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[quote=Anonymous]Can you please share a citation to the CDC source that you claim says 6% of 15-yr-olds report intercourse?  Here is a link to the Guttmacher Institute data, which indicates that 1 in 5 15-yr-olds report having had intercourse.  Huge difference.

"In 2013, about one in five 15-year-olds and two-thirds of 18-year-olds reported having had sex (Figure 1).9"

And this intercourse isn't all happening in a serious relationship context-- "Among adolescents aged 15–19 in 2015–2017 who had had penile-vaginal sex, 75% of females and 48% of males reported that their first intercourse was with a steady partner.6"

https://www.guttmacher.org/fact-sheet/american-teens-sexual-and-reproductive-health?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI-9Wfqs-95gIVS9yGCh381Ab3EAAYASAAEgLrB_D_BwE

If you look at Figure 1, you see that the line between 15 and 18 is very steep, meaning that teens aren't waiting till right before they turn 18 to start having sex. Rather, it's a steady climb between 15 to 17 years and 11 months.  By they time they hit 18, 65% have had intercourse.

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