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IN THE age of Tinder and hook ups, twenty something's are having more sex than ever before right?

Wrong, a new study has found that so called millennials are getting down and dirty a whole lot less than their parents.

According to research from the Archives of Sexual Behaviour, millennials – those of us born between the mid-80s and 90s – are significantly less likely to have sex than our Generation X counterparts.

Young adults aged between 20 and 24 and born in the 1990s were more than twice as likely to report that they had had no sexual partners since the age of 18 than young adults of the same age born in the 1960s.

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The results clearly show a major shift in sexual attitude between generations and have been described as "fascinating" by reseachers.

So what's changed, when parents are worried about a sexting epidemic and young people are more exposed to porn than any other generation?

Could it be that people are too busy playing Pokemon Go, more inclined to swipe left then actually get between the sheets with someone in reality?

Or perhaps it's because sex no longer seems as illicit or taboo as it did for the baby boomers, who have perhaps served as a cautionary tale with teenage pregnancy statistics?

Young people are also coming under increasing pressure to climb the career ladder and are more focused on working hard than playing hard.

Body image could also come into force, after The National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyle found that 44.4% of sexually active young women don’t enjoy sex because they experience pain and anxiety.

Quite simply, millenials are bombarded with sex to the extent that they've been well and truly turned off.