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‘There isn’t really anything magical about it’: Why more millennials are avoiding sex
Washington Post via The Drudge Report / ^ | August 2 at 6:00 AM | Tara Bahrampour

Posted on 08/03/2016 12:04:22 AM PDT by thecodont

Sam Wei, a 26-year-old financial analyst in Chicago, has not had sex since her last relationship ended 18 months ago. She makes out with guys sometimes, and she likes to cuddle.

“To me, there’s more intimacy with having someone there next to you that you can rely on without having to have sex,” she said. “I don’t want to do anything that would harm the relationship and be something that we can’t come back from.”

Sam Wei, 26, finds “intellectual conversation more stimulating and more pleasurable than having sex sometimes.” (Courtesy of Sam Wei)

It’s a less sexy time to be young than it used to be, despite millennials’ reputation as bed-hoppers frolicking like the characters on “Girls.” A study published Tuesday in the journal Archives of Sexual Behavior finds that younger millennials — born in the 1990s — are more than twice as likely to be sexually inactive in their early 20s as the previous generation was. Even older millennials are more sexually active than this younger group is.

Recent research also shows that overall, millennials — people born between the early 1980s and 2000 — have fewer sexual partners than the baby boomers and those in Generation X, the group immediately preceding them.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abstinence; communication; millennials
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To: ClearCase_guy; Jack Hammer

I’m married to a Filipina so I’m partial to Asian lovelies ... in a heart beat (good thing my wife is asleep now)


21 posted on 08/03/2016 2:38:46 AM PDT by knarf
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To: knarf

Shhhh... me, too.

Asian women are tops.

Let’s keep this secret to ourselves.


22 posted on 08/03/2016 2:40:19 AM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: thecodont

Ex Machina !


23 posted on 08/03/2016 3:03:04 AM PDT by Renegade
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To: Jack Hammer

I’ve found that many Chinese gals have great legs, but almost no butt!


24 posted on 08/03/2016 3:05:18 AM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
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To: thecodont

The old-timers say, “Kissin’ wears out, cookin’ don’t!”


25 posted on 08/03/2016 3:10:46 AM PDT by ArtDodger
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To: knarf

Heck, I’d like to be the reporter who got to do the interview in Florence!
[I mean she’s just ok....]


26 posted on 08/03/2016 3:21:44 AM PDT by Adder (No, Mr. Franklin, we could NOT keep it.)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

Those tiny bums can be very, very cute....


27 posted on 08/03/2016 3:28:42 AM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: thecodont

Democrat “womyn” identify as female.
More than likely, they’re actually 40 year old men trying to get video of little kids using the bathroom in Target.

Our society is so sick it’s just about not worth saving.


28 posted on 08/03/2016 3:42:57 AM PDT by BloodScarletMinnesota
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To: thecodont

Then you ain’t doing it right...


29 posted on 08/03/2016 3:51:28 AM PDT by Feckless (The US Gubbmint / This Tagline CENSORED by FR \ IrOnic, ain't it?)
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To: Freedom_Is_Not_Free
If they ever invent a genuine virtual sex, the Millenials will be in heaven.

I imagine the name and software would be a minor variant from Pokemon Go.

30 posted on 08/03/2016 3:52:35 AM PDT by Pollster1 (Somebody who agrees with me 80% of the time is a friend and ally, not a 20% traitor. - Ronald Reagan)
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To: Pollster1

Perhaps morality is being taught again.


31 posted on 08/03/2016 3:57:12 AM PDT by DaveA37
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To: Pollster1

Perhaps morality is being taught again.


32 posted on 08/03/2016 3:57:36 AM PDT by DaveA37
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To: thecodont

Smart Phones. They get validation and acceptance from the electronic devices. Getting a text, posting a video or IM is satisfying their desire to be accepted. Who needs “real” human interaction? BTW - I’d take sex over a cell phone, or maybe even a motorcycle ride, any day.......


33 posted on 08/03/2016 4:05:53 AM PDT by Cyclone59 (Where are we going, and what's with the handbasket?)
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To: thecodont

They prolly have a circle of friends with only wussified males.

She needs to get outside that group and meet real Men who respect and appreciate a Lady


34 posted on 08/03/2016 4:23:56 AM PDT by Steven Tyler
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To: ArtDodger

Rodney Dangerfield said, “Marry a woman who can cook. The sex will wear off but you’ll always be hungry.”


35 posted on 08/03/2016 4:39:50 AM PDT by fredhead (Join the Navy and see the world.....77% of which is covered in water.)
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To: thecodont

George Gilder wrote about this decades ago when he said we were committing sexual suicide. We killed it through overexposure. We also killed music by making it all commercially produced and ubiquitous.


36 posted on 08/03/2016 4:47:58 AM PDT by firebrand
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To: thecodont
then they must be doing it wrong...
37 posted on 08/03/2016 4:59:18 AM PDT by Chode (You Owe Them Nothing - Not Respect, Not Loyalty, Not Obedience, NOTHING!)
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To: knarf

100% Agreement here. I haven’t yet decided which I prefer. Thai or Pinay.


38 posted on 08/03/2016 5:12:45 AM PDT by ASA Vet (Jus Soli + Jus Sanguinis = NBC)
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To: thecodont

Anyone who has interacted with nearly ANY teens in the last 10 years or so should have noticed this.

The kids today dont even seem interested in the opposite sex. It’s completely weird.

From the age of 13 until 25ish, I thought about girls and sex ... 23 hours a day.

Something is up. The water maybe?


39 posted on 08/03/2016 5:13:31 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (You can't spell Hillary without using the letters L, I, A, R)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

The effects of free unlimited porn? The effects of social media being the norm of communication for many many kids now?

FReegards


40 posted on 08/03/2016 5:31:26 AM PDT by Ransomed
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