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Nicole McNichols, who teaches human sexuality at the University of Washington, explained it’s part of a larger generational shift. Although the Covid-19 pandemic, social media and other factors have been blamed for the decline in young adults’ sexual activity, she notes that data pinpoints a more mundane reason: Fewer young adults are in relationships and fewer are drinking alcohol.
“The real questions is: Are these necessarily bad things? Maybe a lot of what used to pass for youthful sexual activity was alcohol-involved in ways that weren’t always healthy, wanted or fully consensual,” she said. “Its decline might say more about young women setting boundaries than about anyone missing out on something valuable.”
Are sexual timelines different for many gay men?
They can be. “Most gay men are, in some sense, late bloomers,” said Amos Wolff, a marriage and family therapist licensed in New York and New Jersey. “We’re defaulted to heterosexual until proven otherwise, so attraction usually arrives long before we have the language or permission to act on it. I’d define ‘blooming’ as the first sexual experience where joy outweighs shame.”
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