SPECIAL | Talking about sex is hard, no matter how old you are
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USA TODAY
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🗓️ 10 October 2024
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Our beliefs about sex and marriage have shifted tremendously over the years – both a reflection and a driver of how we talk about sex. Baby boomers went in search of sex at Woodstock with minimal sexual education. Gen X groped at grunge festivals and in the back seats of cars as the AIDS crisis revealed sex's potential deadly consequences. Millennials found abstinence-only lesson plans in school at odds with the bountiful, never-ending pornography lurking on the internet. How does our age influence our sex lives? USA TODAY Wellness Reporter David Oliver joins The Excerpt is the second of four specials exploring how different generations are handling life’s pressure points.
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| 0:00.0 | Wunderry Plus subscribers can listen to USA Today's The Excerpt, ad free right now. |
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| 0:08.0 | Hello and |
| 0:15.0 | this is Thursday October 10th, 2024 and? After all, none of us would exist without |
| 0:30.3 | it and why am I the person challenged with leading this conversation suppressing |
| 0:35.0 | the urge to get home. |
| 0:36.7 | USA Today reporters looked at a variety of issues and topics ranging from retirement planning |
| 0:41.9 | to climate change through the lens of generations old aging and young. |
| 0:47.0 | On the issue of sex, we found that most still struggle to talk about what we see, what we experience, and what we want. |
| 0:54.0 | Here to discuss a generational divide when it comes to talking about and having sex is USA Today |
| 1:00.3 | Wellness reporter David Oliver. |
| 1:02.6 | Thanks for joining me David. |
| 1:03.8 | Yes, of course, thanks for having me. |
| 1:05.8 | Despite decades passing since the Free Love Movement of the 1960s, |
| 1:10.5 | it's still difficult to talk about sex. Why is that and does that hold true for |
| 1:16.4 | Boomers as well as Gen-Z? It holds true for everyone really. I think |
| 1:20.6 | particularly for Boomers this was a generation that really did not grow up with a lot of knowledge about sex in terms of their parents talking to them about it. You know, many Boomers I spoke with kind of learned about sex kind of in a trial and error kind of way. |
| 1:35.0 | They start kind of having it in high school or later in life and sort of figuring it out |
| 1:40.3 | without many examples. |
| 1:41.9 | While you see Gen Z, millennials on the other hand, |
| 1:44.7 | having more exposure through media, |
| 1:46.6 | having more conversations about it, |
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