Here's one of the studies linked in the article, published in 2014: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4011992/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/artic

Here's one of the studies linked in the article, published in 2014: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4011992/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4011992/ Quoting from the "Age at first sex" section: The median age at first sex declined among women born in the 1950s and 1960s, but beginning with women born in the 1970s, this trend halted at about 17.0 years of age, and the median age actually increased by almost a year among cohorts coming of age in the late 1990s. Accordingly, the “current” median age (i.e., the median for the most recent cohort for which a median can be calculated) at first sex is 17.8 for women. A similar increase beginning with the 1982 birth cohort was seen for men (Figure 2), although median age at first sex was stable for those born between 1960 and 1985, at about 17.0. The “current” median age at first sex for men is 18.1. So young people start having sex about a year later, men 0.1 years later than women. Not really a huge difference compared to the overall change. If you think that women must have a lot more sex than men because they'd have an easy time finding a random man who'd sleep with them, you should consider that most women don't want to sleep with just any random man. Similarly, if men who're not having sex were fine with any random partner, they could just pay a prostitute. But clearly people have higher standards than that.