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❌ Today’s students aren’t having sex.

💏 Not nearly as many university students are having sex as you might think...

🦠 And Covid is not to blame

Here’s what is...

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🤝 New research has shown students are prioritising finding friendships over sexual partners

58% of students who participated in a new report, "Sex and Relationships Among Students" say:

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Making friends at university...
😘 Is more important than finding a sexual partner

📊Just 16% of students declared excitement at the prospect of having sex at university.

Male students are less sexually active than female counterparts:
🕺34% of men
💃 47% of women

❌ 11% of students were celibate by choice

The survey also revealed...
📊 Men are more likely than women to report they’ve had more sexual partners

🗓️ Nearly 10% of sexual encounters occurred during university welcome weeks
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🔎“People have very inaccurate perceptions of others’ lives especially in relation to sex,” says Nick Hillman, from Higher Education Policy Unit.

✅This is true at all ages..

Research shows people believe women have approx 17 sexual partners by their 40s

The true number is 8

📚 “I would say the student sex thing is a baby boomer obsession”

💊 “The pill, easy access to abortion was a game changer for a whole generation,” say Dr Sarah Nicholson, retired NHS psychiatrist.

Today’s universities are more sober and circumspect

🇬🇧 The wild side of university life is a narrative peculiar to the UK.

🏠 As a nation, we are unusual in using university as a way to leave home and grow up.

🌍 In other countries, students mostly live at home while they study - a passion killer if ever there was one

⛔️ Sexual mores have also shifted and students are scared about getting consent wrong.

✏️ At some universities, it’s compulsory to attend training around consent and coercion
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⁉️ Only 1/4 undergraduates say that what they learned in their lives before university actually prepared them for sex and relationships

📲 4/10 students have sexted a partner - mostly sending naked pictures

For parents it's hard to know whether to be:
👍 Relieved their young adult children are not having sex
😟 or worried no intimate relationships could mean they are lonely

🤷 The truth is, ask parents today about their student children’s sex lives and most don’t have a clue

Research also showed:
💻Over 50% of respondents say they watched porn

❣️ Nearly 1/3 say they’ve had an intimate relationship at university

💋 1/4 arrive at university never having kissed anyone

❌ 43% have never had sex

✅ “And that’s the benefits of surveys such as these...

"People read them and say, ‘oh, thank goodness I’m not the only virgin’,” says Dr Nicholson.

Read @helenapozniak's full report 👇
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