Swinging 60s had nothing on 90s, finds sex study

YOUNG women today are nearly three times more sexually active than those of their grandmothers’ generation in the liberal heyday of the Swinging 60s, according to a survey.

The study found that women in the so-called Noughties between 2000 and 2009 had an average of 5.65 different sexual partners by the time they were 24. Almost one in 10 of those asked claimed to have slept with more than 10 different partners.

By contrast, women who were in their early 20s in the 1960s had an average of 1.67 partners, and women of their mothers’ generation, aged 24 in the 1970s, had 3.72 sexual partners by the same age.