A given person might not notice this decrease, but nationally, it adds up to a lot of missing sex. From the late 1990s to 2014, Twenge found, drawing on data from the General Social Survey, the average adult went from having sex 62 times a year to 54 times. Gen Xers and Baby Boomers may also be having less sex today than previous generations did at the same age. People now in their early 20s are two and a half times as likely to be abstinent as Gen Xers were at that age 15 percent report having had no sex since they reached adulthood. In a series of journal articles and in her latest book, iGen, she notes that today’s young adults are on track to have fewer sex partners than members of the two preceding generations. Twenge, a psychology professor at San Diego State University, has published research exploring how and why Americans’ sex lives may be ebbing. Signs are gathering that the delay in teen sex may have been the first indication of a broader withdrawal from physical intimacy that extends well into adulthood. But now some observers are beginning to wonder whether an unambiguously good thing might have roots in less salubrious developments. When this decline started, in the 1990s, it was widely and rightly embraced. teen pregnancy rate has plummeted to a third of its modern high. (And no, they aren’t having oral sex instead-that rate hasn’t changed much.)
In other words, in the space of a generation, sex has gone from something most high-school students have experienced to something most haven’t. From 1991 to 2017, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Youth Risk Behavior Survey finds, the percentage of high-school students who’d had intercourse dropped from 54 to 40 percent. To the relief of many parents, educators, and clergy members who care about the health and well-being of young people, teens are launching their sex lives later. With the exception of perhaps incest and bestiality-and of course nonconsensual sex more generally-our culture has never been more tolerant of sex in just about every permutation.īut despite all this, American teenagers and young adults are having less sex. Anal sex has gone from final taboo to “fifth base”- Teen Vogue (yes, Teen Vogue) even ran a guide to it.
Shame-laden terms like perversion have given way to cheerful-sounding ones like kink. To hear more feature stories, see our full list or get the Audm iPhone app.
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