Couples are having less sex, study finds

Re:Couples are having less sex, study finds by coldtea on Thursday May 09, 2019 @01:49PM (#19870452)

>I do have to smirk slightly, since a common complaint that I hear from people critical of millennials is that "everything is about sex these days!" as some sort of thinly-veiled way of dismissing people of a certain age group, when the facts seem to indicate that that simply isn't the case.

Actually, it can very well be that "everything is about sex" for a group of people, precisely when that group of people have less sex than ever.

(Overcompensation and all that).

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Re:Couples are having less sex, study finds by Bartweiss on Thursday May 09, 2019 @03:57PM (#19871748)

There are a bunch of studies over the last decade or so finding that teens (i.e. teens to ~28 year olds today) have shifted the balance of their social interactions away from in-person contact to online communication.

If the same thing goes for sexual topics, that would quite neatly explain this pair of interactions. Debating sex on social media or posting adult content online is publicly visible, hence "people are sexualizing everything these days!", but it's plausibly also an replacement outlet for what isn't happening in person.

(The other, simpler, take is that online accessibility just means we see an increasing amount of everything, even if the number of people involved is declining.)

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