We Are In The Middle Of The Great (Sex) Resignation
Why are people less interested in sexual activity than ever before?
Over the last six months, the media has been obsessed with the ‘Great Resignation’ — people quitting their jobs.
But there is a bigger and perhaps even more important trend growing for a long time now.
The Great Sex Resignation.
People are having less sex than ever before.
Teenagers are losing their virginity at a later age. Gen Xers and Baby Boomers are having less sex. Not having a suitable sex partner isn't an excuse, as there is even less masturbation than before.
I need to put the next sentence in all caps as I was shocked when I read it.
ADOLESCENT MASTURBATION IS DECLINING!
If any group was going to keep the orgasms flowing, I thought it would be teenage boys, but even they are turning to other activities.
Different studies in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany point to the same thing.
We aren’t as interested in sexual activity as we used to be.
The alarming data
Several different studies all show the same alarming trend. Bear with me as I share some depressing statistics.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Youth Risk Behavior Survey was conducted from 1991 to 2015. It found that the percentage of high-school students who’d had intercourse dropped from 54 to 40 percent over that period.
To put that into perspective, over the course of one generation, sex has gone from something most high-school students have experienced to something that most have not.
Debby Herbenick, an Indiana University psychologist, published a study in the Archives of Sexual Behavior in November 2021. She found that between 2009 and 2018, the proportion of adolescents reporting no sexual activity, either alone or with partners, increased from 28.8 percent to 44.2 percent among young men and from 49.5 percent to 74 percent among young women.
All forms of partnered sexual activity, including penile-vaginal intercourse, anal sex, and partnered masturbation, decreased.
No sex and no masturbation. Three-quarters of adolescent females report zero sexual activity.
What are young people doing?