The Performative Male Epidemic - Louise Perry & Mary Harrington - #1021

Americans are having a record low amount of sex, even less than they did during COVID. Just 37% of American adults have sex weekly, down from 55% in 1990. Does this counter the view that sex is becoming more casually accepted than ever before? Are you guys first? Uh

Do you want to go first? I think I I glanced at these statistics and I and what I what I thought was interesting and sort of haven't really had a chance to burrow into is how does it split between the long-term partnered and the casually and the unpartnered. Yeah. Because that's that's been generally the the that's where the commentary gets interesting and people have often uh the the The the conservative side will say, no, actually, the the the not getting the not getting any is is very much the people who are not married.

And actually the the the married are getting any. And if I remember rightly, the recent headlines were actually the people who are not who are married are also um pan becoming more panda-like. Sex recessions happening across the world. Yeah, it's happening across the. Relationship uh agnostic.

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