Americans are Having Less Sex than Before

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Americans are Having Less Sex than before
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The most valid reason for the decline in the frequency of sex among Americans is the increasing necessity to have a two-income family. Indeed, one of the responses given in the article shows that fatigue is the most cause of deteriorating sex life ADDIN CSL_CITATION { “citationItems” : [ { “id” : “ITEM-1”, “itemData” : { “DOI” : “10.1007/s10508-017-0953-1”, “ISBN” : “1050801709”, “ISSN” : “00040002”, “PMID” : “28265779”, “abstract” : “American adults had sex about nine fewer times per year in the early 2010s compared to the late 1990s in data from the nationally representative General Social Survey, N = 26,620, 1989u20132014. This was partially due to the higher per-centage of unpartnered individuals, who have sex less fre-quently on average. Sexual frequency declined among the partnered (married or living together) but stayed steady among the unpartnered, reducing the marital/partnered advantage for sexual frequency. Declines in sexual frequency were similar across gender, race, region, educational level, and work status and were largest among those in their 50s, those with school-age children, and those who did not watch pornography. In analyses separating the effects of age, time period, and cohort, the decline was primarily due to birth cohort (year of birth, also known as generation). With age and time period controlled, those born in the 1930s (Silent generation) …