When you get lucky way ahead of your friends, you're bound to get in trouble in more ways than one.

A study involving 7.000 high school students across America was able to correlate that having sex at an age much younger than your peer group actually equates to delinquent behavior more than half the time. As if sex between twelve year-olds wasn't delinquent enough in itself.

So how young is young? Given the fact that different locales have different socio-cultural norms and dynamics, the answer is relative. Depending on a national statistical average will not yield an accurate enough result to deem the data applicable for all.

What the researchers did was extract data by conducting three different interviews from the same respondents and monitor their progression annually. These kids belonged to the same social circles whose first sexual encounter average ages ranged from 11.25 years to 17.5 years of age.

Every year, the respondents were interviewed and questions regarding sexual activity and records of delinquency were compared. After processing the data, the results revealed that kids who had their first sexual intercourse marginally earlier were involved in acts of delinquency 58 percent more often than their virgin counterparts.

Stacy Armour, co-author of the research explains that the goal of the study is not to prove that delinquent acts emanate from the sex per se. Rather, "beginning sexual relationships long before your friends is cause for concern." The study will be published in the "Journal of Youth and Adolescence."