caa a22 4500 386396493 CHVBK 20180307112140.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198904 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0021932000017867 doi S0021932000017867 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0021932000017867 Age at first intercourse [Elektronische Daten] In 1984-85 a representative sample of 286 Danish women and 336 men aged 16-20 years were interviewed about their sexual debut. Seventy-four females (25·9%) and 101 males (30·1%) had not yet experienced sexual intercourse. A maximum likelihood estimation method was used to establish the age distribution at sexual debut. This takes into account knowledge of age at interview among the non-experienced respondents and of the few who did not report age at sexual debut. The median age at first sexual intercourse was close to 16·8 years for both females and males. This appeared to be a consequence of age at debut declining among women and remaining unchanged among males during the preceding 20 years. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 Wielandt Hanne Department of Social Medicine, University of Odense, Denmark Boldsen Jesper Department of Social Medicine, University of Odense, Denmark Journal of Biosocial Science Cambridge University Press 21/2(1989-04), 169-177 0021-9320 21:2<169 1989 21 JBS https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021932000017867 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021932000017867 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Wielandt Hanne Department of Social Medicine, University of Odense, Denmark NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Boldsen Jesper Department of Social Medicine, University of Odense, Denmark NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Biosocial Science Cambridge University Press 21/2(1989-04), 169-177 0021-9320 21:2<169 1989 21 JBS CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge