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Stunning chart: the share of men under 30 who aren't having sex has nearly tripled in the past decade washingtonpost.com/business/2019/… 
Those numbers are helping drive a big shift in American sex-having habits: the number not getting laid is at a record high. Conversely, the number reporting sex weekly or more is on the decline. washingtonpost.com/business/2019/…
Glad you asked!
1. Young male labor force participation has fallen. Less work = less relationships = less sex
2. Alongside that, men in that age group are more likely than women to live with their parents which presents... obvious barriers to having sex.
1. Young male labor force participation has fallen. Less work = less relationships = less sex
2. Alongside that, men in that age group are more likely than women to live with their parents which presents... obvious barriers to having sex.
There also *might* be a #MeToo effect considering the drastic rise in 2018. But that's pretty speculative at this point, and the expert I talked to for this story noted that the rise in young men's celibacy was well underway prior to 2018. washingtonpost.com/business/2019/…
I see a lot of jokes along these lines BUT: married people are way more likely to have sex. For instance only 11 percent of the married didn't have sex last year, compared to 34 percent of the unmarried
Final datapoint: the share of young men reporting no female sex partners since they turned 18 -- a rough a proxy for virginity -- more than tripled since 2008. I say rough proxy bc 1) some had sex in their teens and 2) some exclusively have male partners.
Oh also: 18-30 year olds are nearly *twice* as likely to report past-year celibacy as 50-somethings, which is frankly amazing washingtonpost.com/business/2019/…
