NO ONE’S HAVING SEX

According to a new study, the share of U.S. adults reporting no sex reached an all-time high in 2018.
– 23 percent of adults — nearly 1 in 4 — who weren’t gettin’ any are twentysomething men, according to the latest data from the General Social Survey. Jean Twenge, professor of psychology at San Diego State University and author of the study believes that growing sexlessness among America’s twentysomethings is primarily attributable to partnering up later in life. They’re living alone and, despite what romantic comedies claim, aren’t having an active sex life.
– One of the factors driving the Great American Sex Drought is demographics: The 60 and older demographic climbed from 18 percent of the population in 1996 to 26 percent in 2018, and because that age group is growing relative to everyone else, it has the net effect of reducing the overall population’s likelihood of having sex. (* Thanks, grampa.)
– One final factor that may be affecting Americans’ sexual habits at all ages is technology. “There are a lot more things to do at 10 o’clock at night now than there were 20 years ago,” Twenge said. “Streaming video, social media, console games, everything else.”
* Nobody asked me to take this survey. I bet I could have really “swung the poll.” As it were.
* But I’m not telling you which way.
* Finally, no one’s having sex. This is the Religious Right’s wet dream. So to speak.
* I bet the number would be a lot different if they’d waited to take the survey until after the NCAA finals.
* You know who they didn’t ask in this survey who could have turned it around? Your mom.