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The Documentary Podcast

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The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Documentary, Society & Culture

4.32.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Sex is everywhere – in popular music and TV programmes, in toothpaste adverts and on social media. Yet in real life, regular sex no longer seems to be such a big priority for people in their 20s. Research in countries including Britain, the United States and Japan has shown that young people are having less sex than previous generations. Twenty-one-year-old student Anoushka Mutanda-Dougherty talks to people her own age to find out why. From situationships to demi-sexual or homo-romantic asexual, Anoushka discovers the different ways young people are navigating relationships.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:12.0

We are most affected by it.

0:14.0

We are the people that are growing up watching all these changes.

0:18.0

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0:20.0

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0:22.0

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0:34.0

When I first went to university three years ago, I thought I was entering a sex-positive atmosphere.

0:40.0

One that's open and tolerant about sex, with no prohibitions or pressures,

0:46.0

and where hookups and flings would dominate dating culture.

0:50.0

But the reality has turned out to be very different.

0:54.0

Regular sex no longer seems to be such a big priority for people in their early 20s.

1:04.0

And it appears that this experience is not unique to my university.

1:08.0

Research in countries including Britain, the United States, and Japan

1:14.0

has shown that young people are having less sex than previous generations.

1:20.0

This came as a surprise not just to me, but also my mum, who's a relationship psychologist.

1:26.0

You know when I look on Instagram and I look on all the socials,

1:30.0

it appears that young people are at it like rabbits.

1:34.0

But in your generation, in the age of social media,

1:38.0

it seems like everywhere you go, you're followed by a crowd and quite a judgmental crowd.

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