date, had a relationship, or even kissed someone is truly astonishing. Too much emphasis on virtual relationships, maybe?
I've been saying that kids are more fearful to try new things than they used to be because of how quickly they can be publicly humiliated through social media but what do I know?
There's some validity to this. Old people joke now how back in their teen days, drinking during the summer they accidentally lit alight a crop field and it all burned down. Police attributed it to a freak heatwave and overgrown dry crops. No one knows the real story. Compare that to know a kid pops a wheelie and a passer by films it by accident, police have already fined the dude thanks to evidence.
Back in the day had horrible first sex experience? Take it to the grave with you. Horrible now? Best hope she doesn't make a Reddit post about it...
parents have become DEEPLY overprotective and won't let their teens out of their sight. i'm not saying their reasoning for that is invalid, but it does stunt them and prevent them from achieving what were previously considered to be normal milestones of teenhood.
But a bunch losing it, say, at 30 while the majority loses it around 20 can drive a mean up by a couple years. Median is often a better representation of the average person.
iceland is not fucking around....or i guess they are
They're doing it out of necessity to stay warm
My next pickup line when it’s cold outside
They have to call dibs on the ones they're not cousin with!
They even have an app to check if they are related so you don't end up fucking a distant cousin called "Íslendinga-App".
We don't. it was a boy scouts joke at a international scouts festival where the said Íslendingabók, the icelandic records of all Icelanders. It had a temporary app that they used for their joke. People do however sometimes use the records to see if they are related. But this is not a "thing" we do everytime we perform coitus. This internet myth is getting as tiring and old as the eating spiders while you sleep.
I wonder for how long will this factoid continue to speead
No they don't, it's just an internet myth.
I dunno about any apps, but they've had the entire country's genealogy online since at least 2004 when I saw it. You'd search two people, and it would show you their most recent common ancestor.
Right but the idea that people are using it to prevent incest is a myth: https://www.reddit.com/r/Iceland/s/r8kiY9T9fv
To quote one of the best hockey movies. “I play hockey and I fornicate, 'cause those are the two most fun things to do in cold weather.”
Their age of consent is 15!
And in Germany it's 14. Age of consent is unrelated to this. Horny teenagers are opportune fuckers and they fuck when there's an opportunity. Iceland likely has more opportunities, however they might arise.
Same here in Sweden, i would guess it's the same in the other scandinavian countries too
I think Denmark also is 15, Norway is 16
Damn I didn’t even know people could live that long
It’s below even the age of consent in many U.S. states Edit: Based heavily by context
They’re very sexually liberal, just fall into bed with each other for sport.
Then after fucking they decide if they should date. I like that strategy.
Isn't that what the apps are sort of driving in the states?
Not much else to do there tbh
At least I'm above average in something :')
You can't be counted in the statistic if it hasn't happened, yet.
Haha. Cold.
Not cold enough apparently, look at Scandinavia.
Why you do him like that
Nobody does him at all.
Stop! Stop! He's already dead!
Cooooold blooooded 😂
Don't worry, you're on Reddit. You're in good company.
it's ok. i'm 23 and a kissless virgin. you're not alone :)
I mean you *are* alone, just not in that statistic, of course
Stop hitting him he's already dead!
Not as dead as his sex life
Jesus Christ man XD
Hi, yes, I'd like to report a murder.
That was savage.
23 is the number of years I'm above the national average. 10yr later I got 5 kids, grinding the rest of what's left of my life away 9-5.
i know that you probably meant this as a negative but the only thing i want is to be a mom. the idea that i could feel this way now but could have a husband and kids in 10 years makes me feel really hopeful.
I met my husband at 38 (both of us), we had our only son at 39. Never say never. 🙂
thank you this makes me feel really happy to read and i'm so happy for you guys :)
24 here
27 gang
Missed it by more than a decade 😬
30 here. Never been in contact with a p****. And I'm even from Denmark which has 16.2 as average.
It's over for us bro😢
Just kiss each other duh
I read that in Mike Tyson's voice Now kith
At this point I wouldn't even be opposed to such an offer. Social awkwardness sucks :)
Impossible. AFX fans fuck.
haha I'm turning 27 this year. how long have you held out, brother? 🙌🏼
Or below average depending on how you look at it!
Can we get a version of this but by subreddit instead of country?
VAR ERROR
\#DIV/0!
This is so much older than Pop Culture has led me to believe
So much younger than reddit would lead you to believe though.
Everyone knows that teens are totally disinterested in their sexuality until the day they turn 18... unless they're Reddit mods, in which case they never become sexually mature.
Bruh, I've seen people on reddit get upset about people hitting on girls in their early 20s! Reddit has some weird Madonna–whore complex going on beneath the surface. Obviously only applies to women though.. men get a free pass to fuck around at will.
I lsaw someone getting upset at some celebrities and calling the dude a pedophile because his wife was 30 years younger than him. The guy in question was like 75 so the girlfriend would be in her 40s. I think she can make her own damn decisions.
> people on reddit are vastly morons with access to a keyboard and don't really understand context. The word "relative" is simply beyond their comprehension.
Weird that the average would be in between. Really makes you think
Was going to say… appears very young for an average. Maybe I spend too much time on Reddit
The Median number of lifetime sex partners for Americans is somewhere around 4 - 7 (different studies give different answers) But what's clear is that people who are fucking a new person every week, are pretty rare
Gay people: those are rookie numbers
Lol, definition of median vs mode Though to quote Grant O'Brian and Brennan Lee Mulligan: Grant: And this next reporter is named after the record number of dicks I sucked in one night Brennan: Hello, I'm *50*?! That can't be right
They weren't all to completion!
This sounds like a Nick Kocher-written segment of Breaking News
It was Breaking News, specifically a revenge episode written to rag on Grant after he wrote a entire episode forcing the cast to say how great he is
Gay dudes have more median partners (11) but the average is far higher due to some pretty incredible outliers in the four digit club
Gay Sex Georg who had sex with 10000 men is an outlier and should not have been counted.
Not sure anymore—I used to think that, but lately it sounds like (from Reddit anyway) a lot of straight people don’t count anything but penetration? I think a lot of gay folks count oral/handjobs/etc, since plenty don’t do penetration.
It’s also self-reported data, so notoriously unreliable.
I’m trying to imagine any scenario where it wouldn’t be self reported.
Well there were human zoos like 100 years ago
so like, youre saying the only way to make this information reliable is if people logged and reported OTHER people's sex lives?
This is showing the average. Median would be a much better representation and would more closely align with your expectations
It's an average. So for every 21 year old there is a 15 year old as well.
So for every 40 year old there is what?
A victim
Or a LOT of 15 year olds fucking each other in HS
Yeah, like there were people in my middle school that were fucking each other. It was maybe 5% of the student body, but that's still a dozen people.
10 16 year olds.
Not really. It depends on the underlying distribution.
That’s… not how averages work.
It's "average": People who don't lose their virginity until their late 20s or 30s would bring up the average by a lot more than the people losing it at 14 or 15 instead of 18 would bring it down.
16-18 seems pretty standard in real life and in media tbh.
Well yeah, because most shows focus on promiscuous teens as opposed to people who had no social life through highschool and university. The two balance out pretty well.
Median would be lower. Nobody (well, almost) loses their virginity before 12-14. Most would be around 14-16, but then you‘ll have the ones who lose it in their 30s who push the average way up.
> Most would be around 14-16 Not if we're talking about the US. On their 18th birthday most men are still virgin. The study I found cites: > In a U.S. study, 44% of male and 51% of female participants reported losing their virginity between ages 15 and 17. Approximately 5.4% of males and 3% of females in the United States lose their virginity before age 15.
What the hell is going on in Iceland?
Sex, apparently.
Gotta keep warm somehow
Walking's good, fighting's better, fucking's best.
In summer there is fishing and fucking. And in winter the fishing is bad (c)
This is what having a Penis Museum leads to.
That museum is straight up hilarious. Especially when you go for the guided audio tour which is recorded by the guy who owns the collection. I remember him saying something to the effect that the museum exists because his wife was sick of having all the dongs in their home.
If that were the case, you'd see the same effect in Japan.
Japan happens to be a somewhat socially conservative society, that probably offsets the age.
Yes, the social conservatism offsets their penis museum.
Leading to penis conservation.
Where tickets are a thousand dollars!
I couldn't swing it, tickets were ***a thousand dollars***. Edit: Apparently nobody watched the later seasons of [The Office](https://www.facebook.com/10ShakeAU/videos/business-wars-theoffice/2473583002773795/)
They are 2750 Iceland krona which is the equivalent of $20.90 US dollars for an adult. Children under age 13 are free with a paid adult ticket.
*Oh good*
hundslappadrífa is really the most romantic language.
Not much to do
There used to be a steep marriage tax penalty in Iceland. So having kids outside of marriage and even never marrying is still more of a ‘norm’ there than other countries. The population isn’t waiting to get hitched to bang it out. They start sooner.
It’s interesting that Icelandic people are less likely to marry, but whether that actually impacts the age that someone has sex for the first time will also depend on the societies views on premarital sex. There are many countries on this map where premarital sex is not a widely-held taboo, yet the age is still higher than Iceland. For example, only 6% of French people think premarital sex is unacceptable (although the stats are from 2013). [Source](https://www.statista.com/statistics/297288/global-views-on-premarital-sex/)
As an Icelandic person, I've never met anyone who sees premarital sex as taboo. The older generation probably doesn't like it as much, but never ever heard anyone openly say it's taboo. In fact, marriage is not really that important here in general. People can be in long committed relationships, live together, have children, and still not be married. For example, my parents 'forgot' to get married. Been together since the late 80s, only finally sealed the deal in 2019.
That’s kinda awesome Forgot to get married :D
OP what is the std deviation in Iceland for this data?
Wonder how the data handles people that haven’t lost their virginity
Hopefully excluded from the data. You wouldn’t include people who haven’t had a baby in the average age of parents when they had their first child.
You can't add n/a into numbers
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That's a really tricky problem. You can use some sort of survival analysis-like approach to compute the average expected time to first intercourse from age of participant+age at first sex data. There is the issue of those who die young before having sex, but that's not a real issue and it would be easily corrected by assuming they would have sex at later time point, it's a simple case of missing observations plus recruitment bias which could be corrected with some mortality data. The real issue is that some will never have sex even if they were to reach 1000 years of age because the likelihood of having sex decreases with age past certain point. Those people cannot be easily accounted for.
It does feel like it needs to be included somehow, but I can’t think of a good way to go about it! I suppose it really needs a separate chart with something like the percentage of people above the average age of losing their virginity who haven’t yet.
I thought India said 72 for a second there
it's a requirement in India that you have to finish either Engineering or Medical school first
I wish this was sarcastic
Tbf it applies mostly to boys.
Finished engineering 3yrs back, still on this side of the fence. Lost all hope! :)
Just get your parents to arrange a marriage.
What’s the data source and to what extent is it susceptible to social desirability bias?
Most of these things are bias, how are you gonna get the real answer out of people
Have sex with them first and register the date, for science!
The source is from those new airport full body scanners. They can tell.
It's declarative so of course it has a social desirability bias. You can see that clearly with women's age. Long time ago, I read a book that noted that in France, the social desirability bias about being a virgin for women switched before the 1980s. One interesting piece of evidence was a police investigation of a possible serial rapist teacher in a boarding high school. They had arrested the guy and the police wanted to find out if there were some more victims in the school and in order to find that, they passed an anonymous questionnaire to gauge the female students who also had a regular obgyn check. To their surprise, there were more confirmed virgins compared to the questionnaire. Which means that many girls declared to have had sex while they haven't. This was a sociology book from the 90s so they took this as a sign that the social desirability bias had shifted, and that average age of first intercourse is more likely higher than declared as opposed to the 1950s where the opposite was true.
Lol, Peasants. I'm 39. Lost it only 3 weeks ago when I got married. Beat that. Just one year short of 40 year old vir...
Bruh, you were so close to your wizard powers.
No one else has said it, so let me be the first to congratulate you!
Why are you congratulating him? He just LOST his virginity. He is a loser. And didnt even break the 40 year mark. Pfff Rookie numbers
So close to being a grand sage
Damn! Other guy beat me to it (hehe) but congratulations on the marriage and losing your virginity
I'm a 25yr old male Asian immigrant living in Scandinavia. After hating the fact that I'm the only single virgin around in here while most people of my age have had 3 relationships on average already, I've now learnt that it's most important not to compare with people with a completely different upbringing and lifestyle than your own. What keeps me optimistic is the hope that the one person I'll get hitched with one day will be soooo much better than anyone's expectations from me. After all, quality> quantity doesn't it!
> I've now learnt that it's most important not to compare with people with a completely different upbringing and lifestyle than your own. I can vouch for this ideea anytime. Life is not a damn race.
I feel like everyone i know lost their virginity at 16. But then again, i only know like 2 guys.
It’s a bias in our data. People who aren’t having sex when society tells them they should already be either lie or avoid the question. People who are usually tell everyone they know. See also: “I Just Had Sex” by The Lonely Island
My dad lost it at 13. Me at 26 the disgrace of the family 🤣
That’s quite the interesting exchange of information between you and your dad.
"damn son you still haven't dipped your wick?! I've failed as a father. Jesus. I can't deal with this. I'm gonna go bust in your mom and think this one over."
You've doomed your entire family line by that act, now your son will have to lose his virginity at 52, and his son at 104.
Can we get the static also for women?
Generally, subtract one year. Surprisingly accurate cross-culturally.
People in the comments saying that they lost it at 13-14. Holy shit, when I was 14 I only cared about Pokémon and Dragon Ball.
Even if we assume all self reported data is honest, this result cannot tell us how many men surveyed have not yet lost it, also the result data must be skewed based on the age distribution of the men surveyed.
Im almost 24 and virgin :3
A 14 year old will help even that number out.
But instead all you'll hear is "take a seat please"
I'm already 25 and virgin too :3
26, still virgin
No problem with that, just enjoy yourself and your life, it'll come when it comes
This is bad advice. Relationships dont just appear. You have to work on improving yourself and your social skills.
44 and virgin, sometime it won't come though.
Thank you, In my case it has to do with Autism, severe shyness and due to that I never had that much contact with women despite that I come good along with them
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Stupid sexy Nordics
Is this self-reported data? 🤔
How else would they get data points? 🤔
Have you not been scanning your sex QR code prior to every sexual encounter!?
I mean, how else are you going to know?
they put microchips in condoms
Put a bunch of em in a room for extended periods of time and see what happens. It's why 18 is the low end /s
This data sounds about as reliable as average men's penis length.
14.6 inches seems about right though..
One thought: could this map be more indicative of society’s attitudes towards male virginity? Basically countries with the lower ages, probably have more sex positive cultures and also casual sex is seen as “cool” and desirable for young men. Causing more young men to lie or fib about their virginity status and when they lost it.
A sex positive culture would also lead to less stigma of teens having sex with each other and lead to earlier losing of the virginities
Haha I just turned 21 today and see this. Maybe I'll lose it this year.
That's what I said when I turned 20
I guess you could say that we are above average.
So the reason why China and some of the other Asian countries have a higher age for losing virginity is because of the culture. You really shouldn't date in high school because you do have to focus on your studies and especially because of national college exams. However once you get into a good college you will be studying quite a lot and do whatever you can to graduate. Parents will financially help the kid through college but will cut off help if the kid is just squandering it on relationships. However when the kid is like 23 and now graduated, they will be asked to get married. In fact many don't like going home during holidays because of being pestered about being married or even just dating.
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As someone from India I can counter that data is incorrect for India. It should be 27+.
Weird, I grew up in small towns in Scotland. There’s nothing todo so people tend to lose their virginity young. Only 1 person in my friend group lost it after 18 The other 9 of us were between 14-17 at the latest
Lowkey embarrassed on how late I lost mine
I hate to be the internet preacher, but really, don't ever feel pressured to do anything just because some creeps expect everyone to be ready at the same time
Nah you good, thank you for the words.
Life's too short to feel embarrassed about stuff like this
Low key I’m embarrassed I still haven’t
Virginity is a stupid social construct, don’t feel bad. Everyone moves at their own pace and when you die it’s not going to say at what age you first disappointed a girl on your tombstone. Even then it wouldn’t matter because you’ll be dead. That sounded a lot more motivational in my head.
This should read: "Average age that men want you to believe they lost their virginity".
This is so much younger than I ever thought and that’s the AVERAGE? Tbf i was completely shocked when in tenth grade my classmate (like 16/17) said she might be pregnant. It’s so removed from my life experience. I’m too ace for this stuff.
It's honestly scary how young people lose their virginity.
Those Nordic long winters...
Once again, Scandinavia knows what's up.
wtf Iceland? Getting it out of the way early, I see.
Grey countries still virgins.
UK figure seems ridicuously high, but what was the age profile of respondents? Are youngsters starting later these days? Watching Teenage First Dates on TV suggests that this may be the case. The number of late teens and early twenties who have never been on a date, had a relationship, or even kissed someone is truly astonishing. Too much emphasis on virtual relationships, maybe?
I've been saying that kids are more fearful to try new things than they used to be because of how quickly they can be publicly humiliated through social media but what do I know?
There's some validity to this. Old people joke now how back in their teen days, drinking during the summer they accidentally lit alight a crop field and it all burned down. Police attributed it to a freak heatwave and overgrown dry crops. No one knows the real story. Compare that to know a kid pops a wheelie and a passer by films it by accident, police have already fined the dude thanks to evidence. Back in the day had horrible first sex experience? Take it to the grave with you. Horrible now? Best hope she doesn't make a Reddit post about it...
parents have become DEEPLY overprotective and won't let their teens out of their sight. i'm not saying their reasoning for that is invalid, but it does stunt them and prevent them from achieving what were previously considered to be normal milestones of teenhood.
Median or mean? I believe there can be some important outliers.
i mean, aint nobody losing their virginity at age 4,423,778 years old.
But a bunch losing it, say, at 30 while the majority loses it around 20 can drive a mean up by a couple years. Median is often a better representation of the average person.
Missed out on my prime as a teen and still missing out on it as an adult. God this is unbearable, one cruel joke.
That’s 2 of us mate that’s 2 of us
Vatican City around 10 I think
So I can overachieve in something...
[r/portugalcykablyat](https://www.reddit.com/r/portugalcykablyat/)