willyhilly wrote: ↑Wed Apr 13, 2022 5:22 pm Crikey there are some fuddie duddies on here. Are people so out of touch with how young people behave in Australia.

"If you compare them with a generation earlier, people in their 20s now are much less likely to be in a live-in, long-term relationship – or even married – than they were, and we know that the greatest predictor of how often you have sex is being in a long-term relationship," says Professor Juliet Richters, from The Kirby Institute, the lead investigator of the Second Australian Study of Health and Relationships.

Even in the past decade, the ASHR survey of more than 20,000 Australians aged 16-69 found there had been a significant drop in the number of people in long-term relationships, with 74 per cent of respondents reporting they were in a regular or ongoing heterosexual relationship in the survey, compared to 87 per cent in the same survey published 10 years earlier.

Twenty-two-year-old legal editor Alannah Tommasoni says despite a widely held perception that the popularity of online dating apps equates to more sex, nothing could be further from the truth.

"It might mean more sexual partners, but not more sex. People my age are not having a lot of sex."

She is not surprised Millennials are in the midst of a "sex recession", claiming the move to online dating has meant casual sex and casual relationships have come at the expense of long-term relationships, and hence, more frequent sex.

willyhilly wrote: ↑Wed Apr 13, 2022 5:22 pm Crikey there are some fuddie duddies on here. Are people so out of touch with how young people behave in Australia.

Ghostwriter wrote: ↑Thu Apr 14, 2022 11:01 am

Alex wrote: ↑Wed Apr 13, 2022 11:31 pm just a shitty little country down south

Can't argue about the PM though, i think most agree on that.