At bedtime, the glow from their phones lights their faces more than each other does. The silence between them says what their voices don’t: the space between “hello” and “how are you?” has widened. What was once intimate has become incidental—a posture shaped not by longing, but by habit. This quiet erosion of connection lies at the heart of what researchers now call America’s “sex recession.”
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