Are We Overcomplicating Love and Sex?
Generational Divides with Nick Gillespie is streaming on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify.
Topic: Culture
Forget “happily ever after.” Today’s relationship questions aren’t just about who to marry — they’re about whether marriage, monogamy, or even parenthood are still worth aspiring to. If Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s wedding buzz has taught us anything, couples are asking uncomfortable questions long before they say “I do.” Young adults are having less sex than previous generations, birth rates continue to fall, and long-held assumptions about love are increasingly up for debate.
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 tackle some of today’s most provocative questions around sex and relationships:
Should Gen Z have more sex?
Is monogamy overrated?
Should people have more babies?
Whether you’re single, dating, married, or somewhere in between, it’s a lively, sometimes provocative debate about what love, fidelity, family, and sexuality should look like in the 21st century.
Our Debaters:
For Gen X: James J. Sexton, Divorce Lawyer
For Millennials: Carolyn Gorman, Fellow at the Manhattan Institute
For Gen Z: Malavika Kannan, Author and Writer of the "Quarter Life Crisis" Substack
Guest Moderator:
Nick Gillespie, Editor-at-Large at Reason
About Generational Divides:
Smart, contrarian, and funny, Generational Divides with Nick Gillespie embodies Open to Debate’s commitment to lively, nuanced discourse in an age of echo chambers. With provocative prompts, generationally diverse guests, and Gillespie’s trademark wit guiding the way, the series invites listeners to question their assumptions and join a conversation that’s as entertaining as it is enlightening.
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I think love is complicated. I also think that we are overcomplicating it by trying to dismantle structures that worked well. Until there are hundreds of millions of stable poly nuclear families, I don’t see non monogamy as a viable long term relationship model.
Another depressing view into the cluttered mind of Gen Z, if she indeed was representative of the generation.