Hi and welcome back to the Carol Markowitz show on the Clay Travis and Buck

Sex & Podcast Network on iHeartRadio. I think after the last few days we need a

palette cleanser. So let's talk about sex. People aren't having it. Study after

study shows a downward trend in the number of people having sex. One study in

2021 showed 26% of adult Americans hadn't had sex in the last year. A large

study from 2000 to 2018 showed an increasing number of people 18 to 34 reported

having no sex or far less frequent sex than in years prior. Nearly 40% of young

adults surveyed in California in 2021 had no sexual partners in the prior year

at all. I know California is weird but still. I feel like in the 1980s and

maybe 90s sex was very much in and now it feels out all of the comedies of

that age put sex front and center for example. I'm not saying bring back the

gratuitous nudity of the movies of the 1980s but it's almost like sex has

become passe. I'm going to talk about our declining birth rates in later

episodes but that's not what I mean here. I literally mean people are not having

sex and this is having a serious negative impact on our society. In November of

2021 I wrote a piece for the Spectator magazine called Life After Sex. The

pandemic was obviously pretty unsexy. I wrote quote life could not have been less

sexily. The neighborhood busy body calling the police on your backyard party

half of everyone's face covered by a mask. Everyone drinking too much staying in

their pajamas all day and putting on the quarantine 15 and quote but it wasn't

just that. We've been going through some pretty significant societal changes. I

wrote quote social changes are also wretcheding down the sexy. 57 genders only

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