Determinants and effects of waiting time to coitus

Social contagion and adolescent sexual behavior: A developmental EMOSA model.

“…Thornton (1991) used a life-course perspective and defined three broad transitions: dating, courtship, and sexuality. Tanfer and Hyle (1991) defined an index of “waiting time to coitus” as the time between the beginning of a relationship and first intercourse within the context of a steady relationship; they investigated factors that contribute to this interval, during which transitions through a number of noncoital levels of intimacy can occur. B.…”

Predictors of condom use in first sexual intercourse: a consideration of individual, situational, relational, and cohort effects

“…Another relationship variable, often associated with stage of the relationship, is length of the relationship prior to first sex (also referred to as the wait time to sex ). Greater wait time or longer duration of the relationship prior to the transition to sexual activity has been found to be associated with the greater likelihood of using contraception during first sex (Manlove et al., ; Manning et al., ; Tanfer & Hyle, ), perhaps because the partners have time to communicate with each other and plan for the event.…”

“…Another advantage of the sample to be used in this study is that both males and females were included. Some national datasets on which investigations of predictors of contraceptive behavior have been based included only one sex, including the NSFG (e.g., Manning et al., ), the NSAM (e.g., Sonenstein, Ku, Lindberg, Turner, & Pleck, ), and the National Survey of Unmarried Women (e.g., Tanfer & Hyle, ). However, the importance of factors predicting condom use and other contraceptive behaviors can differ for males and females (Kowaleski‐Jones & Mott, ; Manlove et al., ).…”