LOS ANGELES (KNX) – A guest essay by Magdalene Taylor in The New York Times suggested Americans are not having enough sex.
“More than a quarter of Americans had had sex even once in the past year the last time the General Social Survey asked, in 2021,” she wrote.
Taylor, a sex and culture writer and author of the newsletter Many Such Cases, told KNX In Depth she thinks it mirrors a decline in friendships and relationships, among other things.
“It’s all a sign of an overwhelming cultural isolation,” she explained. “Sex is really only just one part of that, but I think it’s a pretty crucial part of it and one that gets people talking and gets them thinking about the state of loneliness right now.”
While she doesn’t have “a concrete answer” as to why sex was low even before the pandemic, she believes social media and phones do play a role.
“I do think that social media, time spent on our phones has come to replace a lot of different types of in person interactions and if we look at the dates of when this decline started to occur, it is kind of in line with an iPhone becoming a much more ubiquitous, everyday object for example,” she said.
She added, “It’s a lot easier to have your everyday interactions, whether they be erotic or totally platonic just through your phone. But unfortunately it doesn’t replace the real thing.”
Listen to the full interview in the audio above.
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