Among the young, social media, gaming and “rough sex” may contribute to this trend---Minskningarna "är inte triviala", som författarna skrev i studien, som publicerades den 19 november i Archives of Sexual Behavior. Mellan 2009 och 2018 ökade andelen ungdomar som inte rapporterade någon sexuell aktivitet, varken ensam eller med partners, från 28,8 procent till 44,2 procent bland unga män och från 49,5 procent 2009 till 74 procent bland unga kvinnor. Forskarna fick den självrapporterade informationen från National Survey of Sexual Health and Behavior och använde svar från 4 155 personer år 2009 och 4 547 personer år 2018. De som svarade på den konfidentiella undersökningen var mellan 14 och 49 år gamla.
David Swanson in Rome, juli 2023: The U.S. Embassy on Via Veneto has a rainbow flag, but it’s very carefully a modified rainbow flag to indicate support for LGBT rights. The British Embassy in Rome hasn’t quite caught on, and displays a simple rainbow flag, accidentally indicating its support for peace — a popular concept in Italy in a way not immediately familiar to someone from the United States or the United Kingdom. Bookstore windows in Italy — I mean, mainstream, corporate, including airport bookstore windows — display something no native English speaker would recognize or immediately believe possible: a book advocating the abolition of war, a book called Guerra alla Guerra by Matteo Pucciarelli, a book that includes the perspectives of actual peace activists, those mythical creatures that U.S. corporateland pretends do not exist — some of the very same Italian peace activists, in fact, who spoke this past weekend on a global 24-hour peace wave (see part 12). Yes, even a war abolition book by the Pope is disappeared by U.S. culture. Find me a Barnes & Noble in the United States with a war abolition book in the front window and I will eat it, page by page.