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August 2, 2016
A study focused on millennials -- the generation of people born in the 1990s -- found they were the most sexually inactive group since the Depression era (AFP Photo/ Indranil Mukherjee) |
Miami (AFP)
- Young people today are not having as much sex as previous generations,
despite the widespread availability of dating sites and apps and more accepting
attitudes about premarital sex, researchers said Tuesday.
The study
focused on millennials, the generation of people born in the 1990s, and found
they were the most sexually inactive group since the Depression era.
"The
only other generation that showed a higher rate of sexual inactivity were those
born in the 1920s," said the study by researchers at Florida Atlantic
University and published in the Archives of Sexual Behavior.
The report
found that among Americans aged 20 to 24, those born in the early 1990s were
significantly more likely to report no sexual partners after age 18 than Gen
X'ers born in the late 1960s.
Fifteen
percent of 20- to 24-year-old American millennials reported having no sexual
partners since turning 18, compared to six percent of those born in the 1960s.
"This
study really contradicts the widespread notion that millennials are the
'hookup' generation, which is popularized by dating apps like 'Tinder' and
others, suggesting that they are just looking for quick relationships and
frequent casual sex," said co-author Ryne Sherman, associate professor of
psychology in the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science at Florida Atlantic
University.
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"Our
data show that this doesn't seem to be the case at all and that millennials are
not more promiscuous than their predecessors."
Young women
today are about twice as likely as men to be sexually inactive, it found.
The study
also showed that fewer young people get a driver's license or work for pay,
suggesting they "are growing up more slowly than those born in the
1980s."
Separate
research out earlier this year by the US Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention found that 41 percent of high school students said they had never
had sex, down from 54 percent in 1991.
Sherman
said the reasons for the shift are complex, but that factors may include more
sex education, greater awareness of sexually transmitted diseases, easy access
to pornography and perhaps differing definitions across generational lines of what
sex is, whether it means oral sex or intercourse.
Somehow,
knowing more about sex and being able to see it on video has not translated
into more actual sex for young people today.
"While
attitudes about premarital sex have become more permissive over time, rise in
individualism allows young American adults to have permissive attitudes without
feeling the pressure to conform in their own behavior," said Sherman.
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"Recalibration of Free Choice"– Mar 3, 2012 (Kryon Channelling by Lee Carroll) - (Subjects: (Old) Souls, Midpoint on 21-12-2012, Shift of Human Consciousness, Black & White vs. Color, 1 - Spirituality (Religions) shifting, Loose a Pope “soon”, 2 - Humans will change react to drama, 3 - Civilizations/Population on Earth, 4 - Alternate energy sources (Geothermal, Tidal (Paddle wheels), Wind), 5 – Financials Institutes/concepts will change (Integrity – Ethical) , 6 - News/Media/TV to change, 7 – Big Pharmaceutical company will collapse “soon”, (Keep people sick), (Integrity – Ethical) 8 – Wars will be over on Earth, Global Unity, … etc.) - (Text version)
"Recalibration of Free Choice"– Mar 3, 2012 (Kryon Channelling by Lee Carroll) - (Subjects: (Old) Souls, Midpoint on 21-12-2012, Shift of Human Consciousness, Black & White vs. Color, 1 - Spirituality (Religions) shifting, Loose a Pope “soon”, 2 - Humans will change react to drama, 3 - Civilizations/Population on Earth, 4 - Alternate energy sources (Geothermal, Tidal (Paddle wheels), Wind), 5 – Financials Institutes/concepts will change (Integrity – Ethical) , 6 - News/Media/TV to change, 7 – Big Pharmaceutical company will collapse “soon”, (Keep people sick), (Integrity – Ethical) 8 – Wars will be over on Earth, Global Unity, … etc.) - (Text version)
“… 3 - Longer Life is Going to Happen, But…
Here is one that is a review. We keep bringing it up because Humans don't believe it. If you're going to start living longer, there are those who are frightened that there will be overpopulation. You've seen the way it is so far, and the geometric progression of mathematics is absolute and you cannot change it. So if you look at the population of the earth and how much it has shifted in the last two decades, it's frightening to you. What would change that progression?
The answer is simple, but requires a change in thinking. The answer is a civilization on the planet who understands a new survival scenario. Instead of a basic population who has been told to have a lot of children to enhance the race [old survival], they begin to understand the logic of a new scenario. The Akashic wisdom of the ages will start to creep in with a basic survival scenario shift. Not every single woman will look at herself and say, "The clock is ticking," but instead can say, "I have been a mother 14 times in a row. I'm going to sit this one out." It's a woman who understands that there is no loss or guilt in this, and actually feels that the new survival attribute is to keep the family small or not at all! Also, as we have said before, even those who are currently ignorant of population control will figure out what is causing babies to be born [Kryon joke].
Part of the new Africa will be education and healing, and eventually a zero population growth, just like some of the first-world nations currently have. Those who are currently tied to a spiritual doctrine will actually have that doctrine changed (watch for it) regarding Human birth. Then they will be able to make free choice that is appropriate even within the establishment of organized religion. You see, things are going to change where common sense will say, "Perhaps it would help the planet if I didn't have children or perhaps just one child." Then the obvious, "Perhaps I can exist economically better and be wiser with just one. It will help the one!" Watch for these changes. For those of you who are steeped in the tradition of the doctrines and would say that sounds outrageously impossible, I give you the new coming pope [Kryon smile]. For those of you who feel that uncontrolled procreation is inevitable, I encourage you to see statistics you haven't seen or didn't care to look at yet about what first-world countries have already accomplished on their own, without any mandates. It's already happening. That was number three.….”
The answer is simple, but requires a change in thinking. The answer is a civilization on the planet who understands a new survival scenario. Instead of a basic population who has been told to have a lot of children to enhance the race [old survival], they begin to understand the logic of a new scenario. The Akashic wisdom of the ages will start to creep in with a basic survival scenario shift. Not every single woman will look at herself and say, "The clock is ticking," but instead can say, "I have been a mother 14 times in a row. I'm going to sit this one out." It's a woman who understands that there is no loss or guilt in this, and actually feels that the new survival attribute is to keep the family small or not at all! Also, as we have said before, even those who are currently ignorant of population control will figure out what is causing babies to be born [Kryon joke].
Part of the new Africa will be education and healing, and eventually a zero population growth, just like some of the first-world nations currently have. Those who are currently tied to a spiritual doctrine will actually have that doctrine changed (watch for it) regarding Human birth. Then they will be able to make free choice that is appropriate even within the establishment of organized religion. You see, things are going to change where common sense will say, "Perhaps it would help the planet if I didn't have children or perhaps just one child." Then the obvious, "Perhaps I can exist economically better and be wiser with just one. It will help the one!" Watch for these changes. For those of you who are steeped in the tradition of the doctrines and would say that sounds outrageously impossible, I give you the new coming pope [Kryon smile]. For those of you who feel that uncontrolled procreation is inevitable, I encourage you to see statistics you haven't seen or didn't care to look at yet about what first-world countries have already accomplished on their own, without any mandates. It's already happening. That was number three.….”
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