Young people aren't desensitized to intimacy, despite what older generations assume. After thirty years working with multiple age groups, the speaker finds the same complaints surface about every new cohort. Bodily autonomy still matters deeply to young people.
Now, this one is interesting. Anybody know where this one comes from, where this perception comes from, that kids today are more desensitized to intimacy? Because it tends to come from media and entertainment. People assume that this is true, but it's not. Kids are still sensitized to intimacy. It's still a big deal. If somebody does something they don't want done with their body, it's a big deal. Even today, in both groups, you could get a sense that the students understood that people shouldn't be doing things with people's bodies that that person doesn't want done. So they're not desensitized. That's just often an older generation acting like a younger generation's not caring, and that's been done to every generation as they came up. To be clear, it has. I've been doing this work for 30 years, and I've heard that kind of comment with each generation that has come through those 30 years.
