It’s easy to dismiss young people as prudes. But our perspectives on sex are more nuanced than naysayers think.
” toward a more individual set of questions about what kind of sex they’re having and why. Talking to them, it’s clear that a decline in young people’s sexual activity isn’t always a bad thing. Sometimes it simply means they’re having less bad sex. They’re less interested in pursuing sex they don’t really want to have, or that their partner doesn’t really want to have.
But if other people are going to insist on this framing — in which Gen Z is a self-contained entity brewing up dangerously moralizing views about sex on the big, bad internet — I’d at least like to propose a different story. In the course of my reporting, I’ve encountered an array of young people who are curious, compassionate, and intent on having better sex in a better world. They understand that “sex is about so much more than the act.
Kate, a 23-year-old teacher from Manitoba, Canada, told me that while she used to think “simple answers like yes and no were enough to constitute consent,” she’s now “much more focused” on her partner’s “body language.” This is hardly indicative of Gen Z’s grand return to conservative sexual values. Rather, this critical self-examination reveals a desire for greater freedom and autonomy. When young people believe that the right to refuse sex is as vital as the right to choose it, they prove their desire to complicate and advance progressive ideals, not dismiss them.
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