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•Nearly half (46%) of all 15-19-year-olds in the United States have had sex at least once.[1]
•By age 15, only 13% of never-married teens have ever had sex. However, by the time they reach age 19, seven in 10 never-married teens have engaged in sexual intercourse.[1]
•Most young people have sex for the first time at about age 17, but they do not marry until their middle or late 20s. This means that young adults are at risk of unwanted pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) for nearly a decade.[2]
•Teens are waiting longer to have sex than they did in the past. Some 13% of never-married females and 15% of never-married males aged 15-19 in 2002 had had sex before age 15, compared with 19% and 21%, respectively, in 1995.[1]
•The majority (59%) of sexually experienced teen females had a first sexual partner who was 1-3 years their senior. Only 8% had first partners who were six or more years older.[1]
•More than three-quarters of teen females report that their first sexual experience was with a steady boyfriend, a fiancé, a husband or a cohabiting partner.[1]
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