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Millennials Are Less Likely To Be Having Sex Than Young Adults 30 Years Ago, Says Survey (theguardian.com)
An anonymous reader writes: A survey of nearly 27,000 people suggests that millennials are less likely to be having sex than younger adults were 30 years ago. The Guardian reports: "The research, conducted in the U.S., found that the percentage of young adults aged between 20 and 24 who reported having no sexual partner after the age of 18 increased from 6% among those born in the 1960s, to 15% of young adults born in the 1990s. Published in the journal Archives of Sexual Behavior by researchers from three U.S. universities, the study involved the analysis of data collected through the nationwide General Social Survey that has asked U.S. adults about their sexual behavior almost every year since 1989. The results reveal that young adults aged between 20 and 24 and born in the 1990s were more than twice as likely to report that they had had no sexual partners since the age of 18 than young adults of the same age born in the 1960s. Just over 15% of the 90s-born group reported that they had not had sex since they turned 18, compared to almost 12% of those born in the 1970s or 1980s. For those born in the 60s the figure was just over 6%. The shift [towards increasing abstinence seen among all adults since the 1960s] was greater for white individuals, those who had not gone to university, and those who attended religious services. The trend was also greater for women than for men: the authors found that 2.3% of women born in the 1960s are sexually inactive, compared to 5.4% of those born in the 1990s. That, the authors suggest, could in part be down to a rise in so-called virginity pledges as well as concerns about social stigma. As for why this is the case, the authors of the study suggest it could have something to do with the fact that young people are living at home for longer, thus "stifling their sex life," and playing video games and consuming media in their free time. In addition, easy access to pornography may also be playing a role. A co-author of the research, Ryne Sherman, also suggests another factor could be that the way in which people interpret questions asked in the survey has changed. "Young people in the 1950s, when they were asked if you had a sexual partner, [might] say 'oh oral sex, that counts,' whereas young people today might say 'oh no that doesn't count because I didn't actually have sexual intercourse,'" he said.
Younger Millennials are fucked.
I thought the article's saying the opposite.
True. Porn was just recently invented...
So in the meantime a bunch of medieval desert-dwellers breed like cockroaches because they have no such complex mating rituals...
Ahh .. so you have been you Utah as well?
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Actually I thought the Milenials lack of sex, drugs & rock'n roll was because that's the only way they have left to rebel against their parents
Build a Man a Fire, and He'll Be Warm for a Day. Set a Man on Fire, and He'll Be Warm for the Rest of His Life.
It was at the beginning of 1967, first as a limited test market rollout in the Bay Area. So many people thought it was a big improvement over the cell division we had practiced up t that time that by April the press was already proclaiming a "summer of love." By fall, it had spread nationwide, and my generation became legend.
So apparently today's young people are going back to cell division. Who could have known?
Despite? Because.
Now add that millennials are self-absorbed egomaniacs and consider Woody Allen's bonmot "Masturbation is sex with a person I really love" and I think you have your answer.
Why bother with all the difficulty of going out and meeting someone, possibly having to deal with rejection (that alone, a millennial getting rejected and having to deal with defeat, teh horrorz!) when you can get professional pussy to look at for free, wank as much as you like and after you're done, you can get back onto Slashdot and write... umm...
Damn, anyone got a tissue for me?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Just build a wall and make your parents pay for it.
That study was very cheesy and full of holes.
One of those dating sites published some stats a while back. The data was interesting.
The take-away from the stats was that men tend to find average women attractive, whereas women only find above-average men attractive.
So, where a dude who's a five is fine with a woman who's a 5, the woman who's a 5 is only responding to the 8's in the pool.
80% of women are chasing the top 10% of men. And because even homely-looking ladies get carpet bombed by responses from dudes just hoping to get a nibble for a cast, they have inflated ideas of what their league actually is.
That sounds pretty sexist against women, therefore it's not true.
Dye your hair pink, get a dozen piercings, cut your dick off, change your name to Sally and have an orgy at the public library kids' section to protest transmisogyny and you'll be asked to speak at the DNC. Go shoot up a bunch of cops to protest racism and the worst the President do will is shrug and say things got "messy."
Today being an unapologetic straight white Christian male is about the only subversive thing left you can do.
We don't have a state-run media we have a media-run state.
Well, there's the problem right there. No wonder millennials aren't having any sex.
Back in the '80s, there was so much cocaine, quaaludes and reefer that we'd have sex fifteen or twenty times a day. Often with inanimate objects. Back in college, my friends had to pry me off an abstract statue on the quad whom I believed to be my soulmate.
You are welcome on my lawn.
1. So many people are over weight these days. Fat is unattractive therefore fat people will not have a lot of sex.
The attractiveness or not of fat has varied so much that it's pretty much certainly a cultural thing. And some people right in this culture find fat attractive. Just google "BBW" for some education (NSFW).
Using pornography terms as a gauge of male interest is a pretty weak metric of male sexual interests. A quick glance at this chart suggests that BBW doesn't even break the top 10. (hint it's teen, milf, and lesbian. Not a fatty in sight) http://indy100.independent.co....
2. Rape hysteria and the associated laws act as a disincentive.
What rape hysteria? Rape culture is where a rapist like Brock Turner gets a scant 6 months because the the judge says a prison sentence might have a bad impact on him.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=false+rape+news also see UVA's false rape article from the lovely Rolling Stone. In case that isn't enough for you, here's the FBI's own statistics saying rape has been in decline http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cj...
3. Men are being taught to be wimps, single mothers can't teach men how to be desirable.
I reject your ideas of what I should be.
Good for you, but it doesn't make them any less true.
7. The globalist propaganda says global warming and overpopulation is rampant, discouraging people from having children.
Yeah people never just screw for the hell of it. Only for kids. True story.
Do you have a point you're trying to make? You might be better able to formulate an argument with one ;)
8. Slutty women and their STD's, pregnancy scares and personal drama make a man think twice about chasing tail.
Wait slutty women (read: women actually happy to have sex) is a reason less sex is happening? WTF? More likely a lot of guys like you being a raging asshole to anyone who'll have sex with you is a reason you're not getting any.
See false rape hysteria above. Secondly, not all men are players nor do they want to be involved with easy access women. I find it hilarious you presume I want access to easy women (already married).
The bottom line? Dating is a buyer's market and the buyers are women. /em.
Not really, no. There's quite a bit of social pressure against it, but a lot of guys want to settle down and have kids. And of course women who want to sleep around (which is what people like you want) then get insulted and called sluts... by people like you. So that's a disincentive if ever there was one.
Your entire premise here doesn't make any sense. What do slutty women, settling down, and ad hominem have anything to do with men improving themselves to attract another partner?
TL;DR serviscope_minor's reply, "Wah! Someone said something that goes contrary to what I learned in my liberal arts classes!