By Hill’s estimation, different ideas about what sex means may have less to do with a generational gap and their upbringing, and more to do with forming the idea of “sex” into something that makes a person feel good about him or herself at the moment.
For instance, Hill hypothesized that “younger male participants may want to increase or decrease the number of partners at any given point so that would change the way they define sex.”…
Reinisch, who is now director of Acquisitions and New Exhibitions at The Museum of Sex in New York City, pointed out that the older men in the study were unlikely to label penile vaginal intercourse as “sex” if they were using a condom. One hundred percent of the men in the 18-29 age group called penile-vaginal intercourse with a condom sex, but only 82 percent of the men in the 65 and up age group considered sex with a condom sex.
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