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They're "hooking" up.
They've got more access to safe-sex and birth-control information – at their fingertips via their smartphone – than any generation in human history.
They've got access to a tech-filled world of dating apps that can produce a prospective partner in as little time as it takes to hail an Uber.
So, naturally, Millennials are having more sex than anyone their age has had in recent years, right?
Wrong. Just the opposite.
That's according to a new study published this week, which found that Americans are having less sex now than in generations past – which includes Millennials having less than those at the same age of the previous generation, a conclusion from a previous related study.
The researchers wrote "with age and time period controlled, those born in the 1930s had sex the most often whereas those born in the 1990s (and Millennials and iGen) had sex the least often," in their paper titled "Declines in Sexual Activity among American Adults, 1989-2014" that was published today in the Archives of Sexual Behavior.
"Despite their reputation for hooking up," the current, catch-all term for casual sexual encounters, "Millennials and the generation after them (known as iGen or Generation Z) are actually having sex less often than their parents and grandparents did when they were young," said San Diego State University Psychology Professor Jean Twenge, the lead author of the study. "That's partially because fewer iGen'ers and Millennials have steady partners."
Read more here. (American Council on Science and Health)
They've got more access to safe-sex and birth-control information – at their fingertips via their smartphone – than any generation in human history.
They've got access to a tech-filled world of dating apps that can produce a prospective partner in as little time as it takes to hail an Uber.
So, naturally, Millennials are having more sex than anyone their age has had in recent years, right?
Wrong. Just the opposite.
That's according to a new study published this week, which found that Americans are having less sex now than in generations past – which includes Millennials having less than those at the same age of the previous generation, a conclusion from a previous related study.
The researchers wrote "with age and time period controlled, those born in the 1930s had sex the most often whereas those born in the 1990s (and Millennials and iGen) had sex the least often," in their paper titled "Declines in Sexual Activity among American Adults, 1989-2014" that was published today in the Archives of Sexual Behavior.
"Despite their reputation for hooking up," the current, catch-all term for casual sexual encounters, "Millennials and the generation after them (known as iGen or Generation Z) are actually having sex less often than their parents and grandparents did when they were young," said San Diego State University Psychology Professor Jean Twenge, the lead author of the study. "That's partially because fewer iGen'ers and Millennials have steady partners."
Read more here. (American Council on Science and Health)
