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Coming up on forum, Jan Z is having less sex,

and journalist Carter Sherman has spent the last several years interviewing more than 100 teens and 20-somethings to better understand why.

Sherman found it's not because they're uninterested or don't have progressive views about sex.

Instead, anxieties about the overturning of Roe v. Wade,

among other attacks on reproductive freedom, coming of age during an isolating pandemic,

and poor sex education have led many to opt out. We talk with Sherman about why this matters

for the next generation and for us all. Her new book is called The Second Coming. Join us.

Welcome to Forum. I'm Mina Kim. We tend to think about sex as something private, but so much of what

shapes our sex lives actually happens in the public arena,

courtrooms, legislatures, the White House, major newsmaking events. That's what Carter Sherman

realized when she interviewed more than a hundred young people and found the overturning of

Roe v. Wade, the COVID pandemic. Our response to the Me Too movement, among other things,

have profoundly affected Gen Z. They're having

less sex than past generations, and the sex they are having can be anxiety-ridden. Carter

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