Nobody’s Having Sex Anymore. Here’s What’s Actually Going On.
The sex recession is real, it’s accelerating, and it’s reshaping everything we thought we knew about human connection.
I’ve been thinking about this for months.
Not in some theoretical way, not as a thought experiment. Just... noticing. My friends aren’t dating. My younger cousins aren’t dating. The guy at the coffee shop who used to flirt with everyone just sits there scrolling TikTok now. Something has shifted, and it’s not subtle.
Then I saw the data, and it hit me: this isn’t just my imagination. The numbers are staggering, and they’re pointing to something massive that nobody wants to talk about openly.
In 1990, more than half of American adults were having sex at least weekly. Now it’s barely a third. Among young men, one in three hasn’t touched anyone in a year. That’s not a blip. That’s a seismic change in how humans relate to each other.
And the thing that gets me? People act like this is normal. Like we’re just “evolving past sex” or something. But that’s not what’s happening. What’s happening is much weirder and much scarier than that.
The porn problem is real, but not how you think.
Everyone points to porn, and