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"Our results do not allow for causal interpretations," the study authors write.

Did you miss this line from the article you linked to?

It's not at all "proved" that a later initiatiation of sexual behavior will result in dysfunctions. In fact, it seems to me more probable that

[A]males who are physically immature, depressed, anxious, gender-ambivalent or otherwise sexually troubled, will both
[B]delay sexual experience for years, and
[C]experinece difficulties when they do.

In other words, it's not B tends to cause C, it's A tends to cause both B and C.

I do think that we tend to get married at too late an age in our society. I didn't marry util I was 37 and my husband 38. That's not ideal: I wish we had met when we were 10 - 15 years younger. But I still am convinced that at whatever age, the most healthy thing, physically, socially, emotionally, and spiritual, is to abstain from intercourse until marriage.

Your reading of the data, while accurate, would have in no way helped me talk nervous insecure girls into bed when I was in high school, and is therefore irrelevant.

Omedalus seems to have a problem with teens abstinaing at least THROUGH high school (and definitely college).

Funny thing is, all of the superficial sexual relations of jr. high, high school, and college students is making it harder for them to find a deeper relationship. Everyone is too busy sowing their wild oats to make any committment until much later in life.

It is a prolonged adolesence.