American Chinamen are more likely to have never kissed vs. other races

[MatureDJ]

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29464454/

Compared to their peers who had kissed partners, young adults who had never kissed were more likely to be Asian-American ... were more likely to be in the Honors College,

[Falcon]

Some of these academic studies keep getting more creative (and stranger) everyday.

Presumably a higher proportion of them are South rather than East Asians.

[Falcon]

I just read the article. The ages mentioned are obnoxiously and surprisingly early.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articl ... 944898.pdf

It is not until later in the 20’s that it becomes non-normative to have never engaged in vaginal sex (Haydon, Cheng, Herring, McRee, & Halpern, 2014).

In contrast, by the start of college, the majority of adolescents have kissed a partner in their lifetime.

In fact, in a Canadian sample, over half had kissed someone by age 12–13 (Williams, Connolly, & Cribbie, 2008).

Eighty-five percent of middle school students have kissed a partner in their lifetime (Halpern, Joyner, Udry, & Suchindran, 2000), and about 90% of college students report having kissed a partner, with an average age of onset of about 15.5 (Regan et al., 2004).

Rates are even higher among adolescents in romantic relationships, with 92% of 12–21 year olds reporting kissing their most recent relationship partner at some point (O’Sullivan et al., 2007).

I'm personally surprised by this number. I thought it would have been more like 50%.

By Fall of their first year of university, 14.2% (n = 105) of participants indicated that they had never in their lifetime kissed a partner on the lips.

Asian American young adults were less likely to have kissed a partner in their lifetime than other young adults (see Table 3), with 28% of Asian Americans, compared to 7–11% of young adults from other ethnic/racial backgrounds, never having kissed.

I only really started getting rolling when I traveled the world after graduating from college.

[Italianman]

Compared to their peers who had kissed partners, young adults who had never kissed were more likely to be Asian-American ... were more likely to be in the Honors College,

Makes sense to me