Are the kids ok?

Why do I ask? Well, for one thing, "During a recent trip to the US, I had lunch with a young man from New York, who told me glumly that many of his peers had spent the summer swanning around Europe while he stayed put in America. ...  I peered at his phone and saw images of the girls draped over each other in terrace restaurants, on  the prows of boats, laid along tree branches in thong bikinis, glowing with the gold-dust of fine living. ... the reason they, rather than the young man, were able to go yachting off Sardinia while sipping Dom Pérignon was because rich older men ­had hired them to come on a luxury holiday with them. The job — look hot, be nice, and be ready to accommodate more without crying assault — is called sugaring. It is — though sugar daddies or babies might not admit it — sex work. My friend betrayed no sense of surprise at the arrangement; such things had, he explained, become totally normal in his age group." More here.

And then there's this: "Just two weeks after meeting on Tinder, an Atlanta college student drew up a 17-page 'relationship contract' with her boyfriend in which she outlined expectations for their coupling — including a 'romantic gesture' every two weeks. ...'We treat our relationship almost like a business interaction. We deal with conflict like partners in business would. We sit down and treat it more like we're partners in life and love is an added bonus,' she explained."

And then I read that Amia Srinivasan's "female students regularly report that they regard their erotic lives as “at once inevitable and insufficient"". 

Given how difficult and/or unpleasant it is to have a relationship with a man, I suppose I should not be surprised that, "According to private polling shared with Intelligencer by Democratic data scientist David Shor, roughly 30 percent of American women under 25 identify as LGBT; for women over 60, that figure is less than 5 percent." 30%, eh? 

It's not just in America. Here's what they are finding in the UK:

Perhaps they agree with Srinivasan's view that "who we have sex with, and how, is a political question".