INTRO

for the period from 2007 to 2017. We first document a decline in the percentage of young adults who report having had recent sexual intercourse without having been in romantic partnerships, and we then perform a formal mediation analyses to isolate the factors that explain this downward trend.

As with young women, a decline in the frequency of drinking alcohol is an important source of young men’s diminished likelihood of having casual sex. But unlike for young women, among young men increases in the frequency of playing computer games and in the tendency to reside in the parental home also play important roles. Although both young women and young men play computer games more frequently now than in the past, gaming inhibits only young men’s casual sex behavior. The factors hypothesized to explain the decline in casual sexual intercourse explain a greater portion of the decline in young men’s than in young women’s propensity to engage in casual sex.

DATA

Model 1 also shows that young men who are older, are black, attend religious services infrequently, and do not live with both biological parents at age 18 are more likely than other young men to have had casual sex in the prior month.

As shown in model 4, young men who live with their parents are significantly less likely than their counterparts who live independently to report having had casual sex in the past month, and controlling for parent coresidence reduces the coefficient for survey year from –.073 to –.067.

As shown in model 5, the frequency with which young men play computer games is significantly and inversely associated with the likelihood of having casual sex, and controlling for computer gaming drops the time trend coefficient from –.073 to –.054

And as shown in model 7, frequency of alcohol consumption is significantly and positively associated with the odds of having casual sex, and controlling for drinking drops the coefficient for survey year from –.073 to –.051. .

The estimated odds that young men who live with their parents engage in casual sex are only 63 percent of the corresponding odds for young men who live independently (e−.457 = .63). The odds that young men who report playing Internet computer games every day (scored 5) have casual sex are less than half the odds for young men who never game (scored 1) (e[5 − 1][−.185] = .48). And the odds that young men who report drinking daily have casual sex are about 5.5 times the odds for young men who abstain from alcohol (e[7 − 1][.286] = 5.56).

Considered together, the mediators that explain at least some portion of the decline (employment and earnings, parental coresidence, computer gaming, and drinking) explain 57 percent of the drop in young men’s casual sexual activity.

Source: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2378023121996854

Sort of a 'duh' moment. But explains that a drop for men does not only factor in women going for "Chads" but other things in men's lives they control. So thought it would be interesting to share. Let's discuss.

And to note, it has been declining with both men and women. Not only men.

The percentage of young adults who engage in sexual intercourse has been declining in recent years.