Gen Z teens and Gen Alpha adolescents are also sick and tired of oversexualized characters, cliché ‘love triangle’ plotlines, franchises and remakes — in part tied to past research showing that young people are having less sex than ever before.

That’s the finding of a new psychological survey that quizzed 1,500 young people between the ages of 10 and 24 on their evolving media tastes.

Nearly half of the 13- to 24-year-olds surveyed, 47.5 percent, said that they felt sex was unnecessary to advance the storylines of most TV shows and films.

And a majority, 51.5 percent, wanted to see more depictions of friendship and platonic relationships on their screens.

[Well, who *isn’t* sick and tired of rom-com clichés like these? That’s not so much ‘woke’ as it is good taste. But the diffidence about on-screen sex may have something to do with the sex-identity confusion that we have created for younger Americans and the neutering — literally — of a generation. On the other hand, I don’t really see much of a reduction in on-screen sex, so either producers haven’t yet gotten the message, or the kids are still tuning in for the naughty bits. — Ed]