“The big difference is that young people are much more promiscuous. Whereas members of my generation might have married with a couple dozen partners between them, college kids regularly report approaching 3 digit numbers.”
Good Lord! I have dated 7 women in my life and I married two of them. Times have really changed. I just thought that people were bragging about their conquests rather than remaining discreet.
I would tell you how many women I dated for comparison, but I have no idea. I know that I passed your number the year I got my drivers license though. In retrospect, I’d like to take it all back, but alas, what has been done, cannot be undone.
That said, my experiences in the 70’s and pre-HIV 80’s aren’t even remotely comparable to the experiences college aged kids are having today. I’ll have to look to find the source, but FSU did a study a couple of years back and found that students were averaging 30 partners during their 4 year tenure alone.