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  1. Married adults have markedly more sex than their unmarried peers, but the sex recession is also making inroads among married couples.
  2. When it comes to sexlessness (“no sex in the last year”) among young adults, the biggest change comes post-2010.
  3. Between 2010 and 2019, the average time young adults spent with friends in a given week fell by nearly 50%, from 12.8 hours to just 6.5 hours.

Source: Institute for Family Studies.

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[–] Brutticus@midwest.social 11 points 1 week ago

honestly? I don't have the time. My last two partners got fed up because I couldn't keep up with their expectations. I either working or exhausted from work. I liked having sex and they really wanted me back, but carving time and attention to give got to be too much for me.

[–] EstraDoll@hexbear.net 9 points 2 weeks ago

i'm fucking trying, okay 😭

[–] Shaper@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The largest uptick happens right after the 2008 crisis. Hmm I wonder if we can infer a relation between workload and leisure from this.

[–] lunarul@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

That socializing with friends graphs is weird. The drop from 2018 to 2019 is steeper than the drop from 2019 to 2020, when the lockdowns happened.

[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago

obviously I can only speak anecdotally for myself, but when lockdowns happened I found that my group made an effort to socialize more online

however in the past few years my own online socialization has dropped more. schedules didn't line up, people lost interest in the same video games, etc. I got a little busier with hobbies and sports, at the expense of time to socialize

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[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Statistically, you should try to date married women instead of married men (when you visit the US, I mean if your plane ever crashes there).

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Hey, it's nice to be ahead of the curve for once. Just... I wish it was in regards to a different subject.

[–] Bosht@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Of all the garbage going on this really is a footnote and not worthy of focus. Maybe people less sex if under extreme stress. Maybe knowing they can't afford a kid makes them have less sex. Maybe more general acceptance of masturbation and the decrease of religion has made people less dependent on sex for release. Overall, doesn't matter. Not something important compared to the planet lighting on fire, fascism rising, etc.

[–] joel_feila@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Maybe if people were having more there would be less fascism. No really this metric is useful for tracking over economic stability and a few other things.

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[–] Cocopanda@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

I would have sex but I have to care for my elderly parents. So it’s really difficult to entice sexy time when an obese woman who is barely mobile, will greet you at the front door in her lounge chair. It’s so embarrassing. I just set up hook ups at motels.

[–] Jode@midwest.social 6 points 1 week ago

Sex recession, also good band name.

[–] Tetragrade@leminal.space 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

does this surprise anyone?

not only are we living in a neoliberal world where having sex is "objectifying" and therefore vile (while employment is conveniently not classified as such), there's also an erasure of third spaces where you could even meet other people (outside of work) so if you wanna satisfy your desire for basic human contact, you can only meet people at the workplace, where it is legally forbidden to flirt or make sexual advances.

again, does this surprise anyone?

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Regular sex is boring.

I only do the freaky sex now.

[–] Pro@mander.xyz 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Your hand does not count as freaky sex.....

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

It does when it's the hand I lost to a freaky sex accident. 😌

I pretend it's Thing from The Addams Family.

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