Going through a dry spell? Is it, perhaps, a lifelong dry spell? Or maybe it’s not a dry spell at all. Maybe you just don’t want to be boning anyone.
Well, despite what literally every TV show you watch seems to be implying, it turns out you’re not alone! In fact, if you’re a Millennial, you might even be… dare I say it, normal.
Anew paper in theArchives of Sexual Behavioraims to find out what percentage of Millennials have not had any sex partners since the age of 18. What they found is that a surprisingly large number of Millennials are actually chaste.
The researchers conducted their study by analyzing people’s responses to something called theGeneral Social Surveythroughout the years. The General Social Survey, around since 1972, asks a nationally representative sample of Americans a wide range of questions about their lifestyles.
For this study, Jean Twenge of San Diego State University teamed up with Ryne Sherman of Florida Atlantic University and Brooke Wells of Widener University, to look intopeople’s answers to two questions that have been on the survey since 1989:
- ”Now thinking about the time since your 18thbirthday (including the past 12 months), how many female partners have you had sex with?
- ”Now thinking about the time since your 18thbirthday (including the past 12 months), how many male partners have you had sex with?
Now, we obviously have to account for the fact these people could have been having sex as teens so this doesn’t necessarily mean they’re virgins. But take a look at what they found:
Read more: http://elitedaily.com/dating/generation-sexual-partners/1570988/
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