Sounds like a pretty stupid question really, doesn't it, "why is there so much teenage sex?". Anyone who remembers the hormonal agonies of the teenage years will wonder what on earth is being talked about. What do you mean "so much teenage sex"? There's never been enough, has there?
But this is to look from only the male side. There has been a huge change on the female side over the last century. And, as anyone (perhaps everyone) who remembers those teenage years, it's the girls who decide whether sex is going to happen, not the boys.
Yes, that is a huge change. No, it's not the decline of religion, of the abolishment of the patriarchy. There's something much more fundamental here. Yes, the reason there's so much teenage sex is all to do with economics.
The 20th century saw, for the first time, mass manufactured contraception. Condoms in the 1920s, the pill in the 1960s. This reduced the liklihood of pregnancy for those women who engaged in premarital sex….and, of course, such pregnancy was the major cost that women faced.
The cost of something comes down, more of that thing will be desired and demanded. Pretty simply stuff really. So, yes, the growth in teenage sex really is all about supply and demand curves.
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