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Teenage virginity loss blamed on genes

And not tight jeans or provocative dressing, as previously thought...

Wow, who would have thought that tight jeans, sexy lingerie, boob tubes and mini skirts would have very little to do with virginity loss… It’s all about the genes, it seems!

A massive genetic study involving 125,000 people has found areas of the genome linked with the age youngsters are likely to have sex for the first time!

Yes, medical science may be unable to cure cancer, but they sure as hell believe they can predict when and if your children are likely to have sex.

This does not mean they have found the all-elusive virginity gene; far from it.

Scientists poured over data involving the genomes of people from the United Kingdom, America and Iceland, finding 38 regions of DNA that correlate with the age at which people first have sex.

So all you need to do to find out if your child is likely to lose the big “IT” early is to have doctors check your child’s genome…

 Well, you could, but even if you did, it would only be an indicator, as nobody is a slave to their genes. Together, these “gene indicators” account for only a quarter of the variation in virginity loss: not much compared with height, say, where “gene indicators” account for about 80 per cent of the variation.
So when it comes to losing their virginity, other factors have much more influence.

So while we cannot change their genes, what factors can we look at?

The study didn’t investigate this, but other work suggests teens are more likely to start having sex earlier if they come from poorer families, if they are not religious, and if their parents have little involvement in their lives.

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Rod Skinner

He is the Regional Editor NKZN and Online Editor for the Northern Natal News. He has 30 plus years of experience.

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