New study finds an increase in sexlessness among young American adults
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One explanation for the increase in sexlessness is a decline in monogamy. Based on the survey’s findings, sexlessness has noticeably risen between the last survey wave (2017 to 2019) and the most recent wave (2022 to 2023). From the 2013 to 2015 wave to the 2022 to 2023 wave, sexlessness increased by 15 percent for males and 5 percent for females, the survey found.
What’s more, the amount of male and female respondents in the 22 to 34 age group identifying as virgins also increased between those two waves. Ten percent of young males and 7 percent of females reported being a virgin in 2022 to 2023. One explanation for the rise of sexlessness is the decline of monogamy and marriage. In other words, because married people are more likely to have sex regularly and fewer young people are getting married, little to no sex is now being had.
The survey found a decrease in heterosexual males with fewer than two female partners, but there was no change in the number of males with “large numbers of female sexual partners.”. Meanwhile, 45 percent of women without children said they had no interest in having kids in the future, and 57 percent of males said they were interested in becoming fathers.
