How the 'celibacy recession' is affecting young Catholics
December 19, 2019
You may have heard of the “sex recession”. But there’s a “celibacy recession” too.
About a year ago headlines began to warn that, as an Atlantic cover story put it, “Despite the easing of taboos and the rise of hook-up apps, Americans are in the midst of a sex recession.” Millennials have less sex than their parents did at comparable ages, and the younger generation, sometimes called Gen Z, has even colder sheets than the millennials.
