States of Sexuality
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At the States of Sexuality academic researchers are anticipating the future of sexuality:
Pepper Schwartz, a professor of sociology at the University of Washington who has written numerous books including Everything You Know About Love and Sex is Wrong, agreed that notions of gender and sexuality had become more fluid. "There's been an extraordinary change among the youth of this country," she said. "They are no longer tied to sexual identity."
But, she wondered, is this a fad? Will young people desire more labels as they grow older? Even if so, she suggested, "It's good to have a nice flexible beginning. There's no need to fear that there will be no more sexual identities – some people will always want these. There always will be a politics of identity, but it might have a little more leeway, and I think that's a good thing."