Feb/090
Sex? They did our first parents!
A recent survey conducted through a questionnaire published by the site www.ambulatorio.com, it emerged that 13% of Italian teenagers making love for the first time in 14 years.
However, the average of first sexual intercourse is around 17 years.
To conduct the survey Italo Farnetani, a pediatrician and a contract professor at the ‘University of Milan-Bicocca.
Analyzing a sample of 2500 responses, Farnetani has compared the sexual behavior of young Italians with those of their parents. The result seems to go against common belief.
Age of first time, from generation to generation, it would in fact be increased rather than decreased.
The first time occurs for the majority of today’s young people between 16 and 18 years, while the parents had done before. 20% of parents surveyed had her first sexual experience at age 14, compared to 13% of children of new generations.
The research showed that the major concern of parents with adolescent children is that of pregnancies unwanted.
Parents want their children to use contraceptives and 53% of mothers and fathers are not against the use of morning-after pill.
In contrast, 85, 7% of specialists are against any provision for girls, being a veritable bombardment of hormones, and because of numerous drawbacks.
How about Abroad? A study on sexual behavior conducted by WHO and involving 59 countries around the world, it was found that the age of first sexual experience is not at all down, but would become more stable.
The average calculated on a global scale of the first sexual intercourse is between 15 and 19 years.
If this is true globally, locally you notice many differences.
For example, in East West and Central Africa and South Asia, where young people tend to marry very early age of first time for women tends to be lower than in Latin American countries. Always in these countries, males tend to have sexual relations later than women. In Italy the age of the first ratio is 17.5 years for boys and 18.5 for girls.
To substantially increase the tendency to have sexual relations before marriage, and growth that seems to be determined by the fact that the age of marriage tends to move ever further.