Savage Love Episode 543
Savage Lovecast
Dan Savage
4.6 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 21 March 2017
⏱️ 51 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the micro version of the Savage Lovecast, www.com. |
| 0:06.4 | If you're stuck in a relationship quandary, or if you're looking for sexual harmony, |
| 0:13.6 | well, there's nothing you can't pass on the Savage Lovecast. |
| 0:24.6 | So we're all about to learn the difference between colluding and coordinating. |
| 0:29.8 | Basically yesterday, we learned the first hearings into the Russia-Trump campaign connections from James Comey that the president of the United States |
| 0:39.2 | is basically under an espionage investigation for colluding or coordinating with the Russians. |
| 0:45.3 | This is going to get really fucking interesting. |
| 0:47.3 | But you know, we're not going to talk about this and we're not going to talk about Donald Trump |
| 0:50.0 | at the top of today's show. |
| 0:51.4 | This is a sex and relationship advice podcast and for a lovely and delightful change of pace. You know what we're going to talk about at the top of today's show. This is a sex and relationship advice podcast and for a lovely |
| 0:55.0 | and delightful change of pace. You know what we're going to talk about at the top of today's show? |
| 0:58.3 | We're going to talk about sex. Just to prove that we still can talk about sex. But talking about |
| 1:04.4 | sex seems to be all some of us are doing about sex anymore. New study came out a couple of weeks ago |
| 1:09.9 | that blew up the New York Times |
| 1:11.9 | and made a lot of headlines documenting a decline in sexual frequency among American adults |
| 1:17.2 | 1989 to 2014. We are having all of us less sex now, it seems, than we were a couple of decades |
| 1:25.7 | ago. From the study, which you can read at the archives of sexual behavior, American adults |
| 1:30.1 | had sex about nine fewer times per year in early 2010s compared to the late 1990s |
| 1:36.6 | in data from the nationally representative general social survey. |
| 1:40.1 | This was partially due to the higher percentage of unpartnered individuals. |
| 1:44.3 | Married people, partnered people tend to have sex more often, but also they found that people with partners were having less sex than they used to. |
| 1:53.2 | Cue the hand-wringing and finger pointing at some of the usual suspects. |
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