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  1. Married adults have markedly more sex than their unmarried peers, but the sex recession is also making inroads among married couples.
  2. When it comes to sexlessness (“no sex in the last year”) among young adults, the biggest change comes post-2010.
  3. Between 2010 and 2019, the average time young adults spent with friends in a given week fell by nearly 50%, from 12.8 hours to just 6.5 hours.

Source: Institute for Family Studies.

  • SabinStargem@lemmy.todayEnglish
    47·
    4 days ago

    Universal healthcare, the ability to afford visiting third places, and making it possible to raise a family would help with this.

      • ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        10·
        4 days ago

        You forgot making workplace hiring discrimination basically legal so that women are more dependent on men, making it harder for some to leave wife beaters. Rape still counts, right?

      • Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        6·
        4 days ago

        I mean, if you get em knocked up before they can really develop any independence and your Christian theocracy demands shotgun weddings, that’s going to reduce the labor pool and increase wages due to scarcity. It also sounds like hell on earth, but it would be hell on earth with a somewhat higher median wage.