Sex by the numbers

[Hypoxia]

Sex by the numbers: This is how many partners men and women average in a lifetime

Brits are more promiscuous than Italians. Folks in Louisiana have 6 times as many partners and folks in Utah. And, "...millennials are actually having less sex than the generations that came before them."

Discuss.

 

[sr71plt]

Apparently it's hard to get into sex while you have your nose in your smart phone and you're texting.

 

[HandsInTheDark]

Utah isn't a surprise. Neither is Louisiana.

millennials are actually having less sex than the generations that came before them.

I hate sentences like this. Less actual sex per week? Fewer partners? Is the percentage of virgins at 18 increasing?

They seem to be saying fewer partners, which I can believe. Young women in generally want their existing relations to be monogamous, but I don't remember them being as dogmatic about it 20 years ago. I can't find good data showing a trend in the average age of lost virginity, but general consensus is that it has been dropping since the 1950s but going up recently. Education might be responsible; there are a surprising number of people who didn't know about STDs 30 years ago, but AIDS was an education to just about everyone.

 

[oggbashan]

In the UK, back in the late 1950s and early 1960s, STDs were rare and easily treated with antibiotics. The pill made young women less conservative about choosing whether to have sex or not. AIDS was not a factor.

The result was that it was easier - then - to have sex as an experiment with someone you wouldn't consider as a long term partner. People could be nearly as promiscuous as their parents had been in the wartime 1940s.

As the 1960s ended and the 1970s began people started being more selective. By the 1980s STDs were a significant deterrent to casual sex and when AIDS became an issue the frequency of casual sex dropped significantly.

In London in the early 1960s it was easy for any reasonably personable man of woman to have as much sex as they could manage.

 

[Handley_Page]

In the UK, back in the late 1950s and early 1960s, STDs were rare and easily treated with antibiotics. The pill made young women less conservative about choosing whether to have sex or not. AIDS was not a factor.

The result was that it was easier - then - to have sex as an experiment with someone you wouldn't consider as a long term partner. People could be nearly as promiscuous as their parents had been in the wartime 1940s.

As the 1960s ended and the 1970s began people started being more selective. By the 1980s STDs were a significant deterrent to casual sex and when AIDS became an issue the frequency of casual sex dropped significantly.

In London in the early 1960s it was easy for any reasonably personable man of woman to have as much sex as they could manage.

Further north, it wasn't quite so easy

 

[oggbashan]

Further north, it wasn't quite so easy

Up 't north the women wore more clothes. In London the mini skirt had arrived.

 

[lovecraft68]

I have no problem believing sex is down among millennials. If you're fucking you can't be on your phone of face book or twitter.

There's yet to have been an app created that can have sex for you and...

The millennial men are so goddamn soft and lazy that....well come on, sex is work? You see all that sweating? Man, I can't be bothered unless she gets on top.

That does however apply to Italian men of every age. I never understood what a Mama's boy was until I married an Italian woman and met the men in her family.

 

[J_R_Ashunwhy]

Sex by the numbers: This is how many partners men and women average in a lifetime

Brits are more promiscuous than Italians. Folks in Louisiana have 6 times as many partners and folks in Utah. And, "...millennials are actually having less sex than the generations that came before them."

Discuss.

It's not that millennials are having less sex, it is that they are having fewer partners.
According to the Washington Post: "Baby Boomers had the most sexual partners at 11. Millennials, however, are projected to have 8 partners, according to new research."

What's being accredited:
- sexual education in schools with an emphasis on sexually transmitted diseases
- more open ideas on sexuality
- lack of social skills to pursue new partners

So, what is being observed, are small groups of revolving fuck-buddy type hook-ups being more common than a continuous stream of partners. Instead of breaking up with a partner, and having a fresh re-bound, or just moving on to a new partner, millennials are more likely to revisit former partners that they already know are 'safe' to hook up with.

 

[GoldenCojones]

It's not that millennials are having less sex, it is that they are having fewer partners.
According to the Washington Post: "Baby Boomers had the most sexual partners at 11. Millennials, however, are projected to have 8 partners, according to new research."

Damn! I didn't start having sex until I was 13. Didn't know I'd done passed my prime!

 

[J_R_Ashunwhy]

Damn! I didn't start having sex until I was 13. Didn't know I'd done passed my prime!

*shrug*
I didn't write it. That was how The Post had it

 

[TamLin01]

Do people actually keep track of this? I always assumed "Notches on the bedpost" was a figure of speech.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

I say people lie their asses off about sex. People lie their asses off about everything.

 

[sr71plt]

Yeah, but people love scientific-method research on made-up figures.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

I was expecting a by the numbers on how to perform sex. I wanted to see if I was doing it correctly.

But as I read I suddenly thought, where's the chart(s) that usually goes along with articles like this.

By the time I finished the story, I was truly bored.