Over the past decade, there has been a marked decline in sexual activity among young people, which has led to concerns regarding a 'sex recession.' Studies reveal that celibacy rates among people in their early twenties have doubled, presenting a stark contrast to previous generations. This phenomenon has spurred a range of societal discussions, with critics highlighting loneliness, anxiety, and addiction to pornography as contributing factors. The shift has been particularly noted among young men and women, who report substantial periods without sexual activity, raising questions about modern dating culture.
The youth had stopped fucking. They were a 'new generation of prigs, prudes, and squares,' a blog declared; they were 'anxious, lonely and addicted to porn.'
Traditionally, it is the role of the old to worry that the young are having sex too much. But the statistics since then have consistently suggested a genuine sex recession.
The statistics since then have consistently suggested a genuine sex recession, one that includes young millennials, though it has become attached in the public imagination to Gen Z.
In 2018, a survey of eighteen- to twenty-four-year-olds found that nearly a third of the men in that group, and about a fifth of the women, had gone without sex for a year.
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