https://www.businessinsider.com/millennials-lose-virginity-later-than-previous-generations-2018-5?r=US&IR=T

According to the 'Next Steps' longitudinal study in the UK and data from them National Centre for Health Statistics in the US, the age at which young people lose their virginity is rising, for both men and women. Additionally, the average number of sexual partners had by each person is decreasing, and is much lower than that of our parents.

A common facet of TRP is the idea of female hypergamy - that a small number of men are sexually monopolising a greater body of women. This at first seems like a reasonable perspective for men to have, with them generally struggling more on the most popular medium to find sexual/romantic partners at the current time - online dating. They outnumber women on dating profiles, and generally receive less likes, matches and attention. From their perspective, women are all easily finding hookups while they cannot.

If this is true, then why is it that women are also statistically having less sex? Whats happening here? What about the 'cock carousel'?

The answer is fairly simple: the idea of female hypergamy is flawed, because the subgroup of women participating in it is small in the same way that the subgroup of men who are capable of participating in it is small. Women are simply choosing not to hook up, even if it would be comparatively easier for them to be successful in doing so. Overall, this balances out and both genders are having less sexual activity.

Why are many women choosing not to participate in hookup culture? We can only guess. Anecdotally (which isn't worth much) as a 19 year old college student, most of my peers are other females and most of us spend a large portion of our time working on schoolwork (in a relatively intense STEM program) or participating in sports, clubs or student societies. Most of us are uninterested in hooking up, want relationships, but do not realistically have the time for them. The result is that we are all effectively celibate, despite TRP stating the opposite.

Fundamentally, I think most women would prefer a relationship to a ONS. When a relationship is not realistically attainable for a woman (due to being busy with other things, or just not that interested in dating at that time), women remove themselves from the sexual marketplace altogether, leading to a kind of dating pool 'inflation'.

I think TRP is flawed at the point at which it misunderstands where modern issues in sexual relationships stem from; which is that women are simply more content being celibate and single than men are.