The University of Chicago’s General Social Survey - which has been following shifts in Americans’ behavioral trends for decades - found that 3 in 10 Generation Z males, ages 18 to 25, surveyed in 2021 reported having gone without sex the prior year. The broader trend of young adults forgoing sex holds true nationally. But researchers say that’s not the whole story: The “no rush for sex” trend predates the pandemic, according to a solid body of research. The social isolation and transmission scares of the COVID-19 pandemic have no doubt played a role in the shift. It seems very messy, and it’s vulnerable in a way that I think would be very uncomfortable.”įor what researchers say is an array of reasons - including technology, heavy academic schedules and an overall slower-motion process of growing up - millennials and now Gen Zers are having less sex, with fewer partners, than their parents’ and grandparents’ generations did. “I’m glad people have fun with it and it works for them. “Some people assume this is about shaming other people, and it’s not,” said Rhodes, 28, who works as a certified nursing assistant in Los Angeles. In her early 20s, she watched someone she followed on Tumblr come out as asexual and realized that’s how she felt: She had yet to develop romantic feelings for anyone, and the physical act of sex just didn’t sound appealing. Even flirting “felt unnatural,” she said. But then college came and went - and no sex. She was raised in a Christian household in Washington state and thought sex before marriage would be the ultimate rebellion. Vivian Rhodes figured she would eventually have sex.
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