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Title: Americans Are Having Less Sex Than Ever

Link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/09/01/1614...

Americans are having a record low amount of sex -- even less than they did
during the Covid-19 pandemic -- according to a new study led by researchers
at the Institute for Family Studies. WSJ: This continues the downward shift
in sexual activity that has been worrying sociologists and psychologists for
decades. For the report, called "The Sex Recession," researchers at the IFS
analyzed the data on sex and intimacy in the latest General Social Survey
produced by NORC at the University of Chicago, which was collected in 2024
and released in May. They found that just 37% of people age 18-64 reported
having sex at least once a week, down from 55% in 1990. The decline is even
more striking for young adults: Almost a quarter of people age 18-29, or 24%,
said they had not had sex in the past year; this is twice as many as in 2010.
Much has been written in recent years about the trend of young people having
less sex, attributed to everything from stunted social skills to a rise in
internet pornography. Yet the IFS study shows that the same trend holds true
for people up to the age of 64, of all sexual orientations, both married and
single. (After age 64, there was no significant change in the amount of sex
people have, largely because this group reports having sex less frequently to
begin with, the researchers said.)

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