Tiny Dating Pools And ‘The Long Wait’: Why Young UK Mormons Are Still Choosing Celibacy

The church has roughly 17 million members worldwide, but in the UK and Europe the dating pool is tiny compared with Mormon hubs in the US. In places like Provo, Utah or Rexburg, Idaho, where church universities dominate entire towns, it’s common to go on several dates a week. In Europe, dates happen far less frequently — and, at a young adult conference in Norway last summer, we were told the average marriage age for church members in Europe is 32.8. In the US, it’s 22.

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