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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.
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.
Perhaps a correlation with the rising obesity rate?
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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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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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...
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).
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He hates the fags and he hates the godless. Of both of them there are too many.
Then why does He keep making them?
If it weren't for deadlines, nothing would be late.
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.
They don't need fapping lotion in places where men have normal (non-mutilated) dicks.
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).
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.
~ People that think they are better than anyone else for any reason are the cause of all the strife in the world.
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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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.
We suffer more in our imagination than in reality. - Seneca
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.
The Unicode standard is over 20 years old. Why does Slashdot not support it?
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!
When there are no more second chances, people stop taking the first chance.
If I have been able to see further than others, it is because I bought a pair of binoculars.