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Just to be clear: this is not a comparison with previous generations.

The headline and intro led me to believe this is a dip -- e.g. that young people 5 or 10 or 20 years ago liked the amount of sex, but young people today don't.

But that's not what the survey shows. All it shows is that people aged 13-24 today want less of it.

It may very well be the case that this isn't anything specific to Gen Z at this age, and that this was equally the case of 13-24 year olds 20 and 30 years ago. TV and film has been pretty sexualized for a long time. There is zero evidence in this study to indicate anything new.

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I would say though that us Millenials are complete hypocrites who binged on the absolute worst kinds of content (MTV reality/dating shows) in our teens and twenties and now want to police the hell out of everything.

Not sure that's the case. I think this is more a Gen Z thing. Most millennials I know think Gen Z is "not great" in their conservative outlook. (Don't even get me started on Gen Z fashion.)

Hipsters were despised back in my day, even by hipsters themselves, but in the end I think we all had a lot more fun than Gen Z today. I wouldn't change any of it.

> I think we all had a lot more fun than Gen Z today

That's an understatement. Any time I start to go down the hate-spiral on some stupid shit I see a gen-zedder doing, I remember how neurotic and miserable they are, and feel sorry for them again.

It also helps to remember this is exactly how adults felt about the things we did in the 80s and 90s :P

Like Gen Z doesn't want to police the hell out of everything too. I think culture has just shifted.

I dont know about you but none of the zoomers that I've ever worked with had any organizational power (they're all still too young) and all of the oppressive horseshit that I've ever had to deal with in my career has come from my peers.

As with the comment above yours, it just rarely adds anything. And by erotic standards most of it is shit in that department. I love and enjoy adult entertainment and if I want to be titillated, I'll go watch some of that. A few minutes of the softest softcore imaginable is basically just filler.

I don't hate it, and when it's part of a plot of course it makes sense, but a number of the ones in Game of Thrones I recall were just pointlessly long, sometimes disturbing excuses to get the pearl clutchers riled up and get hate shares on social media. It's tiresome. If your art can't stand on it's own don't make it.

Oh, I've complained upthread about sex scenes that don't contribute to the plot; but I liked GoT, sex scenes and all. GoT is like Marmite, though.

I mean, I did like it but I'll be the first to admit I cannot judge anything related to that series anymore after the absolute trash fire that the last season was. Don't think I'm alone there either, I have never seen something so rapidly and thoroughly remove itself from pop culture the way Game of Thrones did.

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