Now compare that "have had actual sex with another human" study with studies from places like OK Cupid where they found that:
- women overall got the most messages on dating sites
- the second decile of women got more than 50% of the attention (ie: the hottest women got a lot of messages but the "in my league" hot women got far more)
- most women got some attention (even just 1 message during the study)
- only the most attractive men got attention, but closer to the level of the least attractive women
- the most attractive men will "date down" to improve their chances of having sex on their terms
- women in general will "date up"
Informal study with ten invented people: http://jonmillward.com/blog/attraction-dating/cupid-on-trial...
OK Cupid has plenty of studies, but here's one that looks at who sends the first message (overwhelmingly men): https://theblog.okcupid.com/a-womans-advantage-82d5074dde2d (there's another study based on interracial relations, and it turns out that all women prefer white men).
Spreading STDs isn't about how much sex you have, it's whether the one person you had sex with had an STD. Given the extremely asymmetrical nature of the dating and hookup successes, it's highly likely that the one person you had sex with this month had sex with a lot more people than you.
It doesn't help that the news agencies are reporting "cure for AIDs" and nonsense like that, so people don't take STDs seriously — we basically have an anti-awareness campaign making people more cavalier about sexual health.
There's no real puzzle here, just lots of contributing factors.
Someone who only had sex once leaves a very different STI footprint than someone who have different partners every week, yet they will both be classified as "have ever had sex" in the study.
The share of Americans not having sex has reached a record high
% of 18-30 year olds reporting no sex in the past year
2008
Women: 8% Men: 10%
2018
Women: 18% Men: 28%
The rate of change is twice higher for men. I guess reality is misogynist by your definition of misogyny
Second, and more importantly: the GSS is an survey of 1,000 people. There were 396 people in this age range (https://gssdataexplorer.norc.org/variables/53/vshow) and 45% were men (https://gssdataexplorer.norc.org/variables/81/vshow). Seems safe to assume those variables are independent, so that's 178 men in the age range. You are hanging a sweeping claim that there's been a total upheaval in heterosexual sexual activity whereby a "large percentage of men are totally excluded from removed from the dating market" on literally 31 guys answering one question differently. The CDC studies linked above had tens of thousands of subjects.
https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/health-statisti...
40% of the adult US population is now obese, 70% is obese or overweight. Overweight people have a hard time dating, for those obese it is even tougher, and many give up hope. Men have a further problem: obesity is very strongly linked to diseases that have an impact on their ability to have an erection.
Please don't make up things like this. There's tons of well-researched data available from the CDC and NIH. None of it supports this misogynist conspiracy that men have stopped having sex.
> Regarding opposite-sex sexual behavior, 95.3% of women and 93.5% of men aged 18–44 had ever had any opposite-sex sexual contact.
There are pages of tables in this study alone: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhsr/nhsr088.pdf
Sexual activity is slowly declining across the board, and more in young women than young men:
> In 2011–2015, 42.4% of never-married female teenagers (4.0 million) and 44.2% of never-married male teenagers (4.4 million) had had sexual intercourse at least once by the time of the interview (were sexually experienced). These levels of sexual experience among teenagers are similar to those seen in 2002 and 2006–2010 data. Longer-term trends, from 1988 to 2011–2015, show declines in the percentage of teenagers who were sexually experienced.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhsr/nhsr104.pdf