You might think that your first time was linked to a number of factors, such as love, lust, morality or social mores.
But new research has revealed that the age we lose our virginity may actually be tied to our unique genetic code.
An international team of scientists, led by
Oxford University and including input from New Zealand, found 371 regions of our DNA that influence milestones such as when we first have sex and have our first baby, both for women and men.
"This is one of these studies where you wonder, did my genes make me do it?" Andrew Shelling, head of the University of Auckland's Medical Genetics Research Group, told The AM Show.
Shelling also revealed that environmental factors do play a bigger part, saying: "Just because they found a correlation with a gene doesn't mean to say that's going to cause us to have sex at an earlier age than anyone else."
