Is Nature Healing?

Claiming to be bisexual is becoming cringe among young women. Is anything else improving for the young?

Social scientist Jean Twenge, whose book Generations I reviewed in Taki’s Magazine in 2023, points out that in the latest big federal survey, the percentage of young women age 18 to 24 claiming to be bisexual has continued to drop after almost tripling from 8% in 2014-15 to a peak of 23% in 2022.

By 2025, the figure is down under 18%: still a ridiculous fad, but at least one that has crested.

Is anything else getting healthier?

I looked at CDC death counts for American residents ages 15-44 of both sexes by month from January 2018 through August 2025. (The CDC imposes a 6 month lag on reporting the counts of the more fraught types of death to give coroners time to render their considered judgement: e.g., was this death an accidental overdose, suicide, or homicide by poisoning? But that means I only have data through last August.)

I graphed trends for both Case and Deaton’s Deaths of Despair (overdose, suicide, and alcoholic liver disease) and Sailer’s Deaths of Exuberance (homicides and motor vehicle accidents — which you could also call Deaths of Depolicing).

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