The Sex Recession.
Sex has been declining since the late 90s.
We are living through the first sustained decline in sexual activity across generations in modern recorded history.
Sex has not become less important.
It has become harder to initiate, harder to sustain,
and easier to avoid. Now, what looks like disinterest
is more often exhaustion, hesitation, or friction.
By 2030, the effects don’t stay in the bedroom.
Rise In Sexlessness
More adults report having no sex at all. Share of adults reporting zero sexual partners in the past year has increased significantly since the late 1990s.
Always Connected, Rarely Together.
The Most Communicative Generation on Record Is Also the Least Intimate
Always Connected,Rarely Together.
The Most Communicative Generation on Record Is Also the Least Intimate
A system can save us
The decline in sex and intimacy doesn’t signal a loss of desire.
Sex hasn't disappeared.
But, the conditions that enable it have eroded.
Young adults spend more time tracking, measuring, and improving themselves than any generation before them.
The sex recession isn't inevitable.
It is structural.
And structures can be rebuilt.
