LSex would no longer only be taboo but also neglected. According to an American study, relayed by Slate, young people around the world have become less interested in sex over the past decade. The forty-year-olds have not had a hectic sexuality either, but this phenomenon is even more reflected in young adults and adolescents who, in addition to having less sexual intercourse in a couple, tend to masturbate less than their elders did. And social networks would not be there for nothing…
According to Debby Herbenick and Tsung-chieh Fu, two of the study’s authors, ever-changing social networks and increasingly addictive video games are taking up so much of young people’s time that they are not taking care of their lives. sexual. This would impact the mental health, the health, and even the happiness of these individuals.
The era, independently of social networks, matters a lot. Young people are more depressed, anxious and stressed. All this influences the libido.
More and more men and women without any sexual activity
However, as Debby Herbenick pointed out in the review Scientific American, social networks, as powerful as they are, cannot be the only reason for this growing disinterest. “We expect there to be multiple factors, in different age groups, different genders, different social statuses,” she explained. Each of these factors would then explain “a drop of one or two percentage points”. All this put end to end gives a frank and clear reduction.
The study, carried out on a sample of 4,000 individuals (as many women as men), between 2009 and 2018, shows that in a decade the proportion of young men confident of having no sexual activity has gone from 28.8% to 44.2%. Among young women, this figure jumped from 49.5% to 74%.
