Big news in the world of millennial dating trends: A comprehensive study of 5000 millennials has discovered that single young people these days are all about sex before a first date compared to “all other generations” of singles. There’s a pretty good reason for this, according to anthropologists paid to speculate about these sort of trends: Everyone is busy and focused on what they have to do to get ahead in their professional lives, so millennials like to cut to chase and get the banging out of the way before actually going on a date. via USA Today:
While the rule of thumb may have been wait to have sex until a third date, 34% of singles have had sex before a first date, and Millennials are 48% more likely to have sex before a first date than all other generations of singles, according to the annual Singles in America survey, funded by Dallas-based dating service Match and conducted by Research Now.
Millennials especially are unencumbered by fears that may have held people back from having sex in the past, says Helen Fisher a biological anthropologist and chief scientific adviser to Match, who helped develop the representative survey of more than 5,000 singles.
“We have a real misunderstanding of Millennials,” she said. “I think they are very career oriented, so sex before the first date could be a sex interview, where they want to know if they want to spend time with this person.”
The study also discovered a major turn-off for millennials: Cracked phone screens.
Oh, and that cracked phone you’re waiting to upgrade? Time to lose it, according to Fisher.
“Singles don’t like people who have a cracked phone, or an old phone or those who use a clicking sound when typing,” she says, citing the survey. “I think we will see more of these taboos as singles are leading the way in expressing new forms of politeness in the technological era.”
Pretty sure green bubbles when texting someone who doesn’t have an iPhone belongs on that list as well. Like, ugh… Just get an iPhone already.
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I can't deal with you if you still have green bubbles
— 2Legit2Quit (@SmallsLeek3) February 9, 2015
Texting someone with green bubbles such a turn off. I'm petty.
— 🤴🏽 (@RawRylo) February 8, 2015
It's so awful but I stop trusting a person once I text them n it's green bubbles
— the universe’s favorite (@hayphamily) February 10, 2015