Are young people really having as much sex as you think they are?

By Rachel Hills
Updated August 7 2015 - 10:18am, first published July 27 2015 - 12:00am
"Everyone assumes that others are having better sex, and more of it, than they actually are," writes Rachel Hills.  Photo: Stocksy
"Everyone assumes that others are having better sex, and more of it, than they actually are," writes Rachel Hills. Photo: Stocksy
"Everyone assumes that others are having better sex, and more of it, than they actually are," writes Rachel Hills.  Photo: Stocksy
"Everyone assumes that others are having better sex, and more of it, than they actually are," writes Rachel Hills. Photo: Stocksy

When I was in my late teens and early 20s, I was consumed by sex. Not by the physical urge to have it, although I had my share of crushes and unfulfilled desires. Nor was I overly concerned with the particulars of how I might go about it, although I studiously read Cosmopolitan each month so that I would know what to do when the occasion arose. My obsession was more esoteric. I was consumed by the idea of sex – by what it meant and by what it might reveal about who I was.

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