“Y’all know I’m going boysober for a year”: how queer Gen Z rebranded celibacy
It’s no secret that LGBTQIA+ youth are ditching dating apps. Now, it looks like they’re leaving behind hook-up culture and going “sober”, aka celibate, when it comes to sex and relationships. We ask LGBTQIA+ Gen Zers why. WORDS BY ZOYA RAZA-SHEIKH HEADER DESIGN BY YOSEF PHELAN If you didn’t know, we’re in a “sex recession”. Off the back of a pandemic where lockdown restrictions effectively criminalised casual sex, few people would be surprised that attitudes towards relationships and intimacy have changed. Throughout the 2020s, headlines were splashed across the internet…
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