One of the most telling statistics from the General Social Survey, is that Americans are having less sex now than they did in 1980s and 1990s.
Young men especially have become less sexually active. Since 2008, the share of men under 30 reporting no sex at all has nearly tripled.
Dillon Burroughs, The Christian Post
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