The recession of sex: this is qualifying a group to the current situation in the United States based on a survey, according to which both married and unmarried couples who were probed say that they are having less sexual relations than in the past.
The previous year, according to this survey, 37% of the population between 18 and 64 years in the United States reported having had sex at least once a week, a figure less than 46% that said the same in 2010 and lower than the 55% that this reported in 1990.
The survey also shows that the number of young Americans who say they have not had any sex in the last year has been increasing in the last two decades, going from 12% of people between 18 and 29 who reported this situation to 24% by 2024.
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The group that compiled these data is the Institute for Family Studies (Institute for Family Studies, or IFS), which reviewed information collected by the Social General Survey, a survey carried out by the University of Chicago since the 1970s.
According to the IFS, these changes in the reported rate of sexual relations seem to be “that there are fewer people paired or married and that couples also have sex less frequently.”
IFS is promoted as an organization “dedicated to strengthening marriage and family life.” Some specialists have questioned her for her conservative bias, after some of her researchers participated in denial analysis on issues such as homosexuality.
The group did not indicate whether the data of surrounding people about whether they have sex include gay couples or with diverse sexual orientations.
Another of the reasons that the IFS gives to try to explain this phenomenon is that young people in the United States report to be increasingly isolated, since other surveys indicate that the average hours that someone says they spend with friends have fallen from 12 in 2005 to only five hours last year.
“Spending more time in front of cell phones, social networks, the proliferation of digital pornography and video games has meant that young adults have less opportunities to develop the necessary socialization tools to form relationships, and that they spend less time in social situations such as parties that would facilitate matched,” says the IFS.
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The group highlights in its report on these data that “the recession of sex should worry about Americans as much as” other possible recessions, amid concerns about the cost of food, the impact of tariffs imposed by Donald Trump’s government and the lack of labor in many industries.
With EFE information
