I didn’t want to say “I told you so,” but…
I told you so. A study out of San Diego State University tells us that Millenials have fewer life-time sexual partners than either the Gen-Xers or the Baby Boomers. In fact, Gen-X can’t keep up with the Boomers.
Lead author, Jean Twenge, says that there is a huge shift going on in sexual attitudes and behaviors. This study looked at almost 57,000 people so here is the break-down:
Years Born Classification Average # of sexual partners in a lifetime
1900-1927 Greatest Generation 3
1928-1945 Silent Generation 5
1946-1964 Baby Boomers 12
1965-1980 Generation X 10
1980-2004 Millenials 8
2005-2015 Homeland Generation (designated by the White House https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/docs/millennials_report.pdf)
Now I cannot vouch for those statistics. I am a Boomer and twelve? That was my first week in college! But then old Dr Tim has always been a caring, sharing free love kinda guy.
Things to account for the lower number of sexual partners lists such things as HIV, AIDS and utilizing Friends with Benefits rather than going home with strangers. (In my day, sex was how you made friends.)
On the other hand, the study says that the younger generations, while not getting as much as Moms and Pops, are more tolerant and accepting of premarital sex and same-sex relationships. The percentage of people who said that premarital sex “was not wrong at all” rose from 13% in 1990 to 58% in 2012. Likewise same-sex relationships rose in approval from 13% to 44%. Women tended to be more tolerant of homosexuality, but more conservative about premarital sex. Guess how the men responded…
We’ve come a long way baby, but we still have a long way to go.
You can read the whole article in the May 5 issue of the journal Archives of Sexual Behavior. (Source: Jean Twenge, Ph.D., professor of psychology, San Diego State University; May 5, 2015, Archives of Sexual Behavior)
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