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Millennials are turned off sex, study suggests, with one in eight still virgins at 26
Telegraph ^ | May 6, 2018 | Callum Adams

Posted on 05/06/2018 6:53:43 PM PDT by EdnaMode

Millennials are waiting longer to have sex, with one in eight still virgins at 26 years old, new research has found.

The sharp rise in the number of young people waiting longer to have sex may be because of a "fear of intimacy" and the pressure of social media, according to analysts.

The Next Steps project, the brainchild of the Department for Education which is now managed by University College London, has tracked 16,000 people born in 1989-90 since they were 14.

The interviews, conducted in 2016, discovered a rise in the number of Millenials waiting longer to have sex compared to previous generations, where one in 20 reported still being virgins at around the same age.

Susanna Abse, a psychoanalytic psychotherapist at the Balint Consultancy, told the Sunday Times: "Millenials have been brought up in a culture of hypersexuality which has bred a fear of intimacy.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Society
KEYWORDS: celibacy; genderwars; millennials
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To: headstamp 2

“Social skills are taking a nose dive.”

Just think what “THEIR” Kids are going to be like.....


61 posted on 05/07/2018 2:19:53 AM PDT by LiveFreeOrDie2001 ( Thank GOD Hillary didn't get elected!)
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To: EdnaMode

Brits? No surprise.


62 posted on 05/07/2018 2:54:04 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: EdnaMode

I’ve thought this to be the case based on my assessment of, seemingly, a lot of teenage girls since, say 2000. Something about them put me in mind of girls who wanted NOTHING to do with getting on the sex train. I had the feeling that they saw no upside for themselves. I put it down to intelligence.


63 posted on 05/07/2018 2:56:26 AM PDT by TalBlack (It's hard to shoot people when they are shooting back at you...)
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To: EdnaMode
Susanna Abse, a psychoanalytic psychotherapist at the Balint Consultancy, told the Sunday Times: "Millenials have been brought up in a culture of hypersexuality which has bred a fear of intimacy.

The thought would probably not occur to Ms. Abse, but perhaps the pendulum is starting to swing back. At least some young women are figuring out that spending their youth as promiscuous boy toys, practicing infidelity, learning that all relationships end as failures and collecting STDs is not the path to long term happiness. All they have to do is open their eyes, look at all the wreckage around them, and think for themselves. The culture conspires against them, but some of them will figure it out. So will some of the young men, but the women historically have always set the limits.

Coming to understand the merits of traditional Judeo-Christian sexual ethics should not be dismissed as a "fear of intimacy," although that is how pagans have usually dismissed it.

64 posted on 05/07/2018 3:14:46 AM PDT by sphinx
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To: EdnaMode

So 7 out of 8 had sex...ok, fake news...


65 posted on 05/07/2018 3:28:54 AM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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To: EdnaMode

Maybe they’re just unsure of what sex they are and have no way to choose a proper partner to keep from being some sort of pervert....


66 posted on 05/07/2018 3:30:58 AM PDT by trebb (I stopped picking on the mentally ill hypocrites who pose as conservatives...mostly ;-})
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To: LongWayHome

Oh, I know, but this is overwhelmingly about men - not women who tend to lie about private matters anyway.

This is happening. More and more men simply do not know how to relate to other people because they live fragmented lives sitting in their mother’s basement living virtual lives online and resenting women. Just look at the MGTOW movement. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men_Going_Their_Own_Way

More and more women - who can hook up anytime they want - are eschewing serious dating relationships altogether: https://humans.media/why-women-are-avoiding-dating-and-marriage

Like I said, this IS happening.


67 posted on 05/07/2018 4:46:25 AM PDT by vladimir998 (Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
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To: raiderboy

It’s scary isn’t it?


68 posted on 05/07/2018 6:09:34 AM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: trebb

Good point. These are confusing times.


69 posted on 05/07/2018 6:11:42 AM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: vladimir998
More and more women - who can hook up anytime they want - are eschewing serious dating relationships

It's trickier than that. These young women know the clock is ticking. Young and hot are diminishing assets. They start getting desperate once they approach the downslope. They then quickly realize that the good guys in the appropriate age range are mostly gone. Unmarried men at a similar age can still play the field, but the women have slim pickins,' getting slimmer by the year. They end up settling for the men they deserve, and that's often a cruel fate. Karma comes back to bite.

70 posted on 05/07/2018 7:10:25 AM PDT by sphinx
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To: Trillian

The democrats have spent a lot of time perverting sex and putting men and women against each other.


Okay. Except this article is from Great Britain.


71 posted on 05/07/2018 12:48:04 PM PDT by sparklite2 (See more at Sparklite Times)
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To: sparklite2

Leftists in general, same as communists.


72 posted on 05/07/2018 1:00:48 PM PDT by Trillian
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To: EdnaMode
My theory is that being fat and weak kills the male libido in two ways. A fat lazy male isn't healthy enough to really want it like I did 40 years ago. A fat lazy female doesn't really temp a fat lazy male to really want it.

25 years ago it was fun to go to a concert and see girls flashing. Now there are so many fat girls at a concert you don't really want to see anything.

Notice high school pictures from 40 years ago. So few fatties back then.

73 posted on 05/07/2018 1:09:50 PM PDT by DungeonMaster (...the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light...)
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To: aimhigh
Nowadays, one is eight is too overweight to have sex.

Yep, don't dare shame the fat millennials eating junk in their parents basements.

74 posted on 05/07/2018 1:15:06 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: EdnaMode

That’s because they don’t count oral sex as sex. Bill Clinton taught them that.


75 posted on 05/07/2018 3:42:40 PM PDT by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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