Every few months, a new headline appears about how Gen Z’s celibacy is sending us into a “sex recession,” while data from the General Social Survey at the University of Chicago found that, in 2024, almost a quarter of people age 18 to 29 said that they hadn’t had sex in the past year. (Beck, The Washington Post)
Read MoreA cabinet minister has said challenging misogyny must be placed “at the forefront of our public consciousness” after five schoolgirls made a video about the rape threats and sexism they face daily. (Wildenberg & Lambert, The Times)
Read MoreA decade ago, a computer did something that no human would have done. It was considered a breakthrough for AI. Now the world is full of them. (Cohen, The Wall Street Journal)
Read MoreFor more than a decade, Pew Research Center has been tracking global patterns in restrictions on religion – whether imposed by governments or by individuals or social groups. (Pew Research Center)
Read MoreSocial media, and the rise of "Make America Healthy Again" and "trad wife" influencers. Both deliver messages about hormonal birth control being bad for women. (Simmons-Duffin, NPR)
Read MoreSydney Towle, a social media memoirist who mixed anguish, optimism and unabashed wanderlust as she challenged TikTok viewers to reconsider how a cancer patient should look and live, died on Wednesday at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md. She was 26. (Rosman, The New York Times)
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