I will add my voice to those who have said that it varies from individual to individual, relationship to relationship.
I think it is generally counterproductive to worry about establishing a (if you will forgive the expression) hard and fast rule about when it "the right time" to start having sex. It is probably more useful to just keep in touch with your feelings, and with the status of the most important facets of any relationship-- confidence in trust, proven communication, and healthy synergy-- in the relationship at hand, and when it feels right to move forward, do so. There isn't necessarily any right or wrong answer.
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Dull sublunary lovers love,
Whose soul is sense, cannot admit
Absence, because it doth remove
That thing which elemented it.
(From "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" by John Donne)
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