“…For the purposes of the present investigation, we specifically focused on timing. Indeed, sexual development is a process that unfolds across the life span, meaning the implications of individual sexual experiences for psychosocial functioning cannot be removed from their broader developmental context (Campbell, Mallappa, Wisniewski, & Silovsky, ; Hensel & Fortenberry, ; Lamb & Plocha, ; Zimmer‐Gembeck & Helfand, ). For example, dating at age 14 is neither uncommon nor associated with much health risk for heterosexual youth (Carver, Joyner, & Udry, ), but sexual intercourse at age 14 is uncommon and has strong associations with several problem behaviors such as delinquency and substance use (Armor & Haynie, ; Zimmer‐Gembeck & Helfand, ).…”