Brad Coates – the lawyer with the book Divorce With Decency, Fifth Edition – once again puts his sociologist hat on as he describes “The Differing Dating and Mating, Marriage and Divorce, Sex and Romantic habits of Boomers and Millennials.”
Beginning with Boomer women having experienced more recreational sex and more sex partners, they seemed to experience more self-fulfillment over older traditions of duty and lifetime marriage at any cost. An AARP study showed that the Baby Boom generation was responsible for the extraordinary rise in marital instability after 1970. “Sex, Drugs, and Rock ‘n Roll” was the mantra – but they would never have kicked off the sexual revolution without the birth control pill. Now there are higher expectations for their relationships than in previous generations, and more grey divorces, the split or separation of older couples who have been married for a long time. The thicker remarriage market — in which older men and women have greater opportunities to find a partner after the death of a spouse or a divorce — partially comes as a result of over-50 online dating services. We also discussed Millennials and sex. Some are embracing the “New Monogamy.” Hookups seem to be better for men than for women, who report more sexual satisfaction in relational sex. “We hook up because we have no social skills. We have no social skills because we hook up,” is a quote that may describe a Millennial problem. In addition, there may be the paradox of choice – too many choices, but no actual ability to act on any one of them. There is so much more. Tune in!
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