You're listening to the micro version of the Savage Lovecast at Savage. Love.

If you're stuck in a relationship quandary, or if you're looking for sexual harmony,

well, there's nothing you can't ask on the Savage Lovecast.

I guess I've failed.

According to a story in The Guardian, fewer people these days are having sex.

There's a steep rise in what Guardian feature writer, I mean, Sainer, calls the voluntarily

celibate.

People who've had sex and maybe could have sex again, but can't be arced, as the Brits

would say, to have sex now or ever again possibly.

Sainer cites the National Survey of Sexual Health and Behavior in the United States,

which found a steep rise in young people, adolescents, who reported no sexual activity at all,

partnered or alone, 28.8% to 44.2% of young men and from 49.5 to 74% of young women.

That's a lot of young people, particularly guys who aren't jerking off or not willing to admit

they're even jerking off. It's also an enormous range, those percentages, somewhere between

28.8 and 44.2% of young men and 49.5 and 74% of young women that spread. Those spreads kind of makes you doubt the data.

But let's take it at face value.

Quoting from Sainer's piece in The Guardian,

the studies author raised several possible contributing factors,

including gaming and social media,

taking time and precedence,

more awareness of asexuality as an identity,

a decline in alcohol use, and an

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