"Copenhagen on the Thursday before Valentine's Day is intoxicatingly romantic. That's not hyperbole you could breathe in and be drunk on it. The canals have frozen over, which only happens about once every 13 years, and couples are skating on them. You can see cosy bars from miles away because they're strung with fairy lights apparently not just a Christmas thing here. Everyone is beautiful."
"Some of the data is starkly depressing: one US study from 2023 found that 24% of adults aged 18 to 29 reported no sexual activity at all in the past year. A global sex habits survey by Feeld and Kinsey's the following year found that 37% of gen Z reported no sex in the last month, compared to 19% of millennials and 17% of gen X."
Copenhagen in mid-February feels intensely romantic, with frozen canals that allow couples to skate and fairy-lit bars visible from afar. Spring brings a 'post-hibernation fever' described by locals, prompting widespread outdoor swimming and a visible sexual energy. International surveys show rising sexual inactivity among young adults, with one US study finding 24% of 18–29-year-olds reporting no sexual activity in a year and a global survey noting 37% of gen Z had no sex in the previous month. Danish sexual activity rates remain comparatively high across age groups, and the average age of sexual initiation in Denmark has stayed at 16.4 since the 1950s.
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