The margins have already begun to creep. The article illustrates points that I’ve made in comments here and at Millennialstar.org. Especially how the changes start in the younger age cohorts and accelerate with each upcoming age group.
The shocking, to me, stat is that 6% of the current 18-24 age group self identify as “fully gay” compared to 4% of the whole population. That’s a 50% increase in the incidence rate.
And this in a society that has only recently legalized SSM. Which I contend will be the knee-of-the-curve due to the widespread destigmatizing/promotional effects to come as same-sex couples will feature more prominently in entertainment media, advertising, and academic curricula.
The current 18-24 age cohort did not grow up with the full-on SSM (ie official societal/governmental acceptance of same sex sexual behavior) media/education programming during their formative years. Children age four and younger now, and all children yet to be born, will spend their entire formative years being exposed to a new socio-sexual paradigm in media and academia that explicitly and implicitly tells them “There’s absolutely nothing wrong with sex with the same sex.”
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