https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20221019-the-millennials-in-sexless-marriages
"… Although millennials are in or around their sexual prime, some members of this generation around the world have reportedly been "retreating from sex". Accounts from millennials forums including r/DeadBedrooms corroborate this, especially for married and long-term couples.
Some recent statistics tell a similar story: a 2021 survey of adults ages 18 to 45 across the US, conducted by the Kinsey Institute at Indiana University and sex-retailer Lovehoney, showed that among married adults, millennials were the most likely to "report problems with sexual desire in the past year". The survey showed 25.8% of married millennials reported this problem, while only 10.5% of married Gen Z and 21.2% of married Gen X adults reported the same."
" Although these aspects contributing to sexless marriages aren't particular to any generation, some experts have noticed a shift in who's experiencing sexless relationships, and at what periods in their lives."
"It's become a shorter amount of time in which [couples] become sexless," believes San Francisco-based sex therapist Celeste Hirschman, who's been seeing clients for about 20 years. Anecdotally, she used to see it take around 10 to 15 years for couples to stop having sex with each other. "Now, it's maybe taking three to five," she says."
" May 2022 data from global consulting firm Deloitte, collected across five countries, revealed 38% of millennials reported a massive mental-health burden, especially for women (41%) versus men (36%), largely driven by work anxiety."
" Per Relate's 2018 data, 37% of people younger than 30 who were in low-sex partnerships reported self-consciousness about their bodies, while only 14% of those 60 and older said the same."
"In addition to social media, the experts agree porn has had an outsized influence on millennials, many of whom came of age just as porn was becoming widely accessible online. "
" Anderson has many younger-than-45 male clients in sexless marriages who suffer from "porn-induced erectile dysfunction", she says a condition that makes it either impossible or very difficult to achieve an erection without pornography and with a real-life partner."
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While we make humor out of millennials' challenges, they have been handed a horrible hand: a prosperous society with fewer moral restraints, a tech-heavy workplace that is capricious and judgemental if opinions don't align politically and a social environment that constantly gives negative feedback. It may not be Great Depression era stuff (yet), but the lack of ability to relate to a marital partner intimately was one of the few harbors of refuge left after facing a hostile world. Their elders' decisions to spend the country into bankruptcy cannot help their mental health as they try to save and invest.
"… Although millennials are in or around their sexual prime, some members of this generation around the world have reportedly been "retreating from sex". Accounts from millennials forums including r/DeadBedrooms corroborate this, especially for married and long-term couples.
Some recent statistics tell a similar story: a 2021 survey of adults ages 18 to 45 across the US, conducted by the Kinsey Institute at Indiana University and sex-retailer Lovehoney, showed that among married adults, millennials were the most likely to "report problems with sexual desire in the past year". The survey showed 25.8% of married millennials reported this problem, while only 10.5% of married Gen Z and 21.2% of married Gen X adults reported the same."
" Although these aspects contributing to sexless marriages aren't particular to any generation, some experts have noticed a shift in who's experiencing sexless relationships, and at what periods in their lives."
"It's become a shorter amount of time in which [couples] become sexless," believes San Francisco-based sex therapist Celeste Hirschman, who's been seeing clients for about 20 years. Anecdotally, she used to see it take around 10 to 15 years for couples to stop having sex with each other. "Now, it's maybe taking three to five," she says."
" May 2022 data from global consulting firm Deloitte, collected across five countries, revealed 38% of millennials reported a massive mental-health burden, especially for women (41%) versus men (36%), largely driven by work anxiety."
" Per Relate's 2018 data, 37% of people younger than 30 who were in low-sex partnerships reported self-consciousness about their bodies, while only 14% of those 60 and older said the same."
"In addition to social media, the experts agree porn has had an outsized influence on millennials, many of whom came of age just as porn was becoming widely accessible online. "
" Anderson has many younger-than-45 male clients in sexless marriages who suffer from "porn-induced erectile dysfunction", she says a condition that makes it either impossible or very difficult to achieve an erection without pornography and with a real-life partner."
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While we make humor out of millennials' challenges, they have been handed a horrible hand: a prosperous society with fewer moral restraints, a tech-heavy workplace that is capricious and judgemental if opinions don't align politically and a social environment that constantly gives negative feedback. It may not be Great Depression era stuff (yet), but the lack of ability to relate to a marital partner intimately was one of the few harbors of refuge left after facing a hostile world. Their elders' decisions to spend the country into bankruptcy cannot help their mental health as they try to save and invest.
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