Sex and Sensibilities: Let’s Talk About Puriteens

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🗓️ 10 August 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Have you heard about the “puriteens”? That’s the nickname for Gen Z’ers who are uncomfortable with sex and sexuality, and discuss that discomfort, largely online. Well, the media is obsessed with them and what their #thoughts mean for the state of their sex lives. But how accurate is that label? Is this a real thing? Our Assignment this week: unpacking the “puriteen” label. We called up Constance Grady, who is both a millennial and the Vox senior correspondent behind The Purity Chronicles, and Izzy Ampil, the Gen Z writer who reported “People Think Gen Z Is Sex Negative, But The Truth Is More Complicated” for Buzzfeed News. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:50.6	Before we begin, you should know that in this episode we're going to talk about sex, kind of definitely.
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1:02.3	So to start, we're going to talk about the Puritines. Have you heard about this?
1:07.3	I hadn't until I started noticing these headlines.
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