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...With the present economy, there is a sense of cautiousness. There is more commitment to careers and coupling because we are hedging our bets for social and economic security. We think, 'How can I financially and emotionally budget my energies?' and the career is winning out over thoughts of sex...
...psoriasis, genital herpes has emerged as a major sexually transmitted ailment. Some 10 million to 20 million Americans have genital herpes, and an estimated 200,000 to 500,000 new cases appear each year. The one-night stand is now so risky that a couple interested in casual sex must get to know each other well enough to pop the herpes question?and believe the answer. Many sexologists think herpes is the chief reason for the new conservatism. Others consider it more of a symbol or the capping of a trend that began before herpes came to full public attention...
Like some other female veterans of the revolution, Stewart thinks she was tricked into playing the male's game of easy sex. "Men compartmentalize their feelings. They can be casual about their sex lives," she says. "For women it's more of a bonding experience. Men use intimacy to get sex. Women use sex to get intimacy." She thinks men are so cavalier that the only sensible female strategy is the one her mother recommended: "Keep mysterious, play hard to get and never give...
...20th century," says Vern Bullough of the State University of New York at Buffalo, a historian of sexual trends. Though most analysts in the field would not go that far, studies tend to agree that changes in male premarital sexual behavior since the '30s have been rather modest. Premarital sex rates for women more than doubled between the 1930s and 1971, and sharply rose again to a new peak...
...sex," says Tiger, "women are the gatekeepers." At least some slowing of the sexual revolution seems traceable to the reassertion of traditional values by women. As always, women have more to lose in casual sex than men: they are left with the unwanted pregnancies, the abortions, the possible damage from contraceptives and the risk of cervical cancer associated with having multiple sex partners. To many women, random sex seems more and more a pointless diversion or a trap...