Generational Divides with Nick Gillespie: Are We Overcomplicating Love and Sex?

Forget "happily ever after." As marriage and birth rates fall, young adults have less sex, and assumptions about love and commitment are being challenged. In this episode of “Generational Divides,” Reason editor-at-large Nick Gillespie brings together a Gen X-er, a Millennial, and a Gen Z-er to debate these questions about intimacy and love in the 21st century: Should Gen Z have more sex? Is monogamy overrated? Should people have more babies? 

For Gen X: James J. Sexton, Divorce Lawyer and Author of "How to Stay in Love" 

For Millennials: Carolyn Gorman, Fellow at the Manhattan Institute 

For Gen Z: Malavika Kannan, Author and Writer of the "Quarter Life Crisis" Substack 

Nick Gillespie, Editor-at-Large at Reason, is the guest moderator. 

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