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Americans Are Having Less Sex Than 20 Years Ago, Study Finds (arstechnica.com)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: American adults reported having nine fewer romps a year in the early 2010s than they did in the late 1990s -- dropping from an average of about 62 times a year between 1995 and 2000 to around 53 a year between 2010 and 2014. Researchers saw declines across ages, races, religions, education levels, employment statuses, and regions. They linked the sagging numbers to two trends: an increase in singletons over that period -- who tend to have less sex than married or partnered people -- plus a slow-down in the sex lives of married and coupled people. But the drivers of those trends are still unclear. The study is based on data from a long-standing national survey called the General Social Survey (GSS). It involves a nationally representative sample of Americans over 18 years old, surveyed most years between 1972 and 2014. The new study involved responses from 26,620 Americans. Specifically, researchers found that married people's annual whoopee frequency dropped from an average of nearly 69 in the 1995-2000 period to just below 56 in the 2010-2014 period. The unmarried saw their lovemaking drop from 54 per year to 51 in the same timeframes. Meanwhile, the number of people without steady partners -- married or otherwise -- rose from 26 percent of survey respondents in 2006 to 33 percent in 2014. People who took the biggest hits in the bedroom since the 1990s were those with a college degree (about 15 fewer times a year) and people living in the South (about 13 fewer times a year). The study has been published in the journal Archives of Sexual Behavior.

391 comments

  1. Theory number one: by Shane_Optima · · Score: 2

    Too much Netflix, not enough chill?

    1. Re:Theory number one: by Narcocide · · Score: 1

      "Stranger Things" was really good.

    2. Re:Theory number one: by s.petry · · Score: 1

      Hand lotion sales begs to differ with the report.

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    3. Re: Theory number one: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      They don't need fapping lotion in places where men have normal (non-mutilated) dicks.

    4. Re:Theory number one: by Joce640k · · Score: 3, Interesting

      I can save the "reserachers" a lot of time: People are having less sex because they're not as bored as before.

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    5. Re:Theory number one: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      More like too fat to find it,

    6. Re: Theory number one: by Zero__Kelvin · · Score: 0

      Wow ... If boredom is your number 1 motivator for sex you must be a real blast (in under a minute I'm guessing)

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    7. Re: Theory number one: by thegarbz · · Score: 1

      You masturbate by rubbing your penis inside the "non-mutilated" flappy bits? Why do you hate yourself so much?

      Get some lube, regardless what your penis looks like, it'll only feel several orders of magnitude better.

    8. Re: Theory number one: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      Is that statement the result of extensive research you made into the matter?

    9. Re: Theory number one: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Is that statement the result of extensive research you made into the matter?

      Since it is clear from his post that he has no 'flappy bits', and quite obviously does not know how they work, the answer is likely to be: no, he's just blowing smoke out of his posterior.

    10. Re:Theory number one: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Less time having sex, more time looking for the job that's going to replace the one you just got to replace the one that you got laid off from.

      Welcome to the 21st Century!

    11. Re: Theory number one: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      So you're saying uncircumcised men masturbate more? Well that makes sense since women don't like uncut dicks.

    12. Re: Theory number one: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      More people being honest about how much they get?

      Maybe, just maybe, everyone willing to take that survey in the past were too socially embarrassed to admit their lives did not align with the movie and lied.

    13. Re: Theory number one: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Why not just spit?

    14. Re: Theory number one: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Nobody likes uncut.

    15. Re: Theory number one: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Lol. I think it's more like too much Netflix, too many Doritos and IPAs. Most Americans aren't just brain dead and lazy, but very, very FAT. From the standpoint of physical exertion, it's probably easier to just yank it. :P Scientifically, over-consumption (in everything) paired with over-medication probably all but kills a lot of people's libidos.

    16. Re: Theory number one: by Hognoxious · · Score: 1

      The UK went on the three day week in Q1 1974 due to various strikes and supposedly there was a mini baby-boom later.

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    17. Re: Theory number one: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You maybe shouldn't believe everything told to you, like this and that small dicks are just as good.

    18. Re: Theory number one: by Khyber · · Score: 1

      Uhh, actually sales of lubricant is higher in countries where circumcision is less-practiced. Dry-dogging simply sucks.

      I worked in porn. I've done a LOT of shipping internationally. USA exports more lube than it imports.

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    19. Re:Theory number one: by Gr8Apes · · Score: 1

      I can save the "reserachers" a lot of time: People are having less sex because they're not as bored as before.

      Perhaps they shouldn't have polled the same group?

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    20. Re: Theory number one: by Megol · · Score: 1

      Retractable protective hood is a better description. Women have the equivalent (clitoral hood) and removal of that hood is generally seen as sexual mutilation (though better than many other types of sexual mutilation). In both sexes the protective hood is also a sensitive organ in itself with more nerve endings than normal skin and in both sexes natural lubrication is provided "for free".

      So no, unless the owner of the non-mutilated penis have problem with the natural lubrication (and then normal spit works) not only will extra lubrication not add anything significant but the existence of an extra erogenous zoooone* will probably make the experience better.

      (* a good woody word)

    21. Re: Theory number one: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I'll take the tradeoff any day, it helps prevent STDs and infection.

      And it doesn't decrease the length, so please don't use that excuse, we're not buying it.

    22. Re: Theory number one: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You're an idiot but I guess you (think) you got a really clever insult in so congratulations.

    23. Re: Theory number one: by fahrbot-bot · · Score: 1

      I've done a LOT of shipping internationally. USA exports more lube than it imports.

      The export/import ratio isn't necessarily meaningful, locals could be buying local products.

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    24. Re: Theory number one: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      How old were you when you made that choice?

    25. Re: Theory number one: by thegarbz · · Score: 1

      Yes. I had puberty and touched myself. Shocking I know.

    26. Re: Theory number one: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Get some lube, regardless what your penis looks like, it'll only feel several orders of magnitude better.

      Is that statement the result of extensive research you made into the matter?

      Yes. I had puberty and touched myself. Shocking I know.

      Your claim that "it'll only feel several orders of magnitude better [..] regardless what your penis looks like" can be safely dismissed unless you're actually speaking from personal experience as someone who's uncircumcised.

      Speaking as someone who's uncut- and not an American- I wasn't even aware that I was "supposed" to use lubricant for that activity when I was growing up. I heard about it at some point, and tried it with lube a couple of times just to see what it was like. All I remember is it added absolutely nothing beyond some extra inconvenience and stuff to clean up and never bothered again.

      At that time, I didn't realise that it was something most Americans did because it's uncomfortable to masturbate it without if you're circumcised. Not my problem, fortunately!

    27. Re: Theory number one: by Dogtanian · · Score: 1

      Retractable protective hood is a better description. Women have the equivalent (clitoral hood)

      Yes, it's a small, dark pink fold of skin that protects the clitoris during intercourse. In other words, a little red riding hood.

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    28. Re:Theory number one: by cheesybagel · · Score: 1

      Want to know how the Qin Chinese managed to do a population boom? They basically forced teenagers out of their parent's houses and the state provided them with land to build a house if they married. Guess what's bleeping expensive right now.

      Between expensive houses and needing to study longer to get a decent job its unsurprising people don't bother really.

    29. Re:Theory number one: by Pfhorrest · · Score: 1

      That's a reason people aren't having kids, but kids are no longer a necessary consequence of sex. My girlfriend and I don't want kids, but if we did we would get married first, and we do want to get married, but there's not much point in being married if you can't live together, and we can't afford to live together without sacrificing our entire futures (being "house poor" and unable to save for retirement), so even if we wanted kids we wouldn't be up for having them until probably after she's able to, thanks to stupidly ridiculous housing costs.

      But that doesn't stop us from having plenty of sex in the meantime.

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    30. Re: Theory number one: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      .1 percent reduction in std transfer when you boink infected partner without a condom. Why not just use a condom? I think that information does more harm than good.

    31. Re: Theory number one: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Get yourself one of these. Fill it with warm water instead of air.

      Prepare to have your mind blown!

    32. Re:Theory number one: by syntotic · · Score: 1

      Many more Muslims and Africans and Indians, so you impose Islam four-no-more rule and ipso facto, less sex, less women, less Europeans, less babies, more men, army, less people and go live in a desert because in those conditions it works. This is mechanical, so it is the theory because it is how things work. The proof is by construction.

  2. Distractions by ahziem · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Correlation with the rise of smartphones, tablets, social media, video on demand, ubiquitous porn, and poor interpersonal skills?

    1. Re:Distractions by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Hardest hit were those with a college degree so probably more to do with worklife balance. But the real story here is the annual average for married couples dropped from 69.

    2. Re:Distractions by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Make america bang again! Our current politicians are all talk no banging. Even the president lives separate from his wife. Where are the days when the president was all randy? they are gone, so sad.

    3. Re:Distractions by hey! · · Score: 2, Insightful

      And with "if you look at me in the wrong way you are a rapist" style feminism.

      Seriously, if you have experienced that "style" of feminism in person (as opposed to on social media), I suspect the problem may be your demeanor.

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    4. Re: Distractions by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Correlation with the rise of third wave feminism and the independence of women. Competition is harder for men to get laid and women are more selective on their sex partners than 20 years ago.

    5. Re: Distractions by Zontar+The+Mindless · · Score: 2

      That doesn't explain the decrease for people with partners/spouses very well.

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    6. Re:Distractions by lucasnate1 · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Sure, and anyone who experienced and complained about mccarthyism must be a soviet supporting red, right? A friend of mine had to deal with false accusations so I know for sure that this kind of feminism exists (and I know they are false accusations for sure, because the girl herslef said they are false, the accusations were made by a third-side feminist who thought she knew better than both of them).

    7. Re: Distractions by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Sure it does. The women at the house are fed up with their "no good husbands" and have went on strike. They want all the positives of being a woman (the ATM card, the pampering) but not the negatives (being a homemaker, cooking, cleaning, sucking a dick)

    8. Re:Distractions by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      Probably that's part of it. But, a lot of it has to do with where you're located. Around here the women literally won't sleep with you if you haven't got a 6 figure salary. I've heard that in other parts of the country where there's fewer men and more women, the women are stuck actually putting out occasionally if they want to keep a man in their life.

      But, I think overall, there's a lot of stress and a lot of access to other things to do that are probably a bigger factor.

    9. Re:Distractions by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      When was the last time you went to college? 1982? I suspect the lack of current data is on your side.

    10. Re:Distractions by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

      Seriously, if you have experienced that "style" of feminism in person (as opposed to on social media), I suspect the problem may be your demeanor.

      Clearly you haven't visited a university campus in the last decade. Even professors will act that way. There is a reason why the percentage of men in college, let alone graduating, is below 40% and dropping every year.

    11. Re:Distractions by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      AMEN. Thanks to the love of GOD and the faithful we have now Donald J Trump as president. He will lead America back to GOD again.

    12. Re:Distractions by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      He inherited a MESS. A cesspit of sinfulness and fouldom. A temple of SATAN. He is cleaning it up, and cleaning it up he will be.

    13. Re:Distractions by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You probably tip your fedora too much.

    14. Re:Distractions by ClickOnThis · · Score: 5, Insightful

      He hates the fags and he hates the godless. Of both of them there are too many.

      Then why does He keep making them?

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    15. Re:Distractions by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      The devil leads us into temptation so that we become faggot sodomists and commit other sins throughout our life to land in hell to be in physical pain for the rest of eternity. YOU MUST REPEL THE DEVIL NOW AND JOIN THE FAITH.

    16. Re:Distractions by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      > I suspect the problem may be your demeanor.

      No, it's my wife's "therapist" who "specializes in neuro-atpical ADHD", but has no degree, no training, and no clinical experience. But see, she's transgender and switched gender 3 times in the last 3 years and now identifies as "non-gendered", so she *must* know everything about spousal relationships, right? (And no, I'm not being rude. She calls herself "she" this week.) And she lectures for the "Center for Self Leadership", which has no accreditation and provides no credentials whatsoever and refuses to provides grades, and whose own instructors say "training is irrelevant".

      But hey, they take people's money, so they *must* be useful, right? For relationships, and sex therapy (for which I know two of their instructors), and relationship therapy, and feeling "empowered" and like you "listen to your inner voices". Everything but actually keeping a relationship intact.

    17. Re:Distractions by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Or perhaps american's are just more honest when surveyed than they used to be.

      social science is such an oxymoron

    18. Re: Distractions by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      What you are doing right now is called "blaming the victim", though.

    19. Re:Distractions by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      the population is getting older and the older you get, the equipment doesn't work as well as it used to.

    20. Re:Distractions by TechyImmigrant · · Score: 4, Funny

      You probably tip your fedora too much.

      I downloaded it at no additional charge.

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    21. Re:Distractions by whoever57 · · Score: 2

      And in how many cases, the victim is pressured to falsely withdraw a true claim of rape? It happens. How often? Nobody knows because no one in a suitable position wants to gather such statistics. Just like other statistics that show the police in a bad light are not collected.

      Read this case in which a woman who was proven to be the victim of rape was let down by the police, forced to withdraw her claim, prosecuted for a false report, yet was eventually vindicated.

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    22. Re:Distractions by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It's better to let a thousand guilty go free than to punish an innocent. So hopefully less than one in a thousand.

    23. Re:Distractions by Applehu+Akbar · · Score: 1

      When was the last time you went to college? 1982? I suspect the lack of current data is on your side.

      For me it was 1969. Did you know that college students had sex back then? With each other even, and no Junior Anti-Sex League campus tribunal to stop them? And lots and lots of it, too.

      I see only too clearly what today's problem is.

    24. Re:Distractions by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Women are more empowered now so more men are experiencing the truth. We no longer let as many men talk us into doing something we don't want to do.

    25. Re:Distractions by lucasnate1 · · Score: 1

      I am not denying that such cases exist, I am just claiming that saying automatically that everyone who is antifeminist or believes in false accusations is automatically a rapist himself is wrong.

    26. Re:Distractions by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Women hate sex? What are they useful for then?

    27. Re:Distractions by war4peace · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Also fear. Vague, insidious fear which turns people off.
      For decades the media has been dripping vague fears into our collective souls. fear of disease, of being mugged, attacked, bombed, fear of weather, fear of you-name-it. People have become risk-adverse for reasons they most times can't even name.
      "Let's not engage in X activity!" "Why?" "Because it's dangerous!"

      I've seen kids on trikes wearing more protection than a SWAT team member. I've seen people afraid to go for a swim because "this lake might be polluted". Eating fish at a restaurant? "It might have too much mercury". Inviting a co-worker out? "they might report me to HR for sexual harassment".

      People are more fearful of this and that than ever. It's collective madness.

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    28. Re:Distractions by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      But God makes and wills everything, including the Devil and the dominion he presides over, so surely He bears some responsibility for all this?

    29. Re:Distractions by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Your comment makes quite a number of unfounded assumptions: 1) that He directly makes them (as opposed to letting existing processes make them); 2) that all the ones being made are still being made from the original mold (i.e., that they're all factory original perfect as soon as they come into existence), and so on. You won't get your opponent to agree with any of those assumptions. Not that I'm agreeing with your opponent here, but your counter-argument isn't solid.

    30. Re:Distractions by DarkOx · · Score: 1

      Which is precisely why we need to use the old common law definition of rape. Which requires either a whiteness or a whiteness immediately after the fact who can testify to distress and injury that occurred. Rape is a very very serious crime and it should prosecuted and punished most severely!

      People need to understand though that if you either don't physically resist or there isn't a whiteness to the fact that you did not have any choice or both than its not rape. Which is not say it can't be a lessor crime like sexual assault, simple assault, blackmail, you name it just not rape and the severity of consequences that carries for whom we otherwise have only your word is a perpetrator.

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    31. Re:Distractions by hey! · · Score: 1

      No, but there are lots of creepy men.

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    32. Re:Distractions by hey! · · Score: 1

      With you, maybe.

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    33. Re:Distractions by lucasnate1 · · Score: 1

      And lots of creepy women. I have this "chauvinistic" opinion that men and women are similar and mostly equal, creepiness is no exception.

    34. Re:Distractions by lucasnate1 · · Score: 1

      1) And lots of creepy women. I have this "chauvinistic" opinion that men and women are similar and mostly equal, creepiness is no exception.
      2) I think many of these creepy men call themselves feminists nowadays.

    35. Re:Distractions by Qzukk · · Score: 4, Insightful

      People are more fearful of this and that than ever. It's collective madness.

      When there are no more second chances, people stop taking the first chance.

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    36. Re:Distractions by Gr8Apes · · Score: 1

      Your comment makes quite a number of unfounded assumptions: ... Not that I'm agreeing with your opponent here, but your counter-argument isn't solid.

      His statement directly correlates to the omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent core belief. Either you believe in that, and therefore his statement follows naturally, or you don't believe in those three tenants, and then the entire religion comes crumbling down since the entire belief system is based on those three being true. Enjoy.

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    37. Re:Distractions by Gr8Apes · · Score: 1

      He should start with his twitter account. That should keep him busy until the next election.

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    38. Re:Distractions by whoever57 · · Score: 2

      Which is precisely why we need to use the old common law definition of rape. Which requires either a whiteness or a whiteness immediately after the fact who can testify to distress and injury that occurred

      You didn't read that article, did you? Or you did not read it through.

      One of the most important facts that the article exposes is that people who are raped don't always show the reactions that would be commonly expected.

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    39. Re:Distractions by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      God hates sins, not people. Sins are behaviors, not objects. So sins have never been created, rather they are behaviors of people with agency to decide whether or not to perform those actions.

      So that's a +5 non sequitur.

    40. Re:Distractions by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      surely He bears some responsibility for all this?

      Some?

    41. Re:Distractions by parkinglot777 · · Score: 1

      For decades the media has been dripping vague fears into our collective souls ...

      Please clarify the word media. If you are talking about people, then I would agree. However, if you are talking about tools/contents, e.g. news, newspaper, advertisement, etc., then I have to disagree. Why? Because it is an intention of people who make/create the news that want to deliver/push their messages to viewers, not the news as a media itself. Thus, media is simply a tool and it can't push out messages by itself.

      However, one could counter the fear with education+knowledge (academic is only a part of education). This education in this case is similar to doing research. Nowadays, it is easy to look for information, but one must be open minded in order to gather enough informations for more useful/accurate analysis. The sad part is that many people don't seek knowledge/education. If they do, they aren't open minded but rather seek only informations that confirm their belief... So the fear won't go away...

    42. Re:Distractions by war4peace · · Score: 1

      OK, here's an example.
      About a month and a half ago we had 4 to 6 inches of snow overnight in my region. My mother-in-law who lives about 250 miles away calls me the next day, all panicked because the TV stations, radio stations and newspapers all were reporting the snow in panic mode: "the white hell", "people are snowed in", "all roads are blocked" and so on. Schools were closed as well.
      I had no problem going anywhere within the city limits, by mid-day there was no snow on any of the main streets and most secondary streets. Sure, many of the really small and narrow streets still had snow on them and one would have to be careful while driving there (lower clearance cars would get stuck for a while) but there was no service interruption (talking about electricity, water, Internet, etc).

      How was she to inform herself when every media outlet would decry the horrible weather conditions (which were simply not there)?

      Truth is really easy to hide behind a wall of exaggerations. It's valid for pretty much every aspect of one's life, from health-related things ("milk is poisonous") to IT-related stuff ("the whole world is full of hackers all ready to destroy your life and steal all your money").
      People have a natural tendency to "play it safe" and all these (greatly exaggerated) "dangers" and "threats" and "catastrophes", repeated for years and years, some for decades influence one's life in the long term. People spend more time looking out for possible dangers and forget to just enjoy life, sex included.

      My wife is worrying about a helluva lot of things, most of them which could be safely ignored, and yes that affects our life, including sexually. A couple years ago, during prelude, she suddenly blurts "we should stop buying milk, I've read it's bad for our health".

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    43. Re: Distractions by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Its called changing thier mind. Its lying. Maybe they need lessons in how to be raped?

      1) say no. Yell scream.
      2) physically resist. Even if you get hit in the head with the gun or stabbed to death (then its murder)
      3) in all seriousness, go to the police immediately after. Ohh too drunk? Not rape.

    44. Re:Distractions by Maxo-Texas · · Score: 1

      It's more than that. If you search for groups helping females attend college, you'll get a huge list.

      If you search for groups helping males, you'll be hard pressed to find any groups that help males exclusively.

      As we pass 60% female, perhaps we should start helping young men again.

      I worked at a company where 70% of lower management was female. And yet they still were pushing "diversity" and female was considered more "diverse" than male. (Upper management was not at all diverse. Almost all 55+ white males.).

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    45. Re:Distractions by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      you are a fucking fagot grow some balls and stop acting like anyone is obligated to suck your dick

    46. Re:Distractions by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Just stick a dildo and a Brad Pitt mask on an ATM and you can satisfy 95% of women.

    47. Re:Distractions by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I can't rule out the existence of God with 100% certainty, but I certainly can't believe an omniscient, omnipotent God somehow managed to create a world which was not what he wanted? The ultimate fuck-up.

    48. Re:Distractions by war4peace · · Score: 1

      People suck my dick voluntarily.

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    49. Re:Distractions by Gr8Apes · · Score: 1

      I can't rule out the existence of God with 100% certainty, but I certainly can't believe an omniscient, omnipotent God somehow managed to create a world which was not what he wanted? The ultimate fuck-up.

      I can't rule out the existence of the FSM either, nor that we're in a computer simulation or our universe is merely a marble in a bag full of other marble universes for play by some juvenile double thumbed alien either.

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    50. Re: Distractions by Zontar+The+Mindless · · Score: 1

      Not that many housewives in the US these days.

      And on what basis do you characterise women as gold-diggers, anyhow?

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    51. Re:Distractions by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Poorer men could use the help, too. I know multiple people with degrees, poor work options, and student debt. No way do I want to fall into that trap. I'd get an EE or CS if I could get a free ride by proving my worth.

    52. Re:Distractions by Maxo-Texas · · Score: 1

      I agree. And not just men.

      I'd prefer to help people to various amounts who were in the lower income quintiles.

      Helping people in the bottom 4 quintiles is highly inflationary but helping people in the bottom 2 quintiles is not nearly as inflationary and helps promote a meritocracy over a hereditary oligarchy.

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  3. To summarize many of the jokes here by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    "You are a GREAT lover." - Russian woman, picking herself up off the bedroom floor

    "Thanks. I practice by myself a lot". -- Woody Allen

  4. this VR thing by turkeydance · · Score: 1

    gets in the way

  5. Americans Are Having Less Sex... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...because people are evolving from homo sapiens into shpherical sapiens.

  6. One really simple, obvious cause: by Narcocide · · Score: 2

    "Syfy" started making "Sci-Fi" again. And yes, some of it is even good. You're welcome. :-)

  7. Wrong, we've been getting much more by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
    We've been increasingly fucked by the government for the last twenty years. Fucked at an exponential rate.

    They promised us flying cars. They promised us cybersex. Instead we got droit du seigneur exercised continuously.

    1. Re:Wrong, we've been getting much more by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      We've been increasingly fucked by the government for the last twenty years. Fucked at an exponential rate.

      They promised us flying cars. They promised us cybersex. Instead we got droit du seigneur exercised continuously.

      20 years?

      Assholes are still believing in the myth of tinkle down economics.

  8. Numbers are skewed by PopeRatzo · · Score: 4, Funny

    Do these figures include jacking it to Hentai?

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    1. Re:Numbers are skewed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      What's your thing against Japan, man?

    2. Re:Numbers are skewed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The Japanese dudes are all fucked up relation-wise. We've had stories on here about it. Why can't you beat your dick to normal hardcore gangbangs like the rest of us instead of tentacle cartoons?

    3. Re:Numbers are skewed by PopeRatzo · · Score: 2

      The Japanese dudes are all fucked up relation-wise. We've had stories on here about it. Why can't you beat your dick to normal hardcore gangbangs like the rest of us instead of tentacle cartoons?

      American men prefer the cartoons of Peter getting cucked by Lois and Cleveland.

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    4. Re: Numbers are skewed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Cuck fetish is definitely a left-wing favorite.

    5. Re:Numbers are skewed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Do these figures include jacking it to Hentai?

      Only if it's futa.

    6. Re:Numbers are skewed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The whole tentacle thing is the result of laws that forbid pictures of actual penises. Tentacles aren't actual penises.

    7. Re:Numbers are skewed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Only if it's pregnant catgirl futa.

      FTFY.

    8. Re: Numbers are skewed by Megol · · Score: 1

      Actually more of a extreme right thing. Source: people that talk about "cucks" often.

  9. Ummm by Patent+Lover · · Score: 1

    'an increase in singletons over that period -- who tend to have less sex than married or partnered peoples" Really?

  10. Correllation by MikeB0Lton · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Perhaps a correlation with the rising obesity rate?

  11. zero sum by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Well, personally I'm having more so that means you guys are having even less. Sorry to pull down the grade curve for you.

    1. Re:zero sum by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You are overestimating the impact of going from never to "once a month, if I can afford 3 minutes with a crack whore".

    2. Re: zero sum by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Rape is free

  12. Worse by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    You forgot US Title 9, intimidation and threats of being accused a "rapist" for trivial acts such as cat calling or kissing a girl on the cheek without "positive confirmation", a massive public movement for body positivity, a massive public push for gay/lesbian/trans normalcy, and an overall lack of social integration due to "social media".

    Must post AC because shills and SJWs hate honesty, facts, and truth.

    1. Re:Worse by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      SJWs bang more than anyone so your argument is flawed, AC.

    2. Re:Worse by naubol · · Score: 2

      Nice conjecture. I somehow doubt that gay people are bringing the average down. Wasn't the original complaint that we were having too much sex (like over 500 partners a year)?

      You can call it truth if you want. It sounds more like a hypothesis that you want to believe is true.

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    3. Re: Worse by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I'm sure the ladies are really into your dirty beard and man purse. Oooooh... sexy.
      Do you at least by your cousin a latte when you're done?

    4. Re:Worse by dugancent · · Score: 0, Troll

      SJWs are the new boogeyman.

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    5. Re:Worse by Hylandr · · Score: 3, Insightful

      They are a destructive force that will call your employers, their bosses and shame the company into firing you whether or not you were actually guilty. Many of these degenerates just get off on ruining peoples lives just for ruining lives.

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    6. Re:Worse by Trogre · · Score: 3

      Listen, and understand. SJWs are out there. They canâ(TM)t be bargained with. They canâ(TM)t be reasoned with. They don't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And they absolutely WILL NOT stop. Ever. Until your career is dead.

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    7. Re: Worse by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Thank you, I was about to make the same point.

    8. Re:Worse by iNaya · · Score: 3, Insightful

      In regards to your sig, "Ad-Hominem attacks are the liberals concession of defeat. The more names they call you, the greater your victory"

      Is unfair to actual liberals. Do a quick look up of "liberal" in the dictionary. The regressive left are anything BUT liberal. They are in fact bigots, who, ironically, call anyone that disagrees with them a bigot.

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    9. Re: Worse by Zero__Kelvin · · Score: 3, Funny

      Oh ... It seems you were assuming there was a woman involved? :-)

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    10. Re:Worse by Hylandr · · Score: 1

      I truly stand corrected. I will fix this tomorrow.

      Thanks!

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    11. Re:Worse by AmiMoJo · · Score: 1

      They are in fact bigots

      If we are being technical, your dislike of the "regressive left" is bigotry.

      But a more practical definition is hatred of some group for reasons beyond their control, such as race or gender. In that case, neither you nor the "regressive left" are bigots, you just have philosophical and political disagreements.

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    12. Re:Worse by Falconhell · · Score: 3, Insightful

      I blame gay marriage, its well known marriage results in less sex!
      Thats the reason I Never could work out why the religious right were so against it!

    13. Re:Worse by pak9rabid · · Score: 1

      I've witnessed this first-hand on Facebook. Some guy says something (admittedly stupid) about Obama, then an army of liberals come out of the woodwork to cyber-bully the guy, even going so far as doxxing him and contacting his place of employment to let them know about it in an attempt to get him fired. Fucking disgusting.

    14. Re:Worse by DogDude · · Score: 1

      If you've got people calling your employer about something you did, you might want to take a step back and consider what you did. That's not something that happens to most people.

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    15. Re:Worse by greythax · · Score: 1

      So we are all just going to pretend that the sig isn't an Argumentum Ad Hominem by even including a political label? "A liberal insulted me, so all liberals use insults." You would have gotten a very ironic F from my philosophy teacher for that one.

    16. Re:Worse by greythax · · Score: 2

      Also, I just realized this whole conversation is the reason I have been having less sex lately.

    17. Re:Worse by werepants · · Score: 1

      Hylandr doesn't actually understand his own sig, which quickly becomes apparent the moment you argue with him and he immediately resorts to ad-hominem. It's pretty entertaining.

    18. Re:Worse by Hylandr · · Score: 1

      You don't get it.

      All you have to do is *disagree* with these people to become a target. I deleted my fecebook account two years ago because there are entire groups dedicated to just destroying peoples lives.

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    19. Re:Worse by Hylandr · · Score: 1

      Nice stretch, but, no.

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    20. Re:Worse by iNaya · · Score: 1

      Hatred of a group isn't bigotry - that's called hatred. Hating people of another race (including white people!) is called racism, not bigotry.

      A more practical definition of bigotry is someone who will not tolerate others who have a different opinion. E.g. "You think women already have equal rights??? What!! You are a misogynist!". That statement is the statement of a bigot. An unbigoted statement would be "No, you're utterly wrong - actually they lack the right to [bla bla]".

      For the record, I am a left leaning liberal who thinks everyone should have a good education for free, or reasonable fee, and free healthcare, and that everyone has the right to be fed, clothed, and sheltered. But I don't go around demonising those that disagree with me. It is those people, that go around demonising others, that I call bigots. And I am correct in my assertion.

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    21. Re:Worse by iNaya · · Score: 1

      Hmm. Here's a correction that's prevents the irony in your statement:

      "Ad-Hominem attacks are a concession of defeat. The more names they call you, the greater your victory"

      Although I would argue that calling someone a name is not a concession of defeat. It is more the demonstration of an inability to make a reasoned argument and/or to contain ones emotions, or a clever way to demonise someone based on the target audience. Arrghgh - I guess it's quite hard to generalise what an ad-hominem attack says about someone.

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    22. Re:Worse by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      > So we are all just going to pretend that the sig isn't an Argumentum Ad Hominem by even including a political label?

      It's not ad hominem. It's hasty generalization.

  13. Porn by Dan+East · · Score: 2

    Men tend to initiate sex much more than women do. Men also tend to watch porn much more than women do. So I have a hunch the ease of access to porn has resulted in men getting their gratification alone while watching porn, thus less sex is taking place. Additionally the normal, average woman does not compare to your typical porn star, which may also result in men developing unrealistic standards and thus not having sex with their partner as much due to higher expectations.

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    1. Re:Porn by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

      No, that's silly. The frequency of sex has to do with both people (and their respective schedules), and whether they actually communicate their needs to each other. When I watch porn it just makes me want to fuck the living crap out of my wife all the more.. that being said, I have to pay attention carefully to the signals, and do some things I normally don't really think about or feel like doing. As an added bonus, she's finally found her g-spot, and does this crazy thing with her hips, well.. whoosh!

      Also, "the average woman does not compare..."; in what way? Doesn't she have a brain, and all the other naughty bits? I've been with stunning girls who were like cold limp beef in bed, and grey-skinned Turkish pig-women who were completely fucking hot. It's all in your minds, my friends.. Average is far far better than none.

      It's like the weather: When it's crappy out, I remind myself that it's better than no weather at all.

    2. Re: Porn by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Too many women nowadays fall short of "average" standards, even, and rather than try to do something about it, they go "healthy at every size" (fuckin bullshit too).

    3. Re:Porn by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You had me until 'Grey-skinned Turkish pig-women'...

      I don't even know what to say.

    4. Re:Porn by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      oink?

    5. Re:Porn by Freischutz · · Score: 1

      Men tend to initiate sex much more than women do. Men also tend to watch porn much more than women do. So I have a hunch the ease of access to porn has resulted in men getting their gratification alone while watching porn, thus less sex is taking place. Additionally the normal, average woman does not compare to your typical porn star, which may also result in men developing unrealistic standards and thus not having sex with their partner as much due to higher expectations.

      Blaming it all on men is a bit unfair. Women also have unrealistic expectations. The regular average man also compares poorly to movie actors, pop stars and professional athletes which may be another contributing factor. People these days have a very unrealistic expectation of what their ideal partner should look like, what they themselves look like, and people generally seem to spend so much time fussing over what what the person they are currently dating looks like that they forget to think about what kind of a person they are. I was told a long time ago by an old coot who had been married to the same woman for over twice as long as I had been alive at that time (c.a. 17-18 years) that it is more important what your partner makes you feel than what they look like and there is some truth to that. Now, I'm not saying you should completely disregard what your perspective partner looks like but you might want to decrease the importance of looks in favour of other traits if you are looking for a stable long term relationship. Of course if you are a promiscuous libertine (nothing wrong with that as long as you break no laws) whose greatest goal in life is adding notches to his/her belt then other rules apply.

    6. Re: Porn by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Too many women nowadays fall short of "average" standards, even, and rather than try to do something about it, they go "healthy at every size" (fuckin bullshit too).

      So, do you yourelf live up to "average" standards? Or are you just one of those opinionated below average looking keyboard punching office drones for whom nothing less than a Parisian runway model will do, but who has grown bitter by years of rejection by women who do not even live up to your definition of 'average' standards?

    7. Re:Porn by xession · · Score: 1

      Additionally the normal, average woman does not compare to your typical porn star, which may also result in men developing unrealistic standards and thus not having sex with their partner as much due to higher expectations.

      So by you claim, people, or more specifically men, willingly choose to not have sex because their partner or possibly other people because they can't find a porn actress level sexual partner?

      I'm sorry but that just an incredibly ridiculous claim. The neckbearded browsers of /r/redpill are likely in this group no doubt but they are a very small minority of men thankfully. If people are no longer having sex with their partner due to a loss of sexual attraction, there is a very strong likelihood that much more is going on than just a stronger affinity to other more attractive potential partners. In that case, it would be far too simplistic to make the claim that a person is no longer sexually satisfied by their partners lacking appearance and ability in personifying a porn actress.

    8. Re: Porn by h4ck7h3p14n37 · · Score: 1

      Have Americans Given Up on Losing Weight?

      One in every three people in the United States is now obese, compared with one in five 20 years ago, researchers report.

      All racial/ethnic groups across both genders reported decreased interest in weight loss, but women in particular were more likely to say they'd given up on it, the findings showed.

  14. How is this in any way by thinkwaitfast · · Score: 1

    news for nerd?

    1. Re:How is this in any way by naubol · · Score: 1

      stuff that matters

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    2. Re: How is this in any way by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It isn't. It's clickbait. Slashdot must be falling on hard times.

    3. Re:How is this in any way by thinkwaitfast · · Score: 2

      This does not matter. A week from now your life will be no different. You will not change any of your behaviors for this. This is infotainment.

    4. Re:How is this in any way by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      "science.slashdot.org"

      for science... I'll get the coat.

    5. Re:How is this in any way by Greyfox · · Score: 1

      Americans still having way more sex than nerd.

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    6. Re:How is this in any way by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Well, sex IS news for nerds!

      So there... ;-)

  15. [OT] F-22 vs. fleet of F-15s by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Here's a video of a simulated dogfight posted on Business Insider (via Yahoo); it's actually something like 14 years old, but still pretty cool:

    http://www.businessinsider.com/watch-one-f-22-five-f-15s-2017-3

  16. No kidding by kybred · · Score: 0

    I'm definitely having less sex than I did 20 years ago!

    1. Re:No kidding by Major+Blud · · Score: 4, Funny

      I'm definitely having less sex than I did 20 years ago!

      Please tell me you're not 23.

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  17. apparently by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I'm not really an American. My wife and I are having more of the best sex we've ever had in 30 years. Bwah..

  18. Re:No Surprise by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I believe you have that backwards. One of my fundie friends was heading off to a Vegas bachelor party and his wife said, as he left for the airport, "remember, you're a Christian."

    I'm not entirely sure what the meant. I inferred it meant he could go fuck anything that moved and when he came back he's be forgiven.

    Elsewhere in rural America there's the epidemic of unwed mothers, because women will trade sex for crystal meth; the drug dealers get all the nookie they can can handle for the price of a couple grams.

  19. It's money by rsilvergun · · Score: 5, Insightful

    folks are making about 20% less than their parents did so it's not surprising. You need money to date. Plus being stressed about money all the time puts a damper on things.

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    1. Re:It's money by angel'o'sphere · · Score: 1

      So, you need money to date your own GF or to have sex with her?
      Oh, your dating culture must be quite strange.

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    2. Re:It's money by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Clearly and obviously.

    3. Re:It's money by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I believe rsilvergun is referring to human sex. Not your left hand or your body pillow. Humans cost money to take on a date.

    4. Re:It's money by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      That's probably true. Around here all the single women are gold diggers. Being smart, funny, kind, good with animals and children, treat them well and be willing to actually have a relationship isn't enough. You've also got to be a well-hung millionaire with a 6 pack.

    5. Re:It's money by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I do, my gf charges by the hour.

    6. Re:It's money by baadfood · · Score: 1

      Ok. Some empirical science.
      Suggest to your GF that, this weekend, you stay home, go no where, and have sex.

    7. Re:It's money by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Yes you do. You don't think her panties will drop for less than the cost of a drink at least do you? Women have evolved a need to see that you can provide for them and their offspring before they are willing to give you mating opportunities. Unless you are exceptionally good looking, but even then you need nice clothes, good hair etc. All that personal care stuff ain't free and girls do notice it.

      So if you happen to be some kind of beta who thinks he can have no money AND a GF, keep in mind it's only until someone with money, looks or both comes along and shows her what it's like to be with a real man.

      Women do not become faithful until the point at which they realize their attractiveness to males has dropped off a cliff and they are running a serious risk of being alone forever in their old age with no one to take care of them.

      Some women have found a way around this and congratulations to them. The rise of the cougars/cubs in a certain set of women who woke up one day and realized they had made themselves wealthy somehow and could attract a young man who will sleep with them despite the chances of birth defects that increase almost exponentially the closer a woman gets to menopause.

      This is also why it's extremely common for a man in his 40s+ to date a woman, in her late teens to early 20s especially after a divorce. It's hard for a boy in his early 20s to compete with a man who's already solved the long term living stability and money situation. It's only the institution of monogamous marriage that allows there to even be such a thing as a single girl in her 20s.

    8. Re:It's money by jandersen · · Score: 1

      You're talking about what we diplomatically call 'negotiable affection', here? There are other ways as well, you know. I'm not sure lack of money is the reason people have less sex; people often huddle together in times of stress, and sometimes they do more than huddle, since sex is an effective way to release stress, so I would expect there to be more sex. If you are in a relationship, sex is one of the more enjoyable things you can do, which don't cost money. My suspicion is that it has more to do with obesity, which not only hurts your self-esteem, but also affects your physical health, and thereby your libido as well as your ability to perform.

    9. Re:It's money by religionofpeas · · Score: 1

      Has always worked for me...

    10. Re:It's money by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      That statistic can't possibly be true, can it?

      offtopic: nice name, Radiant Silvergun is a breathtaking game!

    11. Re:It's money by angel'o'sphere · · Score: 1

      Answer to the wrong parent?

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    12. Re:It's money by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      "I'm not sure lack of money is the reason people have less sex;"

      It is, relationship stability goes down with low and unstable income. No one wants to hook up with someone in a dead end up. Sorry to say it, women will cheat and jump around if they think they can trade up.

    13. Re:It's money by MorePower · · Score: 1

      Um, how do you get a GF to have sex with? Generally you start by going out on dates with women.
      That is kind of the whole point of dating.

    14. Re:It's money by bluefoxlucid · · Score: 1

      Food is cheaper, houses are bigger, cars come packed with more tech, I have a supercomputer in my pocket, instant communications with everyone and everything are available 24/7 in my pocket, and I've got more access to medical care and entertainment--and spend more of my budget on these things.

      Americans at all income levels--especially the poorer and middle-class--have easier access to basic needs and spend more of their money on entertainment and on previously-inadequately-fulfilled needs (e.g. buying more healthcare because they have the cash flow available) than they did 10, 20, and 50 years ago.

      How is that "less"?

    15. Re:It's money by meta-monkey · · Score: 1

      Oh, your dating culture must be quite strange.

      Ah, welcome visitor from an alien world! On Earth, human females are enticed to engage in sexual activity primarily with men of high social status. This social status is frequently advertised with an outlay of "cash money." How do mating rituals work on your planet?

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    16. Re:It's money by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      plus if you spend 20 years from 16 to 36 in school, that's pretty much the entire window in which our ancestors would have gotten married

    17. Re:It's money by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      So your GF only wants sex after being taken out somewhere? That sounds really unusual.
      Or is this all hypothetical for you?

    18. Re:It's money by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      They have to pay for a place to have sex for one. Its the generation of everyone has an iPhone but nobody can afford an apartment. 4 roommates in a house that their parents would have been able to afford on one income.

    19. Re:It's money by angel'o'sphere · · Score: 1

      We just get a girl friend :D
      I never "dated" a woman in my whole life ...

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    20. Re:It's money by angel'o'sphere · · Score: 1

      I thought the whole point of dating is to go out with rather random girls, pay their bills, and have sex with said random girls. But perhaps I understood american culture wrong :D

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    21. Re:It's money by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I have had no partners besides my wife, we are weirdos that waited, but I have done this. "Babe lets just hide out this weekend and make love a lot" is something I expect many women would actually be into. They just won't want that to be every weekend.

    22. Re:It's money by MorePower · · Score: 1

      Please elaborate! Here on Earth, getting a girlfriend involves first dating women. Earth women generally won't directly become girlfriends with strangers. And they absolutely will not become romantically involved with anyone they have a previous non-romatic relationship with (friends, co-workers, whatever).

    23. Re:It's money by MorePower · · Score: 1

      Well, that is the other option for dating. In the process of trying to have sex with random girls sometimes you discover that you really like one of them and she really likes you and that's how one generally obtains a GF.

    24. Re:It's money by angel'o'sphere · · Score: 1

      really likes you and that's how one generally obtains a GF.
      And for that you don't need to 'date'.

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    25. Re:It's money by angel'o'sphere · · Score: 1

      ... getting a girlfriend involves first dating women. ...
      No, that is mainly an american thing.

      If some romance is in the air, I invite my desired future GF to dinner at my house. Or she invites me to her house. The idea that I have to have half a dozen 'dates' and on top of that 'pay for them' is an american thing.

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    26. Re:It's money by MorePower · · Score: 1

      Ah, I would still call that a dating. Dating doesn't strictly require going out. That's just the normal mode, since it's a bit less intimidating for women than going to a stranger's house or inviting a stranger into her house.

    27. Re:It's money by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      No, that's pretty much the stereotype. Thankfully, 20 and 30-somethings are learning how to go Dutch. It's great.

  20. Who needs it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    The reality never lives up to the fantasy. At my age, sex has become a combination chore/duty/performance evaluation.

    Yes, I'm doing it wrong. My complaint is there's no way to "do it right" anymore. :-P

  21. Less married couples by LeftCoastThinker · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The dirty little secret that Hollywood movies never told you is that married people have way more sex than singles. This drop in sexy times correlates to the drop in married couples in general (as the article cites). If you want to get it regular, put a ring on it and work to have a good relationship with your spouse.

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    1. Re: Less married couples by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Actually, the most common reason for divorce is sex.

    2. Re: Less married couples by skids · · Score: 2

      Well, he didn't say the "more sex" married people have was with each other, to be fair.

    3. Re:Less married couples by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I thought married couples only had sex once a week on average? In college I was banging my girlfriend like 3 times a day.

    4. Re:Less married couples by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Between you and her other two boyfriends, it's amazing her guts didn't just fall out.

    5. Re:Less married couples by dougTheRug · · Score: 1

      Once a month, here. Sometimes we skip a month.

  22. Close.. by thesupraman · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Too much Fa(r)cebook.

    Seriously, the number of people who spend all their relaxation time buried in that pile of steaming shite
    and ignoring their partner is just astounding, no wonder no intimacy happens....

    Especially, I have to say it sorry, women. Many seem to spend much of their lives following all the other
    women they know, and thinking that everyone else lives a better life than them (while also themselves
    only posting the highlights of their own lives there, as glamorized as possible..).

    Ignoring the usual 'no one on slashdot actually has physical relations' jokes, that really is the problem,
    people are just becoming emotionally detached through not enough face to face time, so is anyone
    actually surprised they are having less sex?

    Trying to explain it to someone caught up in that BS though is like pulling the pin on a hand grenade, then
    deciding its juggling time.. They will violently claim they dont spend 'that much' time on there, and that
    anyway its only to keep in touch with their friends, and that it has no impact on their happiness or relationship.

    That much denial is a scary thing...

    1. Re:Close.. by locater16 · · Score: 2

      Says the guy busy burying his nose in /. comments. But who needs women anyway? Seriously, though, internet is getting better than sex. 20 years till the VRpocalypse where everything virtual is better than you stupid "normies" can imagine. When you're riding through space on a dragon who cares about "children" and shit?

    2. Re:Close.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      HAIL YEAH! Riding on a mother f**king dragon!

    3. Re:Close.. by SacredNaCl · · Score: 5, Interesting

      Too much Fa(r)cebook.
      Seriously, the number of people who spend all their relaxation time buried in that pile of steaming shite and ignoring their partner is just astounding, no wonder no intimacy happens.... Especially, I have to say it sorry, women.

      Its a little more than that, but that is certainly a part of it. I blame the smart phone. I thought I had a great marriage right up until my wife got an Iphone. Now admittedly I do spend a little too much time with computers and music gear. So I wasn't that worried about it when my wife first got her Iphone, but 6 months later I was genuinely lonely, felt ignored, felt like I could not a have a decent conversation with her, and its been a battle since. I try to have a conversation with her, she has to check this thing and wont give the courtesy of putting it away for all of it. I try to go places and do things with it -- we could be at an incredibly fancy restaurant sans kids and still has to whip this one (and yes, it might be limited to a brief snap of this to post about it, but its often not), I have sex with her and 30 seconds later that blue light is on. I can't even watch a movie with her without her checking it.

      I even took the step of introducing a high voltage static discharge into her prior one. She simply bought another within hours. She is not a morning person, so to see her sprint up even before I did to rush out to the Apple store was disheartening. Coming up upon a decade and I decided to file for divorce now rather than risk my retirement to it.

      Some people may have a less intense reaction to it than I do. It depends upon what speaks to you about being loved and feeling loved. For me its no different than choosing crack cocaine over your partner. 16 years together, the last 10 of them married.

      --
      Freedom is merely privilege extended unless enjoyed by one and all.
    4. Re:Close.. by thegarbz · · Score: 1

      Too much Fa(r)cebook.

      I think you'll find pornhub and xhamster, et al. get far more traffic than facebook.

    5. Re: Close.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

      I feel ya.

      My first marriage also died a horrible death under a blue glow. Not a word at the restaurant table for texting under the table. Even better I found she was hooking up with old flames.

      (I'm not against that but don't don the life jacket before the soup arrives, and let the other passengers know please)

      I guess I should have read that from the mass panic of "zomgz I need to get a phone before we fly out". I've really never seen so much panic at the hands of potentially not having a web connection. She even carried two phones in case one of them failed. She even rushed us out of the restaurant because she needed to get back to the hotel to get on Facebook properly.

      There are shitty people. There are shitty people with no manners. You can be at the butt end of a decade of delusion and dishonesty and never really figure out where it went awry. It all seems so frivolous now but I'm still getting calls 8 years later from debt collectors chasing her, and I'm still not convinced she didn't rip off the bank before we moved to America. I guess I'll never know the truth behind that now.

      Facebook was only a facet of the problem but it was definitely the most maddening.

    6. Re:Close.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Obviously this is the time for everyone to post their half-baked theories - but I think that this is really the problem. Its twofold - women more on the facebook, men more on the porn - but represents itself as "people are paying a LOT more attention to their devices than they are to each other". I very *rarely* go 4 days without an orgasm nowadays. She *never* goes a day without Facebook. We took a "no phones" vacation a while ago and sex went WAY up (even when using other vacations as a control) - from ~1.2/week to 2x/day.

      Its hard to say if it is as malicious as "testosterone depletion", socially draining as "decline in connectedness", or as simple as "lack of boredom". My sample is biased, but I dated a girl with no TV/internet (in 2005), and we fucked A LOT (2-3x/day, typically).

    7. Re:Close.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Says the guy busy burying his nose in /. comments.

      But we're avoiding work, not sex!

    8. Re:Close.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I have sex with her and 30 seconds later that blue light is on

      Maybe you should try something kinkier, like dressing up like a Facebook feed in bed.

    9. Re: Close.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Population decline imminent

  23. What it usually means by hackwrench · · Score: 1

    Because you are a Christian, you need to be ultra careful in that den of sinners to make sure you don't think any sinful thoughts.

  24. You're welcome by mnemotronic · · Score: 4, Funny

    Bringing down the average for everyone in our time zone. My wife's motto is "once every five years, whether we need it or not". Thank god for reddit gonewild. Oops. Can I edit that comment??

    --
    The Russians have won. They have made the world a cesspool of distrust, greed, fear and hate.
    1. Re:You're welcome by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      That's not what your wife told *me* last night.

    2. Re:You're welcome by Moonrazor · · Score: 1

      Once every five years? Luxury.

      --
      Burn the land and boil the sea........
    3. Re:You're welcome by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      "My wife and I are trying to have a baby. Well, she tries--I just lie there."
        - Bob Saget

  25. Have you seen what Americans look like nowdays? by Snotnose · · Score: 1

    Stolen from a Fark headline that should be a HOTY finalist.

  26. A hope by grasshoppa · · Score: 1, Interesting

    A part of me hopes that men in the US, much like those in Japan, are waking up to the terror that is false rape allegations, divorce and family law. Being aware of what *could* happen is like taking 100 ice cold showers while watching an old Richard Simmons workout tape.

    Men; you have guilty. If it's your word against hers, I hope you can comfortably reach your ankle.

    --
    Mod me down with all of your hatred and your journey towards the dark side will be complete!
    1. Re:A hope by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      much like those in Japan, are waking up to the terror that is false rape allegations, divorce and family law.

      The men in Japan aren't having sex/relationships because of those reasons. They aren't having sex because they don't have girlfriends, and they don't have girlfriends because of a combination of working hours and poor salary. Rape allegations would more likely be laughed off in Japan.

    2. Re:A hope by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Call it once a week that should be mutually enjoyable.
      Given, due to Community property and the like - Marriage is a Financial risk
      We can do some sums about cost of living, price per whoopee . Truthfully, some will be low quality, some better.
      It figures that single rates are up, and American productivity down (too much farcebook).
      Something needs to change to reverse this trend. Time poor?
      Note in some countries pre-nups are voided. Love honor and obey my As*.

    3. Re: A hope by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      This. Coupled with the fact that its impossible to find a woman without at least one child these days. Try telling a single mother that you don't want to literally pay for her mistakes. It can be quite entertaining.

  27. As someone 47 years old... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    that worked for Microsoft since 1992 so I have stunningly large stock options, women aren't interested in stability or money. They're only interested in criminals that don't have jobs that can pay attention to them and give them time.

    1. Re: As someone 47 years old... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      This. They only want poor criminals.

    2. Re: As someone 47 years old... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Men without jobs can give them more attention.

    3. Re: As someone 47 years old... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I can only get dates when I lie and claim to be a felon.

    4. Re: As someone 47 years old... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      We don't accept rape like we used to. Of course you people are having no sex.

    5. Re: As someone 47 years old... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I have never agreed to even kiss one of your kind. Women aren't agreeing to be raped like we used to.

    6. Re: As someone 47 years old... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I don't know any girls that have ever been on a date. Living in Seattle where girls know their worth sucks.

    7. Re: As someone 47 years old... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      We don't like your kind.

    8. Re: As someone 47 years old... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Women hate men with good jobs. We just Aren't interest.

    9. Re: As someone 47 years old... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      No thinking woman has ever agreed to do that with a man. Any that did committed rape.

    10. Re: As someone 47 years old... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Seattle isn't a dating city. Most girls here never agree to become breeders.

    11. Re: As someone 47 years old... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Women haven't needed men in over thirty years.

    12. Re: As someone 47 years old... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      We don't like men with jobs and without criminal records. You're boring.

    13. Re: As someone 47 years old... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      True, but that's too harsh. We should never say that to a man or they might rape us.

    14. Re:As someone 47 years old... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You're so bad you can't even be a beta bux.

    15. Re: As someone 47 years old... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      As one study proved, Seattle is the most asexual city in the world.

    16. Re: As someone 47 years old... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      This. They can't give us the time.

    17. Re:As someone 47 years old... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      If you have a steady well paying job and can't interest any women, then there are two possibilities:

      1) You are only looking at very pretty women, who are out of your league in terms of attractiveness. If you really want sex, don't be so picky, and show interest in women of average or even below-average attractiveness.

      2) You have some personality problem which prevents you getting along with women. See a therapist to work on this.

  28. Millenials by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    With all he man-buns and man-purses, they may be having a hard time figuring it out.

  29. I have a hypothesis... by hyades1 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Americans Are Having Less Sex Than 20 Years Ago, Study Finds

    Hardly anybody wants to screw a fatty.

    --
    I've calculated my velocity with such exquisite precision that I have no idea where I am.
    1. Re: I have a hypothesis... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      This. The average American woman nowadays is a seriously hefty 165 pounds. No thanks! Get down to like 115-120 then we'll talk.

    2. Re: I have a hypothesis... by religionofpeas · · Score: 1

      And the average American man isn't doing much better.

    3. Re: I have a hypothesis... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      This. The average American woman nowadays is a seriously hefty 165 pounds. No thanks! Get down to like 115-120 then we'll talk.

      And the average American man isn't doing much better.

      Yup, few things are more hypocritical than fat guys putting down fat girls for being fat (or vice versa). This guy has to be the only one I have ever come across who sits at a bar and says to his friend: "Look at that one, she has to be 130 pounds at least, YUK, YUK, BARF, BARF!!!! Most guys are completely uninterested in how much a woman weighs. I have never seen a bunch of guys sitting somewhere and discussing how much they think passing women weigh. Most guys care about a woman's over all figure, which is mostly a factor of 'curvyness' for lack of a better word not body weight. A woman who has a hourglass figure will get more attention than one who has no waist, just like a guy who works out and has a chest that is wider than his waist will get more attention than one who is pear shaped and potbellied. After that it's mostly about whether she blows you off or not and if she does not blow you off it boils down to whether you get along with her or not. I think women in general would be surprised at how many guys actually prefer women who are a bit full figured over the ones who are trying their best to be skinnier than a famine victim. Its' women who are more likely to be uncompromising in their search for an Adonis with a perfect body who does not care about his dream woman's looks.

  30. Fluoride by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Have you ever heard of a thing called fluoridation. Fluoridation of water?

  31. Longer hours by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    The number of hours worked has been increasing, expenses have been increasing, but wage growth has not been keeping up.
    People are too tired and can't afford more children.

  32. No wonder ... by angel'o'sphere · · Score: 1

    ... that dating sites are full with sex hungry people. (Who are often pretty strange in human interaction)

    --
    Cost free eBook I read (by iBook/Kobo/Amazon/ObookO/Gutenberg etc.): "The Green Odyssey" by Philip Jose Farmer.
  33. The reason by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Everyone's too afraid to have sex because it's clearly sexist, racist, and antisemitic to do so.

  34. Not a popular suggestion, but by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    The rise of SJW's and gender swapping and "non-binary", very confused people who insist that anyone who doesn't share their confusion is hateful and to be loathed as anti-god-only-knows-what-this-week.

    Been there, done that, had serious trouble with my own wife because "if there's no difference between men and women, why do transgender people bother?" That argument, alone, accounts for why *I* had so much sex last year.

    1. Re:Not a popular suggestion, but by david_thornley · · Score: 1

      None of the non-binaries I've run into insist that I should be confused. I just treat them like everybody else whose sex life is none of my business, and things are fine.

      There are very few people in the world whose sex, gender, or sexual orientation actually affect me directly, and the same is likely true of you. The sooner you realize that, the happier you'll be.

      --
      "When you have eliminated the unacceptable, whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truthiness" - Holmes
    2. Re:Not a popular suggestion, but by Megol · · Score: 1

      I think the confusion is on your side. But the solution is easy: you don't have to try to understand it, just don't spend any of your (assumed precious) time thinking about it, ranting about it etc. It's none of your business anyway.

  35. If you have to wait... by kyubre · · Score: 1

    If you're in your 30s and still have to wait for your mom to leave the house before inviting that special someone over, you're probably not getting much!

    --
    Nothing evolves faster than the word of god in the minds of men who think themselves divinely inspired.
  36. Example from Higher Education by Kunedog · · Score: 3, Insightful

    the girl herslef said they are false, the accusations were made by a third-side feminist who thought she knew better than both of them

    Just so folks can see a concrete, verifiable example of this kind of thing . . .

    Two adult students have consensual sex; third parties decide otherwise, including the university. The male student is suspended before they even do him the courtesy of a show trial, ruining his education, athletic career, and (potential) medical career.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    This is how the "rape culture" myth does irreparable harm, with college students getting the worst of it through abuse of Title IX.

    1. Re:Example from Higher Education by Hylandr · · Score: 2, Informative

      I have an Ex-Wife that would cheat, and then claim it was rape if she was caught. I have had a few friends put in jail that way.

      She'd call me up bragging about it. Then call me how scared she was the guy's wife found out, claim it was rape in front of her. Ruin the relationship, get him put in jail and they'd become 'best buds'.

      No joke.

      --
      ~ People that think they are better than anyone else for any reason are the cause of all the strife in the world.
    2. Re:Example from Higher Education by hey! · · Score: 1

      That's not the scenario the poster is positing. He's talking about women who treat him as a rapist because of the way he looks at them.

      --
      Post may contain irony: discontinue use if experiencing mood swings, nausea or elevated blood pressure.
    3. Re:Example from Higher Education by Megol · · Score: 3, Insightful

      And you did nothing? I think you are lying.

    4. Re:Example from Higher Education by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You mean like the video going around of the woman going apeshit because some guy said hello to her as she was driving by, and she just happened to be recording this whole exchange for some reason?

    5. Re:Example from Higher Education by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      And get accused of rape too? I move outside whatever country this monster lives in, change my name and have cosmetic surgery. Hannibal Lecter with less of an apetite.

    6. Re:Example from Higher Education by Hylandr · · Score: 1

      I lived in another state then, and this was the reason I began recording phone conversations, when we are forced to converse.

      Legal in both jurisdictions as long as I have consent of at least 50% of the call participants.

      --
      ~ People that think they are better than anyone else for any reason are the cause of all the strife in the world.
    7. Re:Example from Higher Education by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      *Sigh* Remember when the only consequences of sex were pregnancy, STDs, and getting a reputation?

    8. Re:Example from Higher Education by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      There is no "rape culture" any more than there's a "murder culture" or "car thief" culture.

      What we do have is books, magazines, and educational institutions bombarding women with propaganda that puts them in constant fear of being raped. It's unfair to both men and women.

  37. I'm having TONS more sex by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    With myself!

  38. Humping gap by Tablizer · · Score: 1

    We need more focus on our stem rather than STEM.

  39. 62 vs 53 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    62 times a year is one fuck every 6 days.
    53 times a year is one fuck every 7 days.

    Quibbling over whether you only fuck every 6 or 7 days is like quibbling over whether your IQ is 62 or 53... Either way your still a "fucking" idiot.

  40. Anti-depressants by GrBear · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I wouldn't be surprised if it's due to the over prescribing of anti-depressants. SSRI's are notorious for killing off your sex drive, and doctors prescribe them for everything under the sun.

    1. Re:Anti-depressants by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      As a medical provider, I endorse this. I prescribe SSRIs all the time, but I specifically disclose the side effects--loss of libido, anorgasmia--when I'm prescribing them for the first time. In general, I would say that, at the one month mark...
      - 25% of patients don't note any significant sexual effects from SSRIs
      - 25% of patients do note sexual side effects, but not bad enough to stop the SSRI.
      - 25% of patients note unacceptable sexual side effects and stop the SSRI because of it.
      - 25% of patients notice the side effects, but aren't in a relationship at the moment so don't care to stop the SSRIs because of them.

      There doesn't seem to be any particular age or gender bias in who goes where. I typically start with Sertraline unless a patient has a different preference ("My mom has been on Lexapro...").

    2. Re:Anti-depressants by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Oh thank god. I thought I was the only one who noticed this. Oddly enough I think that's what cures the depression - removing my sexual appetite for women that I can't get.

    3. Re:Anti-depressants by david_thornley · · Score: 1

      Underprescribing antidepressants isn't going to help either. Depression is really bad on the sex life. Has the number of people with serious depression gone up?

      --
      "When you have eliminated the unacceptable, whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truthiness" - Holmes
    4. Re:Anti-depressants by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I'm a 31 yr old male, went on citalopram first. I unlocked my ability to nap again, but couldn't fucking orgasm. It was the strangest sensation. It felt good, but nothing really happened. After about a month or two of that, we cross-weaned me to wellbutrin. I got irritable as fuck and almost teenager-y, but the sex came back. Ultimately the mood swings were too much, and I ended up on mirtazapine (sp?), which made me gain weight, but it takes the edge off the depression and anxiety.

      I'm sure you're aware of this, but any time I hear about someone I know getting into SSRIs, I always warn them that it can take time to find the right medication to treat their problem, since every brain's chemistry is a little different. Sometimes they're not needed at all, but for me personally it made the good days better and the shitty days bearable. After my CBT ended, I felt like sending my therapist a bouquet in appreciation, but decided it was a bit too personal and might mar the patient/professional relationship. Would that have been bad form?

  41. Sounds really low by Maxo-Texas · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I'm closing on 60 and still averaging over 150 a year (and about 9 hours a week). One may be related to the other-- sex may be of less value to average folks who take 3 to 15 minutes, half the women don't have an orgasm, etc.

    Biggest suggestion I can make is to have your setup where the man can stand-- I prefer a inexpensive massage table. The height is adjustable. If she wants to ride cowboy, you can still lay down on it. It's comfortable but not so soft that you are fighting a mattress that's absorbing all your energy.

    But for the guy- doing a 2 hour pushup is much harder than dancing for 2 hours.

    Next, I'd say to guys *always* make sure she has an orgasm. Your orgasm is actually the optional one if you want to have a lot of sex- not hers.
    And as you get older, look into tantric sex. But a little denial will actually make your interest stronger. And induces you to naturally be nice to her, complement her, etc.

    I see so many couples who kill their sex lives thru random rejection. That's just a really deadly trap. One asks the other for sex and is rejected. After a few iterations, they stop asking.

    To the women, I'd say- guys need to feel special and you gotta flatter them. That doesn't mean putting on lingerie and expecting them to get aroused. That works on 20 year olds but it fails against football and video games even for 28 year olds much less 30 year olds. Don't believe, "All I have to do is show up naked". No. You need to flirt. You need to touch. You need to express interest. Sure- he needs to do the same. But the male ego is a real thing. And even if he thinks he wants it- if his ego is torn up, the rocket isn't launching. Penetrative sex isn't the only show in town but it is the most important to many couples (and even women who feel validated that the male rose to the occasion).

    To both sides: Brush and floss your teeth. A mouth that smells like decay isn't sexy. I don't even think I've ever seen a rule of 34 for that. For other body odors and scents- you need to talk to your partner and find out what they like. Antiseptic is good for some, but a little humanity is good for others and some folks like it ripe.

    Anyway.. sounds like a really low rate. It's a wonderful human activity and can be a lot of fun.

    --
    She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.
    1. Re:Sounds really low by el_chupanegre · · Score: 1

      Averaging 150 times per year = ~3 times per week, so 9 hours per week = ~3 hours each time. That sounds more like an addiction instead of genuinely, fully enjoying that all the way through and just happening to take that amount of time. Very few people have 3 hours to spend 3 times a week after they've got home from their long day at work, got the kids fed, washed and asleep and tended to their own personal needs.

      I'd look towards blaming long work hours, lower average pay and fast ubiquitous access to the Internet for the decline rather than people just not doing it right.

    2. Re:Sounds really low by coinreturn · · Score: 2

      Me, too, but only recently. During the study period I was still married and probably had sex about 30-40 times a year. Now I'm happily divorced and my girlfriend wants it every night. Nice change. At my age, my orgasm IS optional and she usually gets a few each time. Role reversal from teenagehood.

    3. Re:Sounds really low by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I see so many couples who kill their sex lives thru random rejection.

      Like.. from the bushes with binoculars?

    4. Re:Sounds really low by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I see so many couples who kill their sex lives thru random rejection.

      Where do you see them? Are you outside in the bushes with binoculars?

    5. Re:Sounds really low by AmiMoJo · · Score: 1

      I'm closing on 60 and still averaging over 150 a year (and about 9 hours a week).

      A lot of people can't spare 3 hours just for sex once a week, let along three times. I certainly couldn't find 3 hours every other day, and to be frank if I could I wouldn't waste them having really long slow sex. Don't get me wrong, sex is fun and romantic and all that, but there are other rewarding things people can do together and I've got other interests to attend to.

      I think I'd get bored too. Trying to fill 9 hours a week with interesting bedroom stuff, year after year... And for many (most?) people with the same partner.

      It's like chocolate. Tastes better when you aren't eating it every day. Actually that goes for pretty much all food.

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      const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
      SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
    6. Re:Sounds really low by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I have and recommend one of these. Much better than a two hour pushup or massage table. Expensive, yes, but if you're having sex 9 hours a week, it is totally worth it.

      Note, some parts of that site may be NSFW, but the link I provided is fine.

    7. Re:Sounds really low by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Next, I'd say to guys *always* make sure she has an orgasm. Your orgasm is actually the optional one if you want to have a lot of sex- not hers

      this is laughably false. women are not machines that you put niceness coins into and then blowjobs fall out.

    8. Re:Sounds really low by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      > Your orgasm is actually the optional one if you want to have a lot of sex- not hers.

      My method is to never initiate sex. She comes to me when needy and my orgasm becomes the required one. I have less sex, probably, but boy is it fun when I do!

    9. Re:Sounds really low by Maxo-Texas · · Score: 1

      Think of it this way..

      Would it be an addiction to watch 9 hours of television per week, 3 nights for 3 hours?

      Would it be an addiction (in season) to watch 9 hours of football per week, 3 hours one day and 6 hours on Sunday?

      Would it be an addiction to work out 9 hours a week (and make no mistake- I have 6 pack abs that I do situps, crunches, etc. for).

      Would it be an addiction to walk 9 hours a week (perhaps in 3, 3 hour strolls tho actually I tend to walk 7 hours a week in 7 1 hour strolls).

      Would it be an addiction to play video games 9 hours a week, 3 hours each time?

      Would it be an addiction to go out dancing 3 nights a week for 3 hours each time?

      How about going to church times a week for 3 hours (sunday, wednesday and one other day are not uncommon)

      I don't watch football. I only watch 2-4 hours of television. With my bum knee I don't go out dancing any more.

      I adore and cherish the person I have sex with. She has a lot of pleasure and happiness because of me. What's wrong with sharing pleasure with a person you adore and cherish?

      Please understand, I'm coming from a place of joy and making helpful suggestions. Seriously- dancing is much easier than pushups. And it's not non-stop thrusting. It's lots of petting, kissing, talking, and mixing it up. And a lot of edging for me which is like having 10 minute full body orgasms.

      ---

      I do still ski but that's getting bloody expensive. And when I ski, I ski 6-7 hours a day for 4 days a week.

      ---

      Try to judge less. I'm glad you are happy with your own sex life.

      --
      She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.
    10. Re:Sounds really low by Maxo-Texas · · Score: 1

      Perhaps you are simply being being simplistic.

      I'd reconsider your opinion.

      Try this.

      A woman who is already in a romantic relationship with you will be more attracted to you if you give her positive social strokes and don't give her negative social strokes.

      A woman who expects to have an orgasm with you is more likely to have an orgasm with you.
      A woman who does not expect to have an orgasm with you is less likely to have an orgasm with you.

      Once men have an orgasm, they usually lose interest in further sex.

      Women are more complicated. Some stop after one. Some are capable of having unlimited orgasms of many nuanced types. I can't even put a number on it, there are so many kinds. Men are also capable of having multiple types of orgasms but many men only experience the basic kind which is centered within a few inches of the male genitalia. It takes time for nerve pathways to open up. 3-15 minutes isn't sufficient.

      We can continue subdividing and adding nuance to this discussion. It's almost endlessly complex and deep.

      I think you are wrong in one regard. Humans salivate in anticipation of food. Humans can be trained the same as pavlov's dogs. It's a measurable physical response- not a mental response. Humans (not just women) are organic machines. As we consciously treat ourselves as organic machines, we open interesting possibilities.

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      She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.
    11. Re:Sounds really low by Maxo-Texas · · Score: 1

      Mostly, you meet the classic sex addiction definition.

      "A sex addict is someone who has more sex than I do."

      Here's the real definition

      Sexual addiction, also known as sex addiction, is a state characterized by compulsive participation or engagement in sexual activity, particularly sexual intercourse, despite negative consequences.

      There are no negative consequences. I'm not engaging in risky unprotected sex with many different partners who I know to be risky. I'm not putting my relationship at risk. I'm not putting my (minimal) employment at risk.

      Yes I agree that long hours, reduced purchasing power, a huge glut of entertainment options, addictive video games (which DO put your relationship at risk by stopping you from spending time with your partner because they are designed from the ground up to addict you with classic skinner box methods) probably all play a part.

      Don't take what I wrote the wrong way. As Baz said, "Advice is a form of nostalgia. Dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than itâ(TM)s worth."

      My advice on sex is nothing more than the result of my own experience.

      You should also wear sunscreen. (tho it's not perfect either).

      --
      She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.
  42. Can't they stop altogether? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Can't they stop altogether and raise the average IQ of the planet?

  43. 20 years ago by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    That's because 20 years ago I wasn't married.

  44. Obligatory AmazingSuperPowers comic by Cigamit · · Score: 1

    Seemed kinda relevant....
    http://www.amazingsuperpowers....

  45. The real reasons are... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    1) Internet available anywhere
    2) High bandwidth
    3) HD porn

  46. Duh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    It's because it's just a bit tougher when you're 20 years older. :P

  47. Make America Great Again by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I for once welcome Trump's motto

  48. The best birth control by superwiz · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Children. Yep, having children is the best birth control. And the 2000s had a spike in birth rates. In fact, the underlying cause of the housing bubble (not the finances which allowed it, but the behavior which these finances paid for) was people starting new families. The wedding industry boomed as well. And well, the saying is pretty old, but it still holds true. The best birth control is having children.

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    1. Re:The best birth control by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Nailed it. Between careers and the multitude of stuff one has to do while raising kids these days, there's no time or energy for it.
      Sigh.

    2. Re:The best birth control by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Why do people think less sex is a bad thing? Less sex means less babies.

      We have limited resources, and medicine is systematically eliminating anything that would keep our population in check. Imagine the environmental improvement if the population was lower in Africa, and Asia! Imagine reduced immigration stress. Imagine reduced poverty. Think I'm crazy? Watch this.

      Whether it is social media, cell phones, obesity, etc... anything that lowers the human birth rate and controls the population is a good thing for the planet!

    3. Re:The best birth control by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      >underlying cause of the housing bubble (not the finances which allowed it, but the behavior which these finances paid for) was people starting new families

      I'm sure that was a factor, but I highly doubt it was the only reason. There was rampant speculation at both high (major bankers and investors) and low (individuals trying to flip houses, see Casey Serin) levels. That Community Reinvestment Act that encouraged sub-prime lending was partially responsible as well. I could also claim illegal immigration was a factor since they needed housing as well.

  49. Sex Sells by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    This study really should be picked up by the Nokia 3310 marketing folks.

  50. No love - dull sex by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    We are living in a post-love world.

  51. Speak for yourself by ragahast · · Score: 1

    I'm having much more sex than I was 20 years ago.

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    .:Semper Absurda:.
  52. This is all by b783719 · · Score: 1

    due to Facebook. Their new app has caused an increasing number of men walking into car park poles, hitting their crouch and disabling their third leg feature.

    Since it requires time to recover their feature completely after being disabled, Facebook should add additional male enhancement content in the morning to ensure men's third leg feature can be fully recovered by the time it is night time.

  53. Bingo! by Qbertino · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Too much Fa(r)cebook.
    Seriously, the number of people who spend all their relaxation time buried in that pile of steaming shite
    and ignoring their partner is just astounding, no wonder no intimacy happens ...

    Especially, I have to say it sorry, women. Many seem to spend much of their lives following all the other
    women they know, and thinking that everyone else lives a better life than them (while also themselves
    only posting the highlights of their own lives there, as glamorized as possible..).

    Bingo!
    I totally second that. Had precisely that experience with my last attempt to build a feasible relationship.
    People need a basic ettiquette when it comes to social media and smartphones. Smartphone, tablet and laptop off when you're having quality time with your SO is my rule.

    Facebook is not a social network, it's a global mental illness.

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    We suffer more in our imagination than in reality. - Seneca
    1. Re:Bingo! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      "Facebook is not a social network, it's a global mental illness."

      Should be a tagline

    2. Re:Bingo! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Facebook is not a social network, it's a global mental illness.

      best line ever! But we need to add how terrible it is for global politics as well. Filter bubble effects and those quizzes designed to identify people susceptible to BS and identified to receive personalized A/B tested propaganda. Someone out there has a push button remote control to the pysche of the nation(s). Its FUBAR.

  54. Good for you! by Qbertino · · Score: 2

    I'm closing on 60 and still averaging over 150 a year (and about 9 hours a week).

    Lucky bastard. ... Good for you.

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    We suffer more in our imagination than in reality. - Seneca
    1. Re:Good for you! by Maxo-Texas · · Score: 1

      Thank you.

      Not everyone likes sex. Some people have no trauma but are naturally asexual. For some people it's painful in various ways. For others it's not all that pleasurable.

      Each person has their own personal right level for all things and they should be doing what leaves them happy long term.

      I'll most likely be dead in 18-22 years and probably not have a lot of sex in my 70s without ed drugs. Many men in their 70s suffer from ed.

      Another thing I recommend to men is to get their testosterone levels formally checked. If you are under 300, you probably need supplementation. Low testosterone causes foggy thinking, free floating anxiety/dread, poor sleep, low sex drive, etc. etc.

      About 1/4 of men over 40 suffer from it. Personally, I think it' a cause for sudden late life alcoholism.

      You can get it much less expensively at compounding pharmacies. It's affordable even if you don't have insurance and it can prevent blood pressure and other disorders. When you finally get prostate cancer, your doctor will typically end it very rapidly but you may have had 30 happy years in the mean time.

      The range is about 300 to 1050. My doc keeps me at 450 which is low normal.

      As I posted elsewhere, I don't do a lot of other activities (like watching 9 hour of TV a week, 9 hours of sports, 9 hours of time at the gym, 9 hours at church or reading a Bible in a Year book, and so on.

      --
      She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.
  55. Pornography by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    www.yourbrainonporn.com

    Plus the fact that maybe human beings aren't supposed to have sex five times a week? And you've been lied to, continuously, for the past 50 years, by the Jewish media?

    1. Re: Pornography by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      So, out of curiosity, why would the (I'll take your premise as a given) Jew-controlled media encourage excessive copulation among the goyim? I know for Jews, reproduction is a mitzvah, but what benefit do they get encouraging me to constantly be fucking?

    2. Re:Pornography by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      > Plus the fact that maybe human beings aren't supposed to have sex five times a week?

      Yeah, I find such "alternative facts" highly questionable. I don't think there's any "supposed to" about it.

      And as for these "harmful" effects of pornography, none of them are really "harm," they just make people unhappy in various ways. You know what I do when something makes me unhappy? I avoid it. Problem solved. Doesn't mean I have to rid the world of it.

    3. Re:Pornography by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The Onion did a hilarious segment on "Children Exposed to Porn May Expect Sex to Be Enjoyable"

  56. OH, SHI- by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I don't even think I've ever seen a rule of 34 for that

    You just HAD to say it, didn't you?

  57. Mea culpa by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I'm sorry, time takes it toll and I'm not as young as I used to be.

  58. not all americans by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    They only surveyed over 18. If this was a survey about under 18 they'd see that it's gone up a huge percentage in the last 20 years.

  59. Stress/Anxiety from working too much by zifn4b · · Score: 2

    People are working more hours than they used to 20 years ago. When stress and anxiety increases, fight or flight response kicks in releasing all kinds of chemicals like cortisol. What this does is it shuts down parts of the body that it deems unnecessary in preparation to fight. These are things like digestion and reproductive functions among other things. I can't wait to see the news stories of the 90's come around again over the concern that Americans aren't having enough children. America has family values? Ha!

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    We'll make great pets
  60. Re: Porn Faster, People Fatter by retroworks · · Score: 1

    Relative speed and quality of porn (so I'm told) vs. aging, fattening population trends

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    Gently reply
  61. Mom's Basement and Hysteresis by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    According to PEW Research[1]:

    > For men ages 18 to 34, living at home with mom and/or dad has been the dominant living arrangement since 2009. In 2014, 28% of young men were living with a spouse or partner in their own home, while 35% were living in the home of their parent(s).

    These basement dwelling neckbeards just to get out of their "aparentments" and get laid. The main obstacle is money: As PEW points out, this trend became dominant in 2009... the result of the Great Recession. Unfortunately, it's unlikely Trump will be able to "make America great again" and reverse this trend, due to hysteresis[2]:

    > severe economic downturns (recession) and/or persistent stagnation (slow demand growth, usually after a recession) cause unemployed individuals to lose their job skills (commonly developed on the job) or to find them become obsolete or become demotivated/disillusioned/depressed or lose job-seeking skills. In addition, employers may use time spent in unemployment as a screening tool, i.e., to weed out less desired employees in hiring decisions. Then, in times of an economic upturn, recovery, or 'boom', the affected workers will not share in the prosperity, remaining unemployed for long periods (e.g., over 52 weeks).

    [1]: "For First Time in Modern Era, Living With Parents Edges Out Other Living Arrangements for 18- to 34-Year-Olds." By Richard Fry. PEW Research. May 24, 2016. http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2016/05/24/for-first-time-in-modern-era-living-with-parents-edges-out-other-living-arrangements-for-18-to-34-year-olds/

    [2]: "Hysteresis / Permanently higher unemployment." From Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hysteresis#Permanently_higher_unemployment

    1. Re:Mom's Basement and Hysteresis by nukenerd · · Score: 1

      These basement dwelling neckbeards just to get out of their "aparentments" and get laid. The main obstacle is money:

      No, the main obstacle is shortage of women willing to get laid. Large numbers of women have turned away from men entirely, so there are too many men chasing too few women - so women can be fussy. I believe that the neckbeard syndrome is the result not the cause of this.

      I cannot imagine any woman liking a neckbeard (or any sort of beard) anyway. My first advice would be to shave it off. However, beards are only one of many ways in which some men contrive to make themselves revolting to most women (obesity, smoking, drinking, attitude are others). Jeez, I found dating hard enough and I was not bad looking, athletic, well-off and have no bad habits; I hate to think how difficult it must be for men who seem to make obstacles for themselves deliberately.

      As for "getting out of their apartments and get laid", perhaps you would like to fill us in with more detail on the intermediate steps. It isn't easy, I found.

    2. Re:Mom's Basement and Hysteresis by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      >> The main obstacle is money
      > No, the main obstacle is shortage of women willing to get laid.

      You might be surprised how much more willing they are when you have money.

  62. And Even Less Sex Than Forty Years Ago by sudon't · · Score: 2

    If I told young people how much sex we had in the seventies, they wouldn't even believe it. The eighties were pretty good, too, and I understand the sixties were, as well. We are living in very conservative times, yet many seem not to realize it. Also, kids, still waiting for you to move on from Punk Rock and create something new in Rock.

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    -- sudon't

    Air-ride Equipped

    1. Re:And Even Less Sex Than Forty Years Ago by mjwx · · Score: 1

      If I told young people how much sex we had in the seventies, they wouldn't even believe it. The eighties were pretty good, too, and I understand the sixties were, as well. We are living in very conservative times, yet many seem not to realize it.

      I think this is the root cause of it. Conservatives, especially religious conservatives are very anti-sex. Sex means people enjoying themselves, forgetting about the fabricated horrors that conservatives need to generate in order to stay in power. They try to paint sex as a shameful act as sex is a powerful enough drive that it erodes their hold over people.

      I think a large part of the shaming culture has come from conservative sources, hell, their entire election campaign was based on trying to shame the opposition. I'm not just talking about Trump here, Cameron (UK) and Turnbull (Aus) did the same things in their election campaigns with the aid of Murdoch's media empire.

      Japan is point in case for conservatism killing sex. The conservatives has pushed young people to the point where they no longer have the time or money to pursue complicated courting rituals. Now that is paying dividends in an aging nation.

      If we want to have more sex (and better sex) we need to be more liberal. The sexual liberation of the late 60's was directly responsible for the sex in the seventies.

      --
      Calling someone a "hater" only means you can not rationally rebut their argument.
    2. Re:And Even Less Sex Than Forty Years Ago by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      How good was the internet back then? Because internet >> sex. This is self-evident. Otherwise there would be a lot more people fucking and a lot less people browsing.

    3. Re:And Even Less Sex Than Forty Years Ago by nukenerd · · Score: 1

      If I told young people how much sex we had in the seventies, they wouldn't even believe it.

      I was there in the 70/80's and I have a job to believe it too. The girlfriends I had then were all resolute virgins. At least they acted as virgins when it came to me.

    4. Re:And Even Less Sex Than Forty Years Ago by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Also, kids, still waiting for you to move on from Punk Rock and create something new in Rock.

      As someone who's between young and old I suggest you stick to the sex advice. The kids did move on, your fixation on rock must have made you miss that.

    5. Re:And Even Less Sex Than Forty Years Ago by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Also, kids, still waiting for you to move on from Punk Rock and create something new in Rock.

      You may as well wait for the next evolution of Big Band groups or Disco while you're at it. Well established genres don't tend to change much, other than by forming offshoot genres.

    6. Re:And Even Less Sex Than Forty Years Ago by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      > The sexual liberation of the late 60's was directly responsible for the sex in the seventies.

      That and the Pill. AIDS was directly responsible for killing that vibe in the '80s.

      > I think this is the root cause of it. Conservatives, especially religious conservatives are very anti-sex.

      As are gender feminists. They teach that male sexual desire is a form of objectifying patriarchal domination, that women cannot meaningfully consent EVER in a male-dominated society, ergo sex with a man is ALWAYS rape. The only "equal" sex a woman can have is with another woman.

    7. Re:And Even Less Sex Than Forty Years Ago by sudon't · · Score: 1

      The kids did move on, your fixation on rock must have made you miss that.

      So Rock really is dead this time? I suspected as much. It's not like I missed Hip Hop and EDM, but I was kinda hoping for a revolution in Rock, (as opposed to endless rehashing and fetishizing of the past that it's become).

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      -- sudon't

      Air-ride Equipped

    8. Re:And Even Less Sex Than Forty Years Ago by sudon't · · Score: 1

      You may as well wait for the next evolution of Big Band groups or Disco while you're at it. Well established genres don't tend to change much, other than by forming offshoot genres.

      No need to wait. Jazz did evolve. The next evolution of Jazz was that Big Bands were out. That's how it works - you do something new. You don't evolve by continuing to do the same things. Electronic music evolved. Disco splintered into House and Hip Hop. House led to EDM. Rock, on the other hand, seems stuck in a rut. No new Elvis, Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, or Sex Pistols equivilent - there's been no revolution in Rock for decades. I think part of the problem is that today's kids just aren't very rebellious. They seem content to mine the past. Which, come to think of it, is probably why they can't get laid.

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      -- sudon't

      Air-ride Equipped

    9. Re:And Even Less Sex Than Forty Years Ago by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      > Rock, on the other hand, seems stuck in a rut. No new Elvis, Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, or Sex Pistols equivilent - there's been no revolution in Rock for decades.

      Grunge was the last significant rock makeover. It was basically angsty post-punk punk, only this time we're sincere about it. No silliness allowed!

      Gen Y looked back at New Wave and said, "pffft, I'm too fucking cool for that shit."

  63. How can they not know? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    When you're working 30 hours a week just to pay for the college you're going to, you don't have time to go out.

    When you're working 70 hours a week between two jobs just to pay the bills, you're in no condition or mood to be having sex if you're even conscious enough to do so to begin with.

    And with the constant dismantlement of any safety-nets and aid should anything *happen* from having sex, you have to worry about consequences that the rich folk don't as well.

  64. Improved economic opportunities for women by swb · · Score: 4, Interesting

    As women move further up the ladder economically they are less and less dependent on men. While women still have their own inherent sexual drive, their sex drive is lower than men for a variety of reasons -- when they are younger, due to the inherent risks of pregnancy and child-rearing, and as they age, due to the decline in fertility and the increased risks of childbirth that come with aging.

    I think there's all kinds of evolutionary biology that suggests that sex drive in women is tied to the availability a reliable provider. Pregnant women and women with small children have much greater survival vulnerability -- reduced mobility, increases in risks from physical threats, increased nutritional requirements for both them and any offspring too young to participate in food gathering. And this remains true whether you're talking about a hunter-gatherer community or contemporary American economics -- pregnancy and child-bearing are significant drags on female economic advancement in our economy.

    Not only does having a reliable economic provider create the conditions for reduced child-bearing risk and increase innate sex drive, it also creates an environment where women are more likely to meet male sexual demands because of their economic dependency. They have both fewer disincentives for sexual activity and incentives to meet their partners demands for sexual contact even when their own sexual desire thresholds aren't met.

    I think this goes some way to explaining why conservatives favor traditional female roles -- increased female dependency leads to increased male access to sexuality.

    The way to improve the sagging sexual numbers in the US is probably much stronger economic rights for pregnant women (reduce economic risks associated with pregnancy). It won't help women at the end or past their fertility, though, since nature is already doing its job to reduce desire via declining hormones to prevent high risk pregnancies or because pregnancy is not possible.

    1. Re:Improved economic opportunities for women by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The way to improve the sagging sexual numbers in the US is probably much stronger economic rights for pregnant women (reduce economic risks associated with pregnancy). It won't help women at the end or past their fertility, though, since nature is already doing its job to reduce desire via declining hormones to prevent high risk pregnancies or because pregnancy is not possible.

      What does that mean? Does it mean that the financially responsible for her choice? or does that mean society is financially responsible for her choice?

    2. Re:Improved economic opportunities for women by Dripdry · · Score: 1

      As they age!? Are you KIDDING me!?

      Any woman I've dated over 35 is a raging hormone-fed sex rodeo that is, frankly, slightly terrifying sometimes.

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    3. Re:Improved economic opportunities for women by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      If society wants more babies, then society needs to put up or shut up.

      Feel free to keep screaming about not having kids you can't afford, but be prepared for the consequences.

    4. Re:Improved economic opportunities for women by nukenerd · · Score: 1

      As women move further up the ladder economically they are less and less dependent on men. While women still have their own inherent sexual drive, their sex drive is lower than men.

      This is right, but you do not mention all the implications. One result is that a significant proportion of women (in the West at least) can and do reject men entirely, or have a brief sexual fling around the mid-20s, and then no more. This means that while males and females are born in roughly equal numbers, by their late 20's there are too many potentially active men for the number of active women. I have read it claimed that "90% of the sex is had by 10% of the men" - probably an overstatement but you get the point.

      Add to this (in the UK at least) the fact that many working class girls (who usually make better partners than career women TBH) have an illegitimate child as a result of which they withdraw from society as they cannot afford baby care - but meanwhile the absentee father carries on in the dating game from the very next day.

      Add to this the fact that the majority of immigrants (H1Bs in the USA for example) are male, only partly balanced by the fact that the proportion of prostitutes among female immigrants (again, in the UK at least) is significantly higher than among females as a whole.

      I think if I had my time again I would not bother with Western women at all; I would look for a recent Indian or Oriental immigrant girl. I've heard that they like Englishmen.

    5. Re:Improved economic opportunities for women by swb · · Score: 1

      I had that experience when I was younger and single but every married man I know over the age of 35 complains about his wife's lack of interest in sex.

      I don't know any single, childless women over 35, but I have a theory that bearing children may alter hormone chemistry, that when combined with aging accelerates a decline in libido. This would seem to make some kind of evolutionary sense since having already reproduced they would face less biological pressure to do so and the decline in fertility would also dovetail with a decline in libido.

      These married women with children aren't *just* tired, overworked or resentful of their spouses' lack of domestic help, they've *successfully reproduced* -- they've managed to achieve a genetic milestone and combined with the risks of late life pregnancy they simply lose their innate drive for reproduction. It takes conscious effort or some other external motivation (like economic dependency) to motivate them into sexual behavior.

      Women who have never borne children might be expected from an evolutionary perspective to maintain a higher drive for reproduction, even as the hazards of late fertility mount, since even a low success rate reproducing is better than a zero success rate associated with remaining childless. The drive to perpetuate one's genes is strong.

      Among fertile women who have children under 12 or 13 but unattached, I would expect a higher level libido -- there would be both material economic pressure and some kind of evolutionary biological pressure to capture a mate, and demonstrating a willingness to provide sexual gratification and reproduction with a new mate would be high, since the woman is asking for a mate to aid in providing for someone else's offspring -- a significant demand in terms of biology.

      I think you can get into contradictory situations with older, post-fertile women who have no spouse. I think social expectations can lead to paradoxical psychology that runs counter to general evolutionary biology. These women may be sexually active, but it's not a byproduct of reproductive libido, but choices made in response to social or psychological expectations, or even some kinds of neurosis surrounding aging or self-image. The aging woman who refuses to acknowledge her aging and insists on mimicking the behavior of young women in terms of style and associations is a familiar trope, and is often a subject of scorn or pity.

      I did read a profile of a researcher who was doing research on what she called "female libido collapse disorder" where she found a large percentage of women over roughly 40 experienced a steep decline in libido, so it's not an idea I've completely made up. It's also interesting to note some of the dissension surrounding Flibanserin, "the female Viagra". Some of it was legitimate questions around the drug's rate of effectiveness or side effects, but there was a lot of it that I would call philosophical opposition, people who were opposed to a drug that treated lack of libido like it was a problem or unnatural -- as if some natural process was being undermined, and that it was normal for women to lose their libido even in the absence of external forces.

    6. Re:Improved economic opportunities for women by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      > I have a theory that bearing children may alter hormone chemistry

      It does, in fact there is some evidence that this may be related to later-born sons having a greater chance of being gay than earlier-born sons.

  65. 53 a year! by DirkDaring · · Score: 1

    Man I'm in for one hell of a December!

  66. Ah... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    So they're interfering with your precious bodily fluids?

  67. Oy vey, "addiction" by fyngyrz · · Score: 2

    That sounds more like an addiction instead of genuinely, fully enjoying that all the way through and just happening to take that amount of time

    Honestly, that is hilarious. I had to put my coffee down. You literally have no idea what you're saying. Addiction... for indulging in a basic human need. Good grief. You really need to find a new metaphor for people doing things they enjoy and likely do well.

    My advice is to put a lot of effort into losing the psychobabble (also put down the cellphone[s] if that's where you and/or yours are spending significant amounts of time) and put some real effort into romance. Then perhaps you'll also get to participate in one of the most enjoyable, life-affirming, relationship-cementing activities out there at a rate higher than "I think we did that last month, didn't we?"

    If not, you need a new partner. Or a partner, period.

    Tip: Even if you're really busy, you both have to eat... and even meals can be romantic. Put some effort into it. Offhand / surface approaches aren't the way to go here. In a long-term relationship, when someone really feels cherished, that tends to work out really, really well. Tell your partner how you feel. Figure out how they feel. Proactively address their needs and desires. "Too tired" really means "too lazy, already wasted my free time on something other than you." At which point you deserve what you get. Which may be very little indeed.

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    I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
    1. Re:Oy vey, "addiction" by el_chupanegre · · Score: 1

      I'm very happy with my sex life, but thanks for going straight for the strawman and ad hominem all-in-one.

      I know exactly what I'm saying: that spending 3 hours on average having sex every single time is just so far to the right of the bell-curve it can't even see the middle any more. That's also not accounting for sex being off-the-table 1 week out of every 4 for most men in monogamous relationships, plus things like times when you are ill, one of you is away without the other (e.g. a business trip) or if you are working different shifts. If you factored all that in, the average would be north of 4 hours in a single session every single time every other day.

      Try working an 8 hour day plus commute time, fulfilling your basic needs (like eating, washing and sleeping) and potentially those of your children, doing chores and then find the time and energy for a 4 hour romp... There literally aren't enough hours in the day for the average person to do that.

      You better not have any other hobbies or interests either or you'll have no chance of getting those 9 hours per week in and you will have failed at sex.

    2. Re:Oy vey, "addiction" by fyngyrz · · Score: 1

      I'm very happy with my sex life, but thanks for going straight for the strawman and ad hominem all-in-one.

      You may very well be happy with your own sex life, but you were the one who threw "sounds like addiction" on the table in response to a quite positive post about someone else's sex life, which indicates 100% clearly that you are sans clue and paddle with regard to the sex lives of others.

      Feel free to protest all you want. You're still wrong.

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      I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
    3. Re:Oy vey, "addiction" by epine · · Score: 1

      Addiction... for indulging in a basic human need.

      There's no evolutionary need for nine hours a week. What every sexologist has discovered is that people are different. While I wouldn't necessarily call it an addiction, I wouldn't rule it out, either.

      Besides, most people informally use the word 'addiction' to imply that moderation has departed the building (presumably under a dark cloud) and I think that's what was intended here.

      If sex caused weight gain the same way excess sugar intake causes weight gain, you wouldn't be chirping about "basic human needs". You'd be croaking something about basic human needs instead, and sizing up some Princess Leia to service your bariatric desires, only to find yourself thwarted by Hans Solo.

    4. Re:Oy vey, "addiction" by fyngyrz · · Score: 2

      There's no evolutionary need for nine hours a week

      Evolution is not always (or even, often) the arbiter of normal human behavior. Sexuality is a complex personal and social component. It can't be reduced to evolutionary talking points.

      most people informally use the word 'addiction' to imply that moderation has departed the building

      Imprecision and inaccuracy are rampant in the population at large. That is one reason (though not the only one) why we see such words as addiction being profoundly misused. However, even were it so that "moderation has left the building" was what addiction meant, and that was the intent of the above post, the poster would still have been just as wrong, and in just the same way. Nine hours out of 112 hours (16 hours times seven days, allowing for 8 hours of sleep per day, which may be generous) is about 8% of one's waking hours. Which is to say, 92% of your (waking) time you're doing something else. To describe this as either "moderation has left the building" or "addiction" is simply ludicrous.

      Doesn't mean you, or anyone else, has to stretch to hit such a mark. Or back off to hit it. It just means characterizing it as "addiction" or "lack of moderation" are both absurd.

      How many people do you think spend nine (or more) hours watching television in the course of a week? Using their phone? Bicycling? Dancing? Playing chess? Are they "addicted" in either the accurate sense or in the sense of your proposed placeholder for lack of moderation? Doubtful. Most are just doing what they like to do. Which is not even close to a reasonable take on what addiction means, either when used correctly, or in some vague, inaccurate sense that might be in casual use.

      There's also a question of which activities might actually require or benefit from moderation, and why. Consensual, informed sexual activity isn't a good candidate for this at all.

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    5. Re:Oy vey, "addiction" by angel'o'sphere · · Score: 1

      If he was addicted he would do it 3 or 4 times _every_ day.
      Not 3 times a week for 3 hours.

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    6. Re:Oy vey, "addiction" by el_chupanegre · · Score: 1

      You're right, 150 times per year at 3+ hours per sex session is completely normal and practical for the average American, as the study clearly shows. How foolish of me to think that wasn't the case. In other news, people who drink 40 beers a night 150 times a year are just having a great time!

      Unless of course, I was right when I said that 3+ hours was just a huge outlier. Here's the Wikipedia page backed by a medical study which found that median time is 5.4 minutes of penetration (3.4 minutes for over 50s). Of course that's only the penetration part, but if you're spending 3 hours on 'the rest' then I'd hardly call that having sex for 3 hours. If you spend 40 minutes warming up, run for 10 minutes and spend 40 minutes stretching afterwards you can't really say you ran for an hour and a half.

      Congratulations to the OP on enjoying himself, but for me if I can run a marathon faster than I can have sex, that's just too long. I wouldn't be enjoying myself after even half that time and I'd just be going through the motions for some kind of macho claim that I can. 40-60 minutes from start to finish is just fine for me.

    7. Re:Oy vey, "addiction" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      My shortest length of sexual activity with one of my friends is about an hour.

      3 hours is something we do occassionally as well, time permitting.

      Not married, so no steady partner yet...... and never heard any complains about my performance, lol.

    8. Re:Oy vey, "addiction" by Maxo-Texas · · Score: 1

      Addiction starts where you begin negatively impacting your life.

      People who go to bars 3 nights a week, for 3 hours a night, have a social life not an addiction. (they also have more money than sense IMHO! lol! but they are happy).

      People who can't stop drinking after the first drink and wake up 2 days later having lost their job have an addiction.

      People who risk their health, their relationships, and their freedom (i.e. jail) due to unsafe sex but they can't stop have an addiction.

      People who risk their health staying up 24 hours straight playing a video game but they can't stop have an addiction. (some people die from that stuff).

      And by those standards, I had a serious addiction to Timothy Zahn, Admiral Thrawn star wars books. Man I missed 2 days work over those books ( and I didn't start the 3rd one until a saturday since I knew if I started on a weeknight, I'd miss work and mess up my sleep).

      Lots of people engage in activities at immoderate levels. If it's not harming their health, relationships, job, etc. it's not a problem. If they are happy, it's all cool.

      And seriously... massage table for the win.

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  68. Agreed & disease + sex harassment too by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    See subject: Every guy PAYS for it. Face facts. You wine/dine women. Prostitute's most honest woman there is in other words.

    Then, there's the threat of disease (women might as well have piranha teeth down there in other words) or 'sexual harassment' suits.

    Who needs either? I certainly don't (& between 1984-2004 or so I must've slept w/ 1500 women but the disease presence became too much of a risk).

    * Plus, face it - Unless YOU feel good about YOU (& w/ guys, being one myself, it's largely being confident in your life)? You aren't going to GET any - period.

    It could be worse though - you could be in India or China where men outnumber women what? 20++:1??

    APK

    P.S.=> The "powers that be" want depopulation? Between wars & this "have & have not" impoverishment destruction of the middle class, as well as stress in holding onto your income (as is, not as good as it was 20 yrs. ago)? They'll get it (except for welfare cases popping out MORE ON YOUR DIME taxpayers to turn kids into a paycheck) Good luck getting laid - no boys, "it ain't happening" & this article proves it (I feel sorry for young men nowadays - you're being ROBBED in more ways than 1)... apk

  69. Wait a minute... by pastafazou · · Score: 1

    They contributed the slowdown to: 1) more single people, who have less sex than married people, and 2) married people having less sex. So, in essence, people are having less sex, because people are having less sex? Clearly government funded researchers doing this one...SMH

  70. Did everyone forget the obvious by ryanmetcalf · · Score: 2

    Let's not forget or skip the more important fact that obesity has TRIPLED in the US since the 1990s. I've seen so many comments blaming Facebook, smart phones, or legislation. With so many of us so much bigger than we were in the 90's, it should come as NO surprise that everyone is being physical less frequently. http://stateofobesity.org/adul...

  71. Re: GOD HATES FAGS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Awww, its so cute, adults having imaginary friends, especially those who protesteth too much, to hide their desire for butt sex, like you old chap.
    "It's always the one you least expect"
    Satan in the form of Ned Flanders, in Homers Soul Donut.

  72. It should be pretty damn obvious... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    ...that the intersection of smartphones and porn is the culprit. This affects all age groups, married or not. When I was a teen, my only options were to somehow obtain a magazine or crappy VHS tape, or, to fuck a real girl. Now we can just load up any imaginable genre of porn and fulfill our desires anywhere and any time, making us less interested in the real deal. I am speaking from experience.

  73. Political 'corectness' and feminism by dimko · · Score: 1

    Those of us in MGTOW are precisely aware why it happens. Females given all freedoms and they don't take responsibilities. All western world in decline in population cause of it. I am not racist I don't care much about white people. But what I do care, is that Americo-European culture will die out. I am pretty sure of Europe at this stage if nothing changes. Emigrants multiply and dont contribute to society. And yes, I am emigrant and yes I know of exceptions.

  74. Two things by nyri · · Score: 1

    First, men are masturbating to easily available Internet porn (and women also to some extend). It's hard to get hard on with a real woman when you have ejaculated to 10x more beautiful and younger girl just yesterday and you have a completely new such girl awaiting you behind a couple of clicks.

    Two, women are getting fatter and fatter. Men are visual and a normal girl these days have such a fat asses that you need to look the other way to maintain an erection. Or at least I need to. I tried to have sex with these fat asses couple of a few times (they are easily available in Tinder and typically comply to having sex on first date) but now I rather blue ball my self or jack off.

    Either of these problems are not discussed in polite company, so we can expect that nothing will be done about it. Men should quit porn. The urges that will kick in a couple of days will drive them to seek more human interaction. The second part is that as a society we should identify which food ingredients drive epidemic level of fatness. I think sugar is to blame as is also the food industry to some extend that is trying to make food as addictive as possible. People treat some food stuff with same behavioural patters as they would treat cocaine.

    1. Re:Two things by david_thornley · · Score: 1

      I'm not an expert on this, but you may have the role of porn reversed. I find that a life-sized three-dimensional woman who I can touch and smell and who touches me is much better than any porn video. For singles, it might be that staying home with a computer and hand lotion is better than going out and getting shot down, but I'm not sure of the same effect on married couples. I'm inclined to think that porn is more likely to be a substitute for sex that's unavailable or unsatisfying.

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  75. This is obvious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    My wife was a lot prettier 20 years ago.

  76. More geeks, less sex by tekrat · · Score: 1

    That's because there are more geeks now than 20 years ago. Duh. And geeks don't get to have sex. It's like some kind of unwritten law. Or maybe it is written, I haven't bothered to google that.

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    1. Re:More geeks, less sex by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      That goes double for OLD geeks. Now that I'm 50, I have to look back with regret on my 20s when I actually found women my own age attractive.

      Nothing against 40-50-something women. Many of them are very nice looking but they just don't turn me on sexually. I have to pretend I'm with a younger woman to get off.

      People have recommended eHarmony and other dating services to me, but when I read the ads posted by women, "short, bald, middle-aged geek" is not exactly at the top of the list of qualities they're looking for.

  77. 54 times per year? by tekrat · · Score: 1

    Holy crud... I'd settle for 54 in a lifetime.

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  78. God Love The 80's by sdinfoserv · · Score: 1

    I personally am also having less sex than 20 (or 30) years ago.. but i digress/.

  79. Trumpies.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    What can you expect? If your idea of good times translates to "grab them by the pussy", I'm impressed you haven't gone extinct

  80. Wait till... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Realistic Robot Companions get into the mix. :) Fingers crossed they pop onto the scene before I'm dead.

    IMO, intimate relationships just aren't worth the trouble these days. I have no interest in bringing a kid into the world, and between a few failed relationships and TV sitcom horrors, I have no interest in chaining myself to another person. I've got plenty of friends, so the social necessities are covered and porn takes care of the other urges. No reason I need to piss away money, time or energy enduring misery on the off chance she'll say yes once a year.

    I'm not MGTOW and certainly don't hate women, but the cost / benefit of a relationship in order to get some sexual congress just isn't worth it to me and if the numbers are down I suspect others feel the same way. Sure I could go the paid companion route, but it's still pretty much illegal in most states and I don't need the headache or the guilt.

  81. Happy women's day! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Within a generation we'll be rid of oppressive PIV intercourse! Hip, hip, hurrah!

  82. Reduction doesn't matter by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    ... when I'm a 52-year-old virgin, you insensitive clod.

  83. One word... by nightfire-unique · · Score: 1

    Obesity.

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  84. Use to be if you had a child by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    It would be OK now it will bankrupt you and ruin your lives.

  85. I beg to differ by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Get some lube, regardless what your penis looks like, it'll only feel several orders of magnitude better.

    I beg to differ. If it feels better with lotion, then your gripping it too tight.

    I used to use lotion. I'll never go back.

    1. Re: I beg to differ by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Ding, ding, ding. We have a winner. You might also be grabbing it to close to the head. Free be a happy medium just above the center of the shaft. Plus let's face it, if the doctor doesn't do the procedure correctly he might not leave enough skin behind for you to "work with" properly in your later years. I have had no problems or issues being cut and most women I've spoken with worth fucking prefer cut to not cut.

    2. Re: I beg to differ by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It's still mutilation of children without their informed consent, and should be illegal.

  86. Interesting... by dyslexicbunny · · Score: 1

    20 years ago I wasn't having any cause I was 13. For better or worse, I'm still pretty consistent with that trend.

    Guess I'm not going my part.

  87. Blame women by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    after all they control the only legal source .....

  88. Speculation by dcw3 · · Score: 2

    Didn't read the article, but here's my speculation on potential factors...

    Factor 1...With a higher percentage of women working, I'd bet they aren't feeling romantic as often after a day at the office.
    Factor 2...Less disposable income. The Great Recession caused a lot of financial strain, and likely many arguments among couples...more stress, less sex.
    Factor 3...Aging population.
    Factor 4...More self absorbed, or internet distracted population.

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  89. M$ Fault by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    In other news visual studio turns 20. Coincidence ... I think not.

  90. Sadly... by bobdehnhardt · · Score: 1

    ... I can personally attest to the accuracy of this headline.

  91. It's the economy, stupid! by micahraleigh · · Score: 1

    20 years ago the president and speak of the house were focused on the economy and "the end of welfare as we know it".

    Clinton was voted the 2nd best president of the 20th century in 1999 (only after Ronald Reagan), extending in some ways the Reagan administration.

    After 9/11 investors have been afraid about another terrorist attack plunging the markets, and it doesn't help that W and Obama have vastly expanded the government and regulatory powers.

    People don't have sex as much when it is harder to find money. Studies show out of work husbands have less sex than those with jobs. When the economy is bear skirt lengths increase (they vastly increased after the 29' crash).

  92. Well, maybe, it's dangerous? by sgt_doom · · Score: 1

    Just read an excellent book titled, Campus Rape Frenzy --- detailing all the false allegations brought against college dudes by college women, and how their lives were really screwed up or destroyed as a result. While we've been reading about it in the news, to see the actual stories and numbers is really shocking.

  93. cant be true by bobmajdakjr · · Score: 1

    all my friends are having kids now, so now i have no friends, cuz im still single and they dont have time for me. so this study is obviously bunk.

  94. 20 years ago I was 10 by LucasTétreault · · Score: 1

    I don't know about the rest of you... But I am having way more sex now than I was 20 years ago!

  95. See? Theis is what happens... by buss_error · · Score: 1

    This is what happens when LEO shuts down Craig's List and Backpage.

    Snark aside, I divorced over a decade ago and I have not met anyone in that time I would consider a serious relationship with. In part, I think it's just too much trouble for the drama. In part, as I age, I find that I am less willing to compromise and give the benefit of the doubt to my lady. These are key characteristics of a healthy relationship. The other part is that despite being the one that filed for a divorce (hey, it's complicated, all right?), I still consider my ex to have been my best friend and I'm simply not willing to settle for anything less in a new partner.

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  96. Bullshit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    We're all fucked.

  97. I call Bullshit by rsilvergun · · Score: 1
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    1. Re:I call Bullshit by bluefoxlucid · · Score: 1

      Graph.

      Source.

      Working hours invested in purchasing food have decreased dramatically. The average American household income was $4,200 in 1950, of which $1,400 went to food; in 2015, it was $54,000, of which $6,500 went to food. That's 2,000 working hours either way; it's 12,850% as many dollars income, but 4,640% as many dollars spent on food. The cost of a median household's food for a year in 1950 was 660 labor-hours; in 2015, it was 240. 240 is less than 660, so food is cheaper.

      Clothing, same way, 240 hours in 1950, 70 hours in 2015.

      Housing, average 983sqft new single-family in 1950, 28% of the budget including rent or mortgage, utilities, maintenance and supplies, and other operational costs; that's 570 hours worked per 1,000 square foot of housing afforded. 2005, a new single-family home was 2,300 average, 33% of the budget in total; that's 287 hours worked per 1,000 square foot of housing afforded. 287 is less than 570.

      Decade after decade, we spend fewer hours to purchase our food, our clothing, our basic personal care needs. We buy bigger houses, better cars, more and better healthcare, and a greater load of luxuries. The American work week was 90+ hours in 1900, with 40% of that going to just food for the home; by 1950, the work week was 40 hours, with 33% going to food--barely more than a third as many hours worked to feed the household.

      Everything gets cheaper. It's the only way it can happen. That's what technical progress does.

    2. Re:I call Bullshit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Everything gets cheaper. It's the only way it can happen. That's what technical progress does.

      Every THING. But not services. As a proportion of spending, services have increased because personal human interaction can't benefit from efficiency increases because its people interacting with people. The available money freed up from cheaper things has to go somewhere so we get inevitable price inflation in human services like healthcare, education, childcare, car/house maintenance, etc.

      Just sayin...

  98. Too Afraid by baker_tony · · Score: 1

    A terrorist might jump out of the vagina, or a hidden gun could go off in there!

  99. This is the reason by louzer · · Score: 1
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  100. Re:Not worth it. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I thought this sort of tripe didn't actually exist, and yet here it is...

  101. Re:Not worth it. by dougTheRug · · Score: 1

    I thought like that for years until a friend told me to get onto eharmony and I met my wife.