Leaving sex to birds & bees

Milla Ling-Davies  |  Features  |  culture watch
Date posted:  1 Dec 2023
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Leaving sex to birds & bees

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It’s a universal truth that the moment your parents happen to walk into the living room a sex scene will start playing on TV.

We’ve all been there, scrambling to fast-forward the awkward bits. But will the youth of today be spared this rite of passage? According to a new study by the University of California, Los Angeles, Generation Z* are fed up with seeing sex on screen.

Of the 1,000 people aged 13–24 surveyed, 51.5% said they wanted to see more friendships and platonic relationships than sexual ones. Nearly half (47.5%) thought romance was not needed for a plot, and 44.3% thought romance was overused in the media.

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