It’s well established that young people aren’t having much sex. A Feeld study published in 2024 found that 37 per cent of Gen Z reported having no sex at all in the past month, a stark contrast to just 19 per cent of Millennials and 17 per cent of Gen X. We’re also having far less sex than previous generations did when they were our age.
Plus, in the US, recent research from the National Survey of Family Growth found that a sizable 10 per cent of young men between the ages of 22 and 34 and 7 per cent of their female counterparts are still virgins.
But a new survey suggests that young French women are bucking the trend. According to France’s National Institute for Demographic Studies, 29 per cent of women between the ages of 25 and 29 have had sex with at least 10 different men. J’adore!!!
In a similar survey conducted back in 2006, just eight per cent of women in the same age bracket said they’d bedded over ten men. Sociologist Marie Bergström described the trend as evidential of the “renewal of sexual practices and diversification of relations” in France.
Additionally, the recent survey found that 19 per cent of Gen Z women in France identify as something other than heterosexual. 10 per cent of young French women say they’re bisexual, while five per cent identify as pansexual.