America's Sex Recession

Honestly with Bari Weiss

The Free Press

Society & Culture, News

4.6 • 7.8K Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2021

⏱️ 63 minutes

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A recent study from the American Medical Association found that one-third of men between the ages of 18 to 24 reported having no sex at all in the previous year — and that was before the COVID lockdowns. Meantime, the marriage rate and the birth rate are both at historic lows. What’s at a historic high is online porn. In 2019, more than five billion hours of porn were watched on Pornhub alone. That’s 500 thousand years worth of time. My guest today has been at the forefront of this change. Meet Aella. She has been doing sex work online and in real life for the past decade and she’s now killing on a platform called OnlyFans, where she charges for her followers for her explicit content. It’s like Substack. Sort of. Whatever preconceptions you have about porn stars I assure you she will challenge them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Sometimes you can feel a vibration in Orkney. It takes over the whole island.
0:06.0	Based on the memoir by Amy Lipprot's, critics are calling the Outrun a masterpiece.
0:11.0	I miss it. I miss how good it made me feel.
0:16.7	Sasha Ronan gives a magnificent performance.
0:19.8	The waves roll into the shore in time with my beating heart.
0:24.4	The Outrun in cinema September 27th.
0:28.7	Book tickets now. I'm Barry Weiss. This is honestly. And for today, today,
0:43.0	Yeah, yeah, yeah,
0:46.0	Let's talk about sex.
0:48.0	Sex.
0:50.0	Or more specifically, what is the state of America's sex life?
0:55.0	Oh God.
0:58.0	For all of human history up until about five seconds ago,
1:02.0	the stakes of having sex, especially if you're a woman,
1:05.2	just couldn't have been higher. It could very well mean bringing shame on your family,
1:09.2	could mean ostracism from your community, it could mean disease and of course pregnancy. It was a very high-risk
1:16.4	decision. But now for many women, especially if you live in America, there's not just
1:21.6	the pill, there's IUDs where you don't even ever have to get your
1:24.4	period. There's no fault divorce, there's easier and more affordable access to abortion.
1:29.1	There's just far less stigma attached to sex outside marriage in a country where 40% of babies are
1:35.7	born out of wedlock.
1:37.5	And our culture is drenched in words like sex positive, body positive, gender positive.
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