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Comment by NoGravitas

7 days ago

Interestingly, the youngs in the US seem to be much less into sex and drugs than previous generations. The stuff we got up to as GenX youth are legitimately shocking to our children.

I've seen nothing to state that sexual activity is down. Unplanned pregnancies maybe, but that's not the same thing. Do you have a source for this? I could be convinced pretty easily, it just sounds wrong to me.

  • Look at this article - not so much for the article itself, scroll down for the CDC and NIH data it links to.

    "While generalizing about tens of millions of people is always difficult, a series of studies in recent years have reported that teens since the tail end of the millennial generation trend towards being less sexually active; they launch their sex lives later and have fewer sex partners than earlier generations."

    • I wonder how it correlates to people living with parents into their 20s and 30s because they can't afford to move into their own places

    • Interesting, I missed that. Anyways, while I think this is an important piece of info, we're still talking about porn rather than sex. There's a difference between exploring with an also-awkward person your age and watching someone else do things they don't actually enjoy while making noises they don't really make, in positions that are more obnoxious than fun, making it look more desirable than it really is. I get this because that's how I discovered sex - just like every other human for the last however-many-million-years.

      This is the first time you're getting dozens, maybe hundreds of hours of watching someone do it arguably "wrong".

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