Why Nobody is Having Sex Anymore (& why it matters) - Dr Debra Soh - #1072

Is people having less sex a big deal? It is a big deal. Well, ask anyone who's not having sex if it's a big deal. I think they'll tell you, yeah, it is a problem. Especially considering that it is young men who are typically in the their prime and at the peak of their sexual drive.

So not only is it, I think, quite frustrating for them, but also when you're in a situation like that where you're struggling and it's not just about the sex, it's also about the connection and the emotional intimacy and the larger feeling of connectedness and community. So um sextinction is very much about the sex recession and the fact that young people, millennials and gen Z in particular, are having less sex than previous generations. And I was skeptical at first. I thought that this talk about the sex recession and sexlessness was overblown.

But after I sat down, I got a chance to go through the data myself, look at the media reportage, talk to people. And we see consistently with multiple data sets that one in three men and one in five women have not had sex in the past 12 months, which is a large number of people. And so I was interested with this book, what is taking the place of sex? And what what does that say about where we're headed in the future? How different is modern

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