Americans are having a record low amount of sex, even less than they did during COVID.

Just 37% of American adults have sex weekly down from 55% in 1990.

Does this counter the view that sex is becoming more casually accepted than ever before?

Who goes first?

Do you want to go first?

I think I glanced at these statistics and what I thought was interesting and sort of

haven't really had a chance to borrow into is how does it split between the long-term

partnered and the casually and the unpartnered?

Yeah.

Because that's been generally the, that's where the commentary gets interesting.

And people have often, you know, the conservative side will say, no, actually, the not getting, they're not getting any is very much the people who are not married.

And actually the married are getting any.

And if I remember rightly, the recent headlines are actually the people who are not who are married are also becoming more panda-like.

Sex recessions happening across the board.

Yeah, yeah. It's happening across the broad. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So I think that the paradox where people are simultaneously having less sex and apparently being at least more permissive towards casual sex, whether or not they're having lots of it, I think is solved by that marriage issue. So if people are less likely to be in long-term partnerships and people in long-term partnerships have more sex. So there's a, I think there's a model that works where, say, Gen Z are having casual sex, but they're only having casual sex.

So, like, one hookup a year, for instance, works out as very little sex.

But it's also not to say that casual sex culture doesn't exist.

So you're able to have both of these things happening at the same time.

And they might actually be causing each other.

Yeah.

But I also think it's plausible that even married people might be having less sex.

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