Sex recession

37% of adults aged 18 to 64 say that they are having sex weekly or more in 2024, and it used to be 46%, which was recorded in 2010, and 55% in the 1990s.

So they're calling it a sex recession, which is absolutely depressing really, isn't it?

Do you know why, though?

Why?

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We see in the research when it comes to the sex recession is that back in 1990, [laughs] not too long ago, fifty-five percent of adults 18 to 64 were having sex at least once a week or more.

And in 2024, what we're seeing is that just thirty-seven, so slightly more than one in three adults in that kind of prime age are having sex weekly or more.

So this is really a, [laughs] a dramatic decline in sex.

Yeah, I mean, there, there is a slight uptick, obviously, right in the wake of, uh, COVID's, uh, [clears throat] demise or, or lifting, if you will.

But yeah, we haven't seen a dramatic increase in human socialization.

Um, and the sex recession has sort of continued a pace, basically, from our research at the Institute for Family Studies.

So yeah, I, I think, um, what's going on here is that there's obviously more than just, in this case, COVID.

I particularly liked this, though.

"That said, I don't think that there really is just one thing we can pin the sex recession," as it's called, on.

That's what they call it, the sex recession, because Gen Z and, uh, Millennials just are...

Uh, oh, the, the number of young people that haven't had sex has doubled in the last four years.

We were talking about this four-

I mean, it's screaming a weird direction.

Anyway, back to this.

"One thing we..." Uh, there's not just one thing we can pin the sex recession on.

Are we in a sex recession? Every other generation usually is going up.

This was the first time that we saw a decline.

I fear that a decent percentage of younger populations could end up thinking that regular humans aren't worth it.

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There was a great article by Kate Julian in The Atlantic that came out, gosh, I forget what year it is, maybe 2019, 2018, I think.

And it was the first time somebody that I had seen put the term Zapier Are we in a sex recession? And that was the first time looking at Gen Z and that they were every other generation usually is going up in their age of sex and the amount of sex that they're having with other people.

And this was the first time that we saw a decline.

And here we are 18.

Sleep wins.

Kara Kennedy spoke to the Americans behind the sex recession, and this is what they had to say.

"Emily is twenty-seven and lives in Texas.

She likes her boyfriend, finds him attractive, describes their four-year relationship as genuinely good.

What's going on? And how do we think about that through the lens we have been developing?

This is where the ancient wisdom and contemporary data intersect in genuinely fascinating ways.

There's been a significant body of research documenting what some writers have called the sex recession in American life.

The writer Kara Kennedy, engaging with survey data from the General Social Survey and related longitudinal studies, has documented a consistent decline in sexual frequency among American adults, including married couples, over roughly the past two decades.