Horny teens are a staple in TV and movies, but it's a genre of media that Gen Z is supposedly over. A new study from UCLA's Teens and Screens stated young people from ages 13-24 think that sex and romance are too centered in media, with 51.5% of the youths in the study preferring to see more authentic portrayals of platonic relationships.
This decreased interest in onscreen sex sort of makes sense. In an age where young people are increasingly battling loneliness because of the pandemic or constant stimulation through the internet — in general, they are having less sex than their parents' generations and aren't interested in monogamous relationships and marriage in the same way.
