Safe Sex, Dangerous State
Reason magazine|April 2017

THE KIDS THESE days are incredibly lame.

Katherine Mangu-Ward
Safe Sex, Dangerous State

They barely do drugs. They hardly have sex. When they do finally get around to doing the deed, it’s at much later ages than previous generations. They’re responsible about birth control and disease prevention. They probably even make it home in time for curfew. Skeptical?

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that the average age of self-reported virginity loss is now nearly 18 years old. The percentage of high school students who say they have had intercourse has been falling for two decades. Two-thirds of the students who are having sex say it’s with a steady romantic partner. Eighty percent say they used contraception their first time, up from less than 50 percent in the ’80s. They’re also using more effective fertility-fighting methods than previous generations: IUDs, implants, and other forms of long-acting reversible birth control with lower failure rates have become much more popular, with use rising from 0.4 percent in 2005 to 7.1 percent by 2013. The rate of teen births fell 8 percent in 2015, capping off a 46 percent decrease since 2007. The rate of teenage abortion has also fallen sharply from its peak around 1990.

It seems like the combined efforts of America’s adults to scare the be jesus out of kids about the dangers of the horizontal mambo while subsidizing the wazoo out of birth control have, in fact, paid off in fewer teens knocking boots.

But all of this responsible behavior has created a generation gap. The Boomer version of the birds and bees is on the verge of becoming worthless, and the GenX sex talk isn’t far behind.

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