A record number of people are dropping out of university as virgins as young people’s desire for sex declines, a leading psychologist has revealed.
Dr. Sarah Hill, a professor at Texas Christian University who specializes in women’s health, appeared on the podcast “The Diary of a CEO” to talk about oral contraceptives and their ramifications.
In one segment with host Stephen Bartlett, she talked about how.Among American college students, ex-girlfriends are on the decline.
Experts explain: “What we often see is that people are having sex far less than they used to.
“They’re having sex later and having sex less often. More people are leaving high school and college as virgins than ever before.”
Dr. Hill says this downward trend is interesting given that contraception was designed “to allow men and women to have sex without fear of pregnancy.”
Supporting Dr. Hill’s observations, UCLA has long tracked behavioral trends, including sex, through the annual California Health Interview, the nation’s largest state health survey.
In 2021, the number of young Californians ages 18 to 30 who have not had a sexual partner in the past year reached a 10-year high of 38%. This compares to 22% in 2011.
A record number of people are dropping out of university as virgins as young people’s desire for sex declines, a leading psychologist has revealed.
Another study found that in 2021, three in 10 Gen Z men reported not having sex in the previous year.
Dr. Hill says that the trend toward sex among young people is on the decline;“It’s a very complex issue and there’s a lot of untangling that needs to be done,” she said, believing that the gender imbalance in university admissions plays a big role.
According to data from the National Student Clearinghouse, female students made up 59.5% of all college enrollments in spring 2021, compared to just 40.5% of male students.
The gender gap is widening, with male students enrolling at a much lower rate than female students, with 400,000 fewer male students enrolling in 2021 than in 2020, compared to 400,000 fewer female students. 200,000 fewer people than in 2020.
Some admissions experts have expressed concern about the long-term impact this trend will have on the male population, as college graduates can expect to earn more than $1 million more over their lifetime than those with a high school diploma. I am doing it.
Some universities are secretly implementing programs to attract more men, while others are offering more places to male applicants than women to correct gender imbalances.
At Baylor University, for example, the 2021 admissions process gave 7 percentage points more admissions spots to men than to women, who make up 60 percent of the undergraduate student body.
Dr. Hill says a gender imbalance may be behind the fact that college students are having less sex than ever before.
She said on the podcast “The Diary of a CEO”: “Imagine you are a college-age woman looking for someone who is at least equal to you in terms of academic background.
“Most college campuses are 60 percent female; [40 percent male].
Dr. Sarah Hill, a professor at Texas Christian University who specializes in women’s health, appeared on the podcast “The Diary of a CEO.”
“You’re simply playing with the odds…women will have a harder time finding people in their own group to hang out with.
‘[In turn]This will mean fewer dates and less sex for some women. ”
According to the latest statistics from the World Population Review, the average American loses their virginity at the age of 18.4.
This compares to a 2017 study that found the average age Americans have sex for the first time is 17.
Other topics Dr. Hill covers on the podcast include cross-gender sexuality, “daddy issues,” and the consequences if men have to take birth control pills.
She also reveals how taking hormonal birth control pills can reduce a woman’s desire for sex.
Explaining how this works, the psychologist says: “By flattening a woman’s own hormone production and replacing it with a daily dose of synthetic progesterone, this has several effects on women’s sexual psychology.”
“The first thing it does is stop the estrogen surge that occurs just before ovulation, which is associated with an increased desire for sex.”
Dr. Hill says Decreased sexual desire in women at certain times It’s a “very common reaction” because hormonal birth control also reduces testosterone production.
She added: “What happens with hormonal contraception can lead to a decrease in sex drive. What it does is that all the synthetic hormones in hormonal contraception tend to lead to an increase in so-called sex hormones – bond Globulin (SHBG).
“What it does… it’s released by the liver and it binds free testosterone… so it binds the testosterone and makes it inactive in the body.
“Testosterone is often thought of as a male thing, but it is a male thing.”
hormone [which is] This is actually very important in terms of promoting sexual desire in women, with levels of free testosterone in women on hormonal birth control being about 60% higher than in women who cycle naturally. % low.
“What this means is that women taking hormonal birth control will have an additional blow to their libido.
“Estrogen levels are low, and then free testosterone levels are very low. These two work together to suppress a woman’s sexual desire.”
The psychologist took contraceptive pills for 10 years to prevent pregnancy and went on to write a book, How the Pill Changes Everything, detailing how drugs affect personality.
