Someone tell all the porn producers and divorce lawyers that their services are no longer needed. I'm sure it will be a big relief for them, seeing as there is no money in either of those fields these days.

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Parents not bringing their seven-year-olds to R-rated movies must mean that teenagers aren't having sex anymore?

Kids these days. Hey junior, get the f*ck off facebook, put your cell phone down and smoke this joint. What the f*ck has gotten into you?!

I wonder how much of it has to do with the laxing morals of our culture?

That is... things are more appealing when they are forbidden... now-a-days under-aged drinking and drugs (to a lesser extent) are far more acceptable... so they are less appealing as some risky forbidden thing to do.

Similarly, we no longer pressure young women to get married the moment they get knocked up, and the age of first-time-married keeps going up and up - meaning more mature adults are entering into marriages they really want to be in rather than rushing in just because she got pregnant at 17. And who would've thought that rational adults getting married for the right reasons would be less likely to divorce?

/pure conjecture
//dnrtfa

People don't care about sex in movies because creepier, skankier, nastier sex is available for free in the privacy of their own computer for free.

kitryne: People don't care about sex in movies because creepier, skankier, nastier sex is available for free in the privacy of their own computer for free bedroom.

...if you're doing right.

Sex doesn't sell because it's trivial to find porn for free on the Internet.

UberDave: That and our music didn't suck too bad...

Every generation thinks their music didn't suck, everything that came before it was lame, and everything that came after is just noise.

They'll get over it.

Not ironic ... not even a little bit

Hey, old people, check this: I'm totally going to not do drugs and not get divorced...on your lawn! Suck it, fogeys! Stick it to the man!!!!

This same story has been put out continuously for the last twenty years, and kids are still getting high and farking.

Oh they do drugs. Pills, mostly.

/middle school teacher

So the BS trend piece is no longer monopolized by USAToday?

I guess this is the end of rainbow parties, teen hookers, the soulless hookup culture, sexting, and the epidemic of teen oral sex. Glad I don't have to worry about those trends any more.

Dumbass kids can't get anything right.

The top-grossing films in the study included movies like "Shrek 2;" "Spider-Man;" "Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith" and "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King," all of which contained mostly minor to mild sex and/or nudity.

What?

The Icelander: UberDave: That and our music didn't suck too bad...

Every generation thinks their music didn't suck, everything that came before it was lame, and everything that came after is just noise.

If you can't hum it, it ain't music!

/Bmm ch bmm ch bmm ch bmm ch

When you can see the most vile porn on demand for free seeing a set of tits in an R movie just ain't that great. And, kids do plenty of mood altering drugs nowadays they just happened to be prescribed to them.

I always thought I was being a rebel by not getting tattoos or earrings.

Also, while sexting is great, BUTTsexting is awesome!

Of course sex doesn't sell, except when it comes to advertising... when you're trying to sell someone something.

JerseyTim: New form of rebellion against the older generation includes "not doing drugs, not sleeping around and not getting divorced."

New?


Niiiiiiiice!


And also, what, is the tag busy getting laid or something? I do not have any confidence in the veracity of this story. CNN has a horrid history when it comes to reporting shiat like this, and the professor's evidence to the claim in the headline boils down to, 'I think that's what the kids in my class are probably like.' Real scientific.