Why Record Amounts Of Young People Are Saying No To Marriage AND Sex | Dr. Debra Soh, PhD
Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark
Turning Point USA
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🗓️ 3 March 2026
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
More young people are opting out of marriage — and even sex — than any generation before them.
Dr. Debra Soh, neuroscientist and author of Sextinction, joins me to talk about the quiet collapse no one wants to admit is happening. The women who are having sex say roughness and blurred lines between consent and coercion have become “normal,” while Gen Z calls it empowerment after growing up on pornography. Meanwhile, testosterone is tanking, antidepressant use is soaring, and half of young adults say they probably won’t have kids.
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| 0:00.0 | What is going on with choking in sex? |
| 0:02.4 | Millennial women would say, I don't like this. |
| 0:04.8 | I don't know what's going on. |
| 0:05.8 | What we see with Gen Z women is that they'll experience the same things, but they're more inclined to say that they like it. Or they will ask a male partner to actually do it. They'll initiate it themselves. Why are Gen Z women more likely to say they like it? because they grew up watching porn from a very young age, |
| 0:18.9 | or they were exposed to porn at such a young age. |
| 0:20.9 | What do you say to the 25-year-old man |
| 0:22.6 | who feels demoralized and behind? Don't let that derail you. Put your head down and keep working. What's your alternative? If you're going to sit there and play video games and vape all day long, that will be your life in 20, 30 years. And I think the only thing worse then being where you are now is being in the exact same place 20, 30 years from now. Not only are more young people opting out of marriage than any generation before them, they're opting out of sex. |
| 1:08.0 | And the ones who are having sex? |
| 1:09.7 | A disturbing number of young women report |
| 1:11.5 | that it includes choking, roughness, blurred lines between consensual and coercive. |
| 1:16.6 | Millennial women say they didn't sign up for violence. It just became normal. Gen Z says |
| 1:22.0 | it's consensual, but only after growing up on unlimited high-speed pornography. Meanwhile, young men's testosterone is declining. |
| 1:30.3 | Sperm counts are dropping. |
| 1:31.3 | One in five college students is on antidepressants. |
| 1:34.3 | Half of young adults say they probably won't have kids, |
| 1:37.3 | and fertility clinics are marketing egg freezing like it's a Black Friday sale. |
| 1:40.3 | So the question isn't just why aren't people getting married. |
| 1:43.3 | It's, are we living through |
| 1:45.3 | the first generation in modern history that is biologically and psychologically less interested |
| 1:50.7 | in sex? And if so, why? Today I'm joined by Dr. Deborah So, neuroscientist and author |
| 1:57.1 | of Sex Stinction, The Decline of Sex and the Future of Intimacy. Dr. So specializes |
| 2:02.1 | in human sexuality and the biological drivers of behavior. She earned her PhD from York University, |
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