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I'd disagree with this, but it's easier to just point out that the trendline is for higher and higher proportions of the population to become sexually inactive.
by Amezarak 2y ago
I'd disagree with this, but it's easier to just point out that the trendline is for higher and higher proportions of the population to become sexually inactive.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/people-have-been-having-less-sex-whether-theyre-teenagers-or-40-somethings/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/people-have-been-...
> The decreases “aren’t trivial,” as the authors wrote in the study, published on November 19 in Archives of Sexual Behavior. Between 2009 and 2018, the proportion of adolescents reporting no sexual activity, either alone or with partners, rose from 28.8 percent to 44.2 percent among young men and from 49.5 percent in 2009 to 74 percent among young women.
The underlying paper has more demographic breakdowns:
> Wellings et al. (2019)—using three waves of data from the UK’s National Surveys of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles (Natsal) completed in 1991, 2001, and 2012—found that frequency of sex among 16–44 year olds had declined, more so among married participants and those in the 35–44 age group.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-021-02125-2 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-021-02125-2
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https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/all-about-sex/202106/why-people-are-having-so-much-less-sex-today https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/all-about-sex/2021...