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Young people are eager to have sex, but will post-pandemic hookups bring happiness or despair?

  • Written by Nicole K. McNichols, Associate Teaching Professor in Psychology, University of Washington
Young people are eager to have sex, but will post-pandemic hookups bring happiness or despair?Anecdotal evidence suggests that young adults are more than eager for sex after long months of socially isolating. filadendren/Getty Images

As an associate teaching professor who teaches a very large human sexuality class at the University of Washington, I benefit from frequent access to young people’s inner thoughts and desires surrounding...

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