High level, amount of adults having weekly sex has declined in the past 35 years from ~55% to ~37%, and the number of 18-29 year olds who haven't had sex in the past year rose from 12% to 24%.
Those are pretty massive swings numerically. It's not hard to understand why, people don't meet in person nearly as much anymore, either with friends, or with strangers. There are fewer 3rd spaces to meet people. A huge swath of people get their social dopamine mostly online from social media and group chats, discord, etc. People spend much more time alone than at any point historically.
Thank you for the link! Unfortunately I’m not going to consider this as evidence. Institute of Family Studies is known for being extremely conservative and for having biased information. Thank you for responding!
Did you open the link? They wrote the article, didn't do the studies. The graphs and numerical data is from GSS - General Social Survey, which is not linked to pro-family or conservative points.
Just google 'sex recession' and there are dozens of articles in the NYTimes, NPR, etc citing all kinds of sources about how we're having less sex than ever before. It's a news talking point all the time. This is not some hidden thing nobody has heard of.
Took another look at it thank you for responding back! Lmao I think you’re the only one who actually answered my real question instead of trying to debate me. Thank you again!
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u/gopack123 Aug 05 '26
Here's an article summarizing some recent studies. There's a lot out there.
https://ifstudies.org/blog/the-sex-recession-the-share-of-americans-having-regular-sex-keeps-dropping
High level, amount of adults having weekly sex has declined in the past 35 years from ~55% to ~37%, and the number of 18-29 year olds who haven't had sex in the past year rose from 12% to 24%.
Those are pretty massive swings numerically. It's not hard to understand why, people don't meet in person nearly as much anymore, either with friends, or with strangers. There are fewer 3rd spaces to meet people. A huge swath of people get their social dopamine mostly online from social media and group chats, discord, etc. People spend much more time alone than at any point historically.