Millennials may be infamous for being the hookup generation due to their affinity for dating apps such as Tinder, but this generation is actually far more cautious than their predecessors when it comes to sex. A new study has found that today's young adults are less likely to have had sex than Generation X'ers back in the day, but this might not be entirely good news — more access to **** and living at home with parents may be behind the trend.
According to the study, more millennials are not having sex at all and 15 percent of 20 to 24 year olds born in the 1990s reported having no sexual partners since age 18, compared to only 6 percent of Generation X'ers when they were young adults. Casual sex isn't the only risky behavior that today’s young adults seem to be steering away from; millennials are also drinking less alcohol than older generations.
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The trend isn’t reserved for 20-somethings; today’s teenagers, or Generation Z/ iGeneration as they have been recently dubbed, are also less sexually active than teens of earlier years have been. The percentage of U.S. high school students who have ever had sex dropped from 51 percent in 1991 to 41 percent in 2015.
When broken down into groups, the researchers saw that some demographics were more likely to abstain from sexual activity than others. For example, young women generally have less sex than young men, whites have less sex than blacks, and overall young people who attended higher education are less likely to have sex than those who did not.
Not that shocking. Sex is more accessible -- people know that they can get it at almost any given moment (through apps, maintaining casual sex partners, etc) -- so naturally we have less.
Generation X found entertainment and probably more fulfillment through the actual act of looking to get laid.
Of course because we're absolutely snowed under with overstimulation and millions of potential things we could do instead that some people might forget that sex even exists.