Future Left Podcast Ep. 27: Why Aren't Millennials Having Sex?
According to recent polls, Millennials have had less sex than their generational peers in Generation X, the Baby Boomers, and so-on. All this in spite of Tinder, OkCupid, and the rest of what is often called "hookup culture" and thought to be so pervasive today. Some actually blame technology for the lack of get-down, others blame social mores, and others still blame economic problems.
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Things we read:
Declining fertility rates in Japan:http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/japans-huge-sex-problem-is-setting-up-a-demographic-time-bomb-for-the-country-a7179121.html?cmpid=facebook-post
LA Times' Millennial perspective:http://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-millennials-less-sex-20160802-snap-story.html
Millennials are poor: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/08/05/the-unsexy-truth-about-millennials-they-re-poor.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/05/06/why-millennials-have-sex-with-fewer-partners-than-their-parents-did/
Maybe millennials aren't the libertines they're thought to be:http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/03/the-sexually-conservative-millennial/388832/
The Guardian:https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/aug/02/less-sex-please-were-millennials-study
Psychology Persepctive:https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-gen-y-guide/201510/why-millennials-are-failing-shack
