© Courtesy of Sam WeiSam Wei, 26, finds "intellectual conversation more stimulating and more pleasurable than having sex sometimes."
"To me, there's more intimacy with having someone there next to you that you can rely on without having to have sex," she said. "I don't want to do anything that would harm the relationship and be something that we can't come back from."
It's a less sexy time to be young than it used to be, despite millennials' reputation as bed-hoppers frolicking like the characters on Girls. A study published Tuesday in the journal Archives of Sexual Behavior finds that younger millennials — born in the 1990s — are more than twice as likely to be sexually inactive in their early 20s as the previous generation was. Even older millennials are more sexually active than this younger group is.
Recent research also shows that overall, millennials — people born between the early 1980s and 2000 — have fewer sexual partners than the baby boomers and those in Generation X, the group immediately preceding them.
Granted, the vast majority of young adults are still having sex, but an increasing number of them appear to be standing on the sidelines.
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