Erica Jong claimed in a recent NYT editorial that sometimes she thinks the younger (=my) generation wants to give up sex.
(http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/10/opinion/sunday/10sex.html)

I'll quote here the two paragraphs that stood out to me:

"People always ask me what happened to sex since “Fear of Flying.” While editing an anthology of women’s sexual writing called “Sugar in My Bowl” last year, I was fascinated to see, among younger women, a nostalgia for ’50s-era attitudes toward sexuality. The older writers in my anthology are raunchier than the younger writers. The younger writers are obsessed with motherhood and monogamy."

I guess it's true that not many of my female friends are interested in free love. Are anybody else's? Of any generation? There's no stigma to having serial relationships, and a lot of sex before marriage; but it's true, we don't feel like random hookups are so interesting. Does that really make us "less raunchy"? I think it makes us products of a world with AIDS and way too many people.

"The backlash against sex has lasted longer than the sexual revolution itself. Both birth control and abortion are under attack in many states. Women’s health care is considered expendable in budgetary negotiations. And the right wing only wants to champion unborn children. (Those already born are presumed able to fend for themselves."

No argument there.