138. Why is Everyone Having Less Sex?

No Stupid Questions

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🗓️ 19 March 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Are we too busy watching Friends? Is porn driving us apart? And why did New Yorkers stop vacationing in the Catskills? Take the Seven Deadly Sins survey: freakonomics.com/nsq-sins/

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0:00.0	We're animals.
0:03.3	Haven't you ever heard of Darwin?
0:04.6	I'm Antelope Duckworth.
0:07.0	I'm Stephen Dubner.
0:08.0	And you're listening to no stupid questions.
0:11.5	Today on the show, why are we having less sex than we used to?
0:15.5	I think even masturbation is down.
0:17.3	I don't have a number of Indians, sorry.
0:20.3	So, Angelo, this is the third episode
0:29.2	of our Seven Deadly Sins series.
0:32.8	We're approaching the so-called sins in the order we chose, not the way the Catholic Church
0:39.1	listed them.
0:40.1	We started with Slauth, then we solved gluttony, and now it's time for everyone's favorite
0:46.0	of the Seven Deadly Sins, which is lust.
0:48.5	It is a favorite.
0:49.7	I've read in a variety of sources that in the US, but many, many other countries as well,
0:56.0	people are just having less sex.
0:58.1	Period.
0:59.1	And I'm curious why you think that is based on your knowledge of the psychological research,
1:06.7	based on this project you are working on now, this new book about self-control.
1:12.8	And I'm especially curious whether you think the decline in sex may be due to the easier
1:18.4	availability of substitutes for sex, including pornography, or whether maybe something totally
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