Why Nobody is Having Sex Anymore (& why it matters) - Dr Debra Soh - #1072
Modern Wisdom
Chris Williamson
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🗓️ 16 March 2026
⏱️ 127 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Is people having less sex a big deal? |
| 0:02.4 | It is a big deal. |
| 0:04.0 | Well, ask anyone who's not having sex if it's a big deal. |
| 0:06.2 | I think they'll tell you, yeah, it is a problem. |
| 0:08.2 | Especially considering that it is young men who are typically in their prime and at the peak of their |
| 0:15.1 | sexual drive. |
| 0:16.9 | So not only is it, I think, quite frustrating for them, but also when you're in a situation like that where you're struggling, and it's not just about the sex, it's also about the connection and the emotional intimacy and the larger feeling of connectedness and community. |
| 0:31.1 | So sex extinction is very much about the sex recession and the fact that young people, millennials and |
| 0:37.5 | Gen Z in particular, are having less sex than previous generations. And I was skeptical at first. |
| 0:43.6 | I thought that this talk about the sex recession and sexlessness was overblown. But after I sat |
| 0:48.9 | down, I got a chance to go through the data myself, look at the media reportage, talk to people. |
| 0:55.9 | And we see consistently with multiple data sets that one in three men and one in five women have not had sex in the past |
| 1:01.1 | 12 months, which is a large number of people. And so I was interested with this book, what is taking |
| 1:07.7 | the place of sex? And what does that say about where we're headed in the future? |
| 1:14.2 | How different is modern sexual activity to what we understand about the past? |
| 1:20.9 | Well, in terms of, say, the outlets that we have available. |
| 1:23.2 | So one question has been, is sex really on the decline or is that other outlets are taking |
| 1:27.9 | the place like porn, Muslim masturbation, things like OnlyFans or now AI companion? |
| 1:32.9 | So each of these subjects have a different chapter in the book to themselves and in myself |
| 1:36.7 | explaining, trying to understand what the trend is about, is it convincing, I test them |
| 1:42.2 | out myself, which was a lot of fun in many cases, |
| 1:44.6 | going through the scientific research in terms of what we do know about these technologies, |
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