Interesting....

[patgund]

I may have to get the book in question

Even Evangelical Teens Do It - How religious beliefs do, and don't, influence sexual behavior.

"Teenagers who identify as "evangelical" or "born again" are highly likely to sound like the girl at the bar; 80 percent think sex should be saved for marriage. But thinking is not the same as doing. Evangelical teens are actually more likely to have lost their virginity than either mainline Protestants or Catholics. They tend to lose their virginity at a slightly younger age 16.3, compared with 16.7 for the other two faiths. And they are much more likely to have had three or more sexual partners by age 17: Regnerus reports that 13.7 percent of evangelicals have, compared with 8.9 percent for mainline Protestants."

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[nolly.livejournal.com]

Typo alert:
"They tend to lose their virginity at a slightly younger age—6.3, compared with 16.7 for the other two faiths."

[patgund.livejournal.com]

Looks like a coding glitch in the cut and paste - there was a LOT of code artifacts when I went to edit it per your alert

[selenesue.livejournal.com]

How much of that younger age is attributable to living in remote areas where this is just nothing else to do? I'm thinking in particular of a friend's kid who was moved with her mother from San Diego to Montana, and wound up a mother at age 15. Yeah.