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Methods: Data were drawn from the 2002 Swiss Multicenter Adolescent Survey on Health database, a nationally representative cross-sectional survey including 7429 adolescents in post-mandatory school aged 16\u201320 years. Only adolescents reporting sexual intercourse (SI) were included (n = 4388; 45% females) and categorised by age of onset of SI (early initiators, age &amp;lt;16: n = 1469, 44% females; and late initiators, age \u226516: n = 2919, 46% females). Analyses were done separately by gender. Groups were compared for personal characteristics at the bivariate level. We analysed three sexual outcomes (\u2265four sexual partners, pregnancy and condom non-use at last SI), controlling for all significant personal variables with two logistic regressions using first age, then YSSI as one of the confounding variables. Results are given as adjusted odds ratios (AOR) using late initiators as the reference category. Results: After adjusting for YSSI instead of age, negative sexual outcomes among early initiators were no longer significant, except for multiple sexual partners among females, although at a much lower level. Early initiators were less likely to report condom non-use at last SI when adjusting for YSSI (females: AOR = 0.59 [0.44\u20130.79], P &amp;lt; 0.001; males: AOR = 0.71 [0.50\u20131.00], P = 0.053). 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