E312: Relationship Expert: Men Want Traditional Marriage, But Women Want This w/Mark Regnerus | Lila Rose Show
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🗓️ 24 April 2026
⏱️ 94 minutes
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Summary
People are having less sex than ever, both inside and outside of marriage. What does this tell us about the state of dating, marriage, and relationships? How can we understand the marriage market after decades of ubiquitous birth control? Today we answer these and more with Mark Regnerus, professor at UT-Austin and President of the Austin Institute.
Mark’s website: https://www.markregnerus.com/
Austin Institute: https://www.austin-institute.org
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| 0:00.0 | As of 2025, 24% of young people reported not having sex in the last year, which is a 100% increase from 2010. |
| 0:08.7 | Why do you think this is? |
| 0:09.7 | Premarital sex is going down, but marital sex is going down too, but it's all traceable. |
| 0:14.0 | You've gotten in hot water in your career for some of the research that you've done. |
| 0:17.5 | The pill is the thing that really splits the mating market into a |
| 0:21.4 | marriage corner of the market, a sex corner of the market. And in this middle ground, it's the market |
| 0:26.4 | in longer term relationships of unclear duration and future. What are we talking about in terms of the |
| 0:33.3 | benefits of people who say, I'm going to wait until a marriage to have sex with you? |
| 0:36.6 | That variable, the number of premarital partners, remains the best predictor of you leaving your marriage. Both the men and the women are complaining of this. They cannot find a spouse. Now, there are spouses out there to be found. So what's the problem? Two things. One is. Mark Regneris, welcome to the podcast. |
| 0:54.9 | Thanks, Lila. |
| 0:55.7 | Good to see you again. |
| 0:56.5 | Great to see you again. |
| 0:57.4 | We were just talking and spent, I don't know, seven or eight years since that fateful |
| 1:01.3 | conversation where I was like, this guy's research is absolutely essential for the future |
| 1:05.4 | of American humanity and probably global humanity. |
| 1:08.9 | So thank you for your work. |
| 1:10.1 | Happy to do it. |
| 1:12.3 | As of 2025, |
| 1:21.6 | 24% of young people reported not having sex in the last year, which is a 100% increase from 2010. |
| 1:30.7 | Why do you think this is? That's a good question. I think it has to do with our retreat into a digital world. The kinds of affirmation human beings seek from a loved one are being replaced by social affirmations, |
| 1:44.5 | such that it even kind of curbs the sort of generally natural flow of desire |
| 1:55.4 | towards another human being. |
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