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Why Americans are having less sex


               
2017 Jul 19, 8:28am   20,091 views  82 comments

by zzyzzx   follow (9)  

http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/19/health/americans-less-sex-kerner/index.html

According to a recent study published in the Archives of Sexual Behavior, a large general social survey found that American adults had sex about nine fewer times per year in the early 2010s than they did in the late 1990s, a decline that wasn't explained by longer work hours or increased use of pornography.

"A lot of parents feel like they've already done about 50 things they didn't want to do that day, like getting up at dawn, dealing with their child's tantrums. Adding sex to the menu just seems like too much," said Samantha Lutz, a psychologist. "So we turn to things like Netflix to unwind, which leads to immediate gratification with zero energy expended."

Parents also seem to be much more involved with their children's lives than in the past. "Parents are constantly driving their children to school and extracurricular activities," said Amanda Pasciucco, a licensed marriage and family therapist. In previous years, children had more freedom and fewer organized activities, which meant more free time for their parents.

Eric Marlowe Garrison, a certified sexuality counselor, agreed. "We're seeing more helicopter parenting, which is zapping energy that could go toward sex and other sensual activities."

But has the marriage advantage become a disadvantage?

We don't know if indeed the 'marriage advantage' is now a 'disadvantage,' " said Debby Herbenick, president of the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists, "in part because so many other things have changed about sex and health in America in recent decades, including far more Americans taking medications with sexual side effects, far more Americans dealing with chronic health conditions -- like diabetes -- known to affect sex, and millions more Americans surviving cancer -- which is wonderful -- but often with sexual side effects from cancer treatments. An important question for future research would be, all else being equal (including health status), how does marital status relate to people's sex lives?"

#sex

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1   zzyzzx   2017 Jul 19, 8:28am  

Article is more of an advertisement about not having kids than anything else. But I already knew that having kids ruins your sex life, it's on my long list of reasons not to have kids.

2   Dan8267   2017 Jul 19, 8:34am  

zzyzzx says

Why Americans are having less sex

3   Dan8267   2017 Jul 19, 8:41am  

zzyzzx says

Article is more of an advertisement about not having kids than anything else. But I already knew that having kids ruins your sex life, it's on my long list of reasons not to have kids.

The article is wrong about kids being the cause of diminishing sex lives. A hundred years ago people had their first child between the ages of 16 and 22. Today it's 30 to 35. People in their 20s are far less likely to have a child today than at any other time in history. And the 20s are the prime sexual years. So clearly the burden of having children is not the cause.

Nor is Tinder the cause since the vast majority of Americans have never used it, and most that have used it only tried it for a short time and then moved on just like with all other apps.

4   FortWayne   2017 Jul 19, 8:45am  

High taxes and liberal policies have consequences

5   Y   2017 Jul 19, 8:51am  

Libbies 57 flavors of queer have most people scared of dating anybody. You just don't know whats arriving on your doorstep.

FortWayne says

High taxes and liberal policies have consequences

6   Y   2017 Jul 19, 8:55am  

Eventually having kids will be like purchasing pot you will have your 57 verified brands of sexual orientation for artificial insemination. To choose from

7   Patrick   2017 Jul 19, 8:57am  

It's because of feminism.

Women want men to deny feminist demands for self-castration. Women want dominant unapologetic men who will not put up with feminist bullshit. Hell, they'd much rather fuck a serial murderer than a sensitive new-age guy.

Men are failing to give the right answer to feminism, and so women just are not attracted to them anymore.

But also, yes, men are not attracted to fat women and women are getting really fat. That's not cultural. It's because fat women are ugly.

8   anonymous   2017 Jul 19, 8:58am  

FortWayne says

High taxes and liberal policies have consequences

Lol

Conservatism is very conducive to healthy sexuality lmao

9   Strategist   2017 Jul 19, 9:02am  

Dan8267 says

I wonder what caused the obesity rates to trend for the worse after 1980. Just look at that slope.

10   Strategist   2017 Jul 19, 9:06am  

rando says

But also, yes, men are not attracted to fat women and women are getting really fat. That's not cultural. It's because fat women are ugly.

ha ha ha
Men prefer quality, not quantity.
Do you know men have actually suffocated to death when a fat woman sat on their face while having sex?

11   anonymous   2017 Jul 19, 9:08am  

I don't get how people operate without the release. I'm like the hydrogen bomb from Lost if you don't drain me 4 8 15 16 23 42 times a day, the whole world implodes

Belly full, balls empty makes for a happy life. Everything else is manageable so long as these demands are met

12   anonymous   2017 Jul 19, 9:10am  

Strategist says

Dan8267 says

I wonder what caused the obesity rates to trend for the worse after 1980. Just look at that slope.

13   Goran_K   2017 Jul 19, 9:11am  

All the hipster SJWs women I see when I travel to places like San Francisco or New York are either extremely obese, look like skinny men, or look cute but smell like trash. Feminism is cancer.

14   zzyzzx   2017 Jul 19, 9:19am  

errc says

Obligatory:

15   zzyzzx   2017 Jul 19, 9:24am  

Strategist says

I wonder what caused the obesity rates to trend for the worse after 1980. Just look at that slope.

https://authoritynutrition.com/12-graphs-that-show-why-people-get-fat/

http://www.businessinsider.com/obesity-rates-rising-food-environment-2017-6

I could blame a lot of things for our collective obesity. Sedimentary lifestyle being my #1 choice, followed by die (the whole eating out too much thing too)t. Plus a lot of the little things add up. People used to use a regular screwdriver, crank windows by hand, take stairs, or walk places. Now if you see someone out walking, it's because their dog needs to take a dump.

16   Dan8267   2017 Jul 19, 10:31am  

FortWayne says

High taxes and liberal policies have consequences

This is utter bullshit. People aren't having less sex or fewer children because of taxes. They are having fewer children because republican policies, particularly those from Ronald Reagan, have squeezed the middle class making supporting a family way the fuck harder.

In the 1950s, a time when taxes where way the fuck higher, a single income family could afford a primary home and a vacation home and eating out several times a week. Today it takes two incomes just to make ends meet, and that's without owning a second home. The difference is supply-side economics which devastated the middle class. You hero Reagan is the reason why people cannot afford to raise families anymore.

17   Dan8267   2017 Jul 19, 10:35am  

BlueSardine says

Libbies 57 flavors of queer have most people scared of dating anybody.

Dating? Obviously you haven't been with a woman in a long, long time. Dating died in the 1990s. It's been the hookup culture ever since.

Today people have sex with friends and friends of friends without ever going out on dates or calling each other boyfriend/girlfriend. You hang out with people of your preferred gender and then "let things happen". This is the way it's been for 25 years. No one under 35 dates. Dates are for people looking for marriage, not for sex.

18   Dan8267   2017 Jul 19, 10:36am  

zzyzzx says

Ewww, who would want to eat a slug?

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