A leading psychologist has revealed how a record number of people are leaving university as virgins and the appetite for sex is declining among young people.
Dr. Sarah Hill, a professor at Texas Christian University who specializes in women’s health, appeared on The Diary of a CEO podcast to talk about the birth control pill and its side effects.
In a segment with host Steven Bartlett, she addresses how she is“ex is trending downward” among college-aged Americans.
The expert explains: ‘What we tend to see is that people are having a lot less sex than before.
‘They have sex later, they have less. There are more virgins when they graduate from high school and college than in the past.’
Dr. Hill says the downward trend is interesting considering that birth control methods were designed “so that men and women could have sex without fear of pregnancy.”
Backing up Dr. Hill’s observations, UCLA has been tracking behavioral trends for years, including gender, through its annual California Health Interview Survey, the largest state health survey in the country.
In 2021, the number of young Californians ages 18 to 30 who had no sexual partners in the past year reached a decade high of 38 percent. This compares to 22 percent in 2011.
A leading psychologist has revealed how a record number of people are leaving university as virgins and the appetite for sex is declining among young people.
Another study showed in 2021 that three in 10 Gen Z men report not having had sex in the previous year.
While Dr. Hill says the downward trend in sex among young people is a ““It’s a very complicated issue that requires a lot of untangling,” she believes the gender imbalance in college enrollment plays a big role.
Data from the National Student Clearinghouse reveals that female students accounted for 59.5 percent of all college enrollments in spring 2021, compared to just 40.5 percent of males.
The gap between the two sexes is widening: male student enrollment is declining more dramatically than female students, with 400,000 fewer male students enrolled in 2021 than in 2020, compared to 200,000 fewer female students between the two years.
Some admissions experts are expressing concern about the long-term impact of this trend on the male population, as college graduates can expect to earn more than a million dollars more than those with a high school education over the course of their working lives.
Some universities are quietly rolling out programs to attract more men, while others are offering more places to male applicants than to female applicants in an effort to correct skewed gender ratios.
At Baylor University, for example, admissions in 2021 offered seven percentage points more spots to men than to women, who make up 60 percent of undergraduates.
Dr. Hill says gender imbalance could be behind the fact that college students are having less sex than ever.
She says on The Diary of a CEO podcast: ‘You know, imagine you’re a college-age woman and you’re looking for someone who is at least on par with you in terms of their educational level.
‘Most college campuses are 60 percent women and 40 percent men.
Dr. Sarah Hill, a professor at Texas Christian University specializing in women’s health, appeared on The Diary of a CEO podcast.
‘Just playing the odds…women are going to have a harder time finding someone within their group they can meet up with.
“(In turn), this will mean fewer dates for some of these women and less sex.”
According to the latest statistics from World Population Review, the average American loses their virginity at 18.4 years old.
This compares to a 2017 study that found that the average age Americans have sex for the first time is 17 years old.
Other topics Dr. Hill addresses on her podcast include sexual appetite across genders, “daddy issues,” and the repercussions if men were to take a birth control pill.
It also reveals how taking a hormonal birth control pill can decrease a woman’s sex drive.
Explaining how this works, the psychologist says: “When a woman’s hormone production is reduced and replaced with a daily dose of synthetic progesterone, this affects a few things in the woman’s sexual psychology.
“The first thing it does is deactivate the increase in estrogen that occurs just before ovulation and is related to a greater preference for sex.”
Dr. Hill says a decreased libido among women when they are Taking hormonal birth control is a “very common response” as less testosterone is also produced.
She adds: ‘The… thing that happens with hormonal contraceptives that can cause a decrease in libido is that all those synthetic hormones that are in hormonal contraceptives tend to cause an increase in what is known as the sex hormone. binding globulin (SHBG).
‘What it does… this is something that is released by the liver and binds free testosterone… then it binds testosterone and makes it inactive in the body.
‘Testosterone, although we tend to think of it as something masculine, is a masculine factor.
hormone (which is) really important in terms of promoting women’s sexual desire and women who take hormonal contraceptives have free testosterone levels that are about 60 percent lower than their peers with natural cycles.
‘So what this means is that you take another hit to women’s sexual desire when they take hormonal contraceptives.
“Those low levels of estrogen and then really low levels of free testosterone…those two things work together to suppress sexual desire in women.”
The psychologist spent a decade taking the birth control pill to prevent pregnancy and later wrote a book, How the Pill Changes Everything, detailing how the medication can affect personality.