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My guest today is Dr. Deborah So, a neuroscientist who specializes in human sexuality and biological

explanations for behavior. As a journalist, she writes about technology, internet subcultures,

health, and the politicization of science. Her writing has appeared in Harper's Magazine,

The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, The Globe and Mail, and many other publications.

Her first book, The End of Gender, has been translated into six languages and was featured in the Daily Wire film What is a Woman?

Her new book is Sex Stinction, The Decline of Sex and the Future of Intimacy.

So nice to have you on, Deborah.

Thank you so much for having me.

Longtime fan of yours, and I've always enjoyed

how you make scientific concepts understandable, I feel like, to regular non-sciencey people. I feel like

me, what's going on that people aren't having sex anymore? Well, thanks so much for your kind

words, and I've been a huge fan of yours

as well. So I'm very excited to get to speak with you. So with Sex St. St. St. my latest book, I was

curious to see whether this concept of the sex recession is real, because I'd been hearing a lot

about how people were not having as much sex as previously. And at the time, I thought this was

overblown and that people

were just creating a moral panic out of nothing. There was a study that came out in 2016 that

showed that Americans were having less sex than ever before. And this was the case for everyone,

all age cohorts, didn't matter if you were married or single. But what was most interesting

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