• jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
    7·
    10 months ago

    That would make Gen z the first generation ever want less of sex than other generations.

    This is the classic epidemiological survey problem. You ask people what they want, they’ll tell you what they think they should say.

    The study would have been better served if they showed them different content and see what people actually watch.

    Not to mention they quoted a study result, Anna 16 from UCLA… I’m sure she didn’t take into account what her parents, school officials, religious officials, would want her to say when she made her comment…

    • Chais@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      31·
      10 months ago

      In defense of the point made in the title (I didn’t read the article): in recent years it seems sex scenes were added just for the controversy. For the most part they don’t advance the plot or drive character development or exposition. They just give the entertainment magazines something to write about.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    A new study about young Americans’ entertainment consumption habits shows that Generation Z is far more interested in seeing stories of platonic relationships on screen than those featuring sex and romance.

    More than half of the 1,500 young people who participated in the University of California Los Angeles’s (UCLA) Center for Scholars and Storytellers “Teens and Screens” survey said they want to see more content focused on friendships.

    “When there’s media with too much sex, me and my friends often feel uncomfortable,” said survey respondent Ana, age 16, in a video released by UCLA to accompany the study.

    The research team said Gen Z’s chaste entertainment preferences stem from a craving for feel-good character relationships following the isolation of the pandemic years.

    The UCLA research team did not ask the surveyed youth if they sought out sexual or pornographic content outside the realm of TV, movies and social media.

    “It’s not that young people aren’t interested in TV, movies and other media with sexual content, it’s that they want to see more and different types of relationships,” said UCLA Center for Scholars and Storytellers founder Yalda Uhls.

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