Not only has progress been made by todays youth in encouraging equality to LGBT communities, but some prejudices surrounding casual sex and unorthodox sexual activities are beginning to be acknowledged and challenged by the youth of today. Society has previously tended to condemn and scrutinise women in particular for creating the negative impression of promiscuity and sexual transgression implied when they engage in casual or recreation sex. Feminist movements of the modern millennial era have taken the stance to defend these women demanding that their right to sexual liberation is just as important as men’s. This is also reflected in recent arguments about the development of a birth control pill for men. The birth control pill was revolutionary to the young women of the 60s whose lives changed, allowing them to have control over their family plans, further education and career.
Todays youth are seeing and supporting another step towards achieving gender equality, through the creation of a birth control pill for men. Contraceptive pills allow both men and women to have casual sex without the risk of pregnancy or sexually transmitted infections. Currently, birth control tends to be an issue attributed only to women, who must get some form of implant or use the pill. Male contraception, however, would remove the sole pressure of birth control from women and move it into shared territory, making sexual life for both men and women easier, and the risk of unwanted pregnancy even lower. Creating a male contraceptive implies that men and women should have equal responsibility over their sexual activities and infers that men and women should have equal sexual rights in todays society. As casual sex tends to be centralised largely in the youth, (not wanting pregnancy, being very young themselves), this issue has been taken up largely by the youth demographic and spread through social media and enforced in petitions to continue the development of male contraceptive pills.
"Every teenager deals in his or her own sexuality and has to face it and figure out how it can coincide with the rest of their lives in a healthy manner. And try to navigate it in our modern society, which is wrought with stigma and taboo and repression, and sort of as a result, these inner monsters that some teenagers really struggle with"
-Ezra Miller
Millennials.