Why Is Gen Z Having Less Sex?
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🗓️ 8 August 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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| 1:06.5 | Coming up on forum, Gen Z is having less sex, |
| 1:09.7 | and journalist Carter Sherman has spent the |
| 1:11.3 | last several years interviewing more than 100 teens and 20-somethings to better understand |
| 1:15.8 | why. Sherman found it's not because they're uninterested or don't have progressive views |
| 1:20.5 | about sex. Instead, anxieties about the overturning of Roe v. Wade, among other attacks on |
| 1:26.1 | reproductive freedom, coming of age during an |
| 1:28.5 | isolating pandemic, and poor sex education have led many to opt out. We talk with Sherman about |
| 1:34.6 | why this matters for the next generation and for us all. Her new book is called The Second |
| 1:40.2 | Coming. Join us. Welcome to Forum. I'm Mina Kim. We tend to think about sex as something |
| 1:53.1 | private, but so much of what shapes our sex lives actually happens in the public arena, |
| 1:57.8 | courtrooms, legislatures, the White House, major newsmaking events. That's what |
| 2:02.6 | Carter Sherman realized when she interviewed more than a hundred young people and found the |
| 2:06.4 | overturning of Roe v. Wade, the COVID pandemic. Our response to the Me Too movement, among other |
| 2:11.7 | things, have profoundly affected Gen Z. They're having less sex than past generations, and the sex they are having can be |
| 2:18.6 | anxiety-ridden. Carter Sherman's new book is called The Second Coming, Sex and the Next |
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