Gen Z Is Having Less Sex. Why?
Update: 2025-06-23
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Journalist Carter Sherman says Gen Z — people ages 13 to 28 — are having less sex than previous generations. As part of her research, Sherman interviewed more than 100 teenagers, college students, and sexual health experts. She argues that miseducation, porn, digital disconnection, and political pressure have combined to reshape how young people experience sex and intimacy. Her book is The Second Coming: Sex and the Next Generation's Fight Over Its Future.
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What I see in the last 10 years with younger adult women is that they are having more babies without any thought for the future and how they will provide for them. It’s crazy to me to keep having kids when they can’t afford the first one. It’s hard enough for younger adults to get by and have a job, a home and food for their kids. But yet they continue to have another and another. I wish schools would teach girls how easy it is to get pregnant and how they’d have to provide for them.
The grad speaker was a heroine!!!! And the positive reaction shows that she was not alone. I was active during the 70's and 80's when sex was NOT SHAMEFUL. I feel such sadness that these young women are being dragged back into the the dark ages of the 1950's.