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Sexual inactivity increased among young American men between 2000 and 2018, according to researchers from Indiana University and Sweden's Karolinska Institutet who studied survey data from US adults. Postponement of adulthood and the growth of the internet and digital media could be reasons for why.
Researchers analyzed data looking at sexual frequency and number of sexual partners, looking at responses supplied by more than 4,000 men and 5,000 women for each question.
Men who were unemployed , had part-time employment or lower incomes were more likely to be sexually inactive, researchers found, noting that the percentage of sexually inactive 18- to 24 year-old men increased from 18.9% between 2000 and 2002 to 30.9% between 2016 and 2018.
Women aged 25 to 34 were also having less sex, researchers said in an investigation published Friday in the medical journal JAMA Network Open , pointing out that students were most likely to be affected.
The reasons for this downturn are complicated, researchers said.
"Higher income could mean more resources to search for partners and could be considered as more desirable by such partners," report co-author Peter Ueda said in a statement. "But the association might also be due to other factors such as personality, values and life choices that are associated with both income and the likelihood of being sexually active," he said.
In an invited commentary on the research, Jean M. Twenge, professor of psychology at San Diego State University, said that "a broader cultural trend toward delayed development" could have had an impact on sexual trends.
"First, adolescents and young adults are taking longer to grow to adulthood. This includes the postponement of not just sexual activity but also other activities related to mating and reproduction, including dating, living with a partner, pregnancy and birth," Twenge explained.
These reproductive trends are "part of a broader cultural trend toward delayed development," Twenge said, and had not occurred in isolation.
"It is more difficult to date and engage in sexual activity when not economically independent of one's parents," Twenge wrote.
However, researchers were also quick to point out that the trend of "growing up slowly" did not explain why sexual activity had decreased among older and married adults, noting that "the growth of the internet and digital media" could be affecting sex lives.
"Put simply, there are now many more choices of things to do in the late evening than there once were and fewer opportunities to initiate sexual activity if both partners are engrossed in social media, electronic gaming or binge-watching," Twenge added.
While social media and internet sites should in theory make it easier for Americans to find sexual partners, the use of mobile technology could interfere with the satisfaction garnered from in-person interaction, Twenge said.
It's not just young people in the US who have been having less sex. British couples are having less sex than in the previous two decades, although the number of people wanting more is rising, according to a 2019 study from the United Kingdom's London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.
A number of health benefits have been linked to regular sex, including reduced stress, improved heart health and better sleep.
Due to the coronavirus pandemic, however, it might be harder than usual for couples to act on their impulses, with stay-at-home orders and other social distancing measures still in place in many countries around the world.
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(CNN) Young Americans are having less sex -- and they can't even blame the coronavirus pandemic for this one.
Correction: A previous version of this story stated that the research had been conducted by psychologists from San Diego State University. The story has been updated to correct that they wrote the invited commentary on the research. The research itself was carried out by Indiana University and Sweden's Karolinska Institutet.

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Sexuality is a fundamental aspect of being human, and sexual activity is a basic part of human development for young people in the United States. As they develop, adolescents and young adults need access to evidence-based, holistic and nonstigmatizing information, education and services that support their lifelong sexual and reproductive health and well-being. The findings included in this fact sheet about adolescent sexual and reproductive health in the United States are the most current available, drawn primarily from recent nationally representative surveys. Although these data have limitations (see accompanying box ), they still provide important insights into young people’s experiences and needs.
Data are a powerful tool, but available data are not without their limitations. The national survey data from which this resource draws cannot fully represent the context in which a young person’s health behavior and decision making occurs. In addition, not all populations are included or appropriately represented in the available data. This fact sheet presents the best available data on this issue.
Young people need and have the right to accurate, comprehensive, inclusive information and education to support their healthy sexual development and lifelong sexual health and well-being ( see box ).
Leading public health and medical professional organizations—including the American Medical Association; the American Academy of Pediatrics; the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists; the American Public Health Association; the Health and Medicine Division of the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine (formerly the Institute of Medicine); and the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine—support comprehensive sex education. 45–49
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Figure 1: Sexual Intercourse Among Young People in the U.S.
Figure 2: State Laws on Minors’ Access to Contraceptives
Lindberg LD, Maddow-Zimet I and Boonstra H, Changes in adolescents’ receipt of sex education, 2006–2013, Journal of Adolescent Health , 2016, 58(6):621–627, doi:10.1016/j.jadohealth.2016.02.004.
1. Halpern CT and Haydon AA, Sexual timetables for oral-genital, vaginal and anal intercourse: sociodemographic comparisons in a nationally representative sample of adolescents, American Journal of Public Health , 2012, 102(6):1221–1228, doi:10.2105/AJPH.2011.300394.
2. Tolman DL and McClelland SI, Normative sexuality development in adolescence: a decade in review, 2000–2009, Journal of Research on Adolescence , 2011, 21(1):242–255, doi:10.1111/j.1532-7795.2010.00726.x.
3. Lenhart A, Smith A and Anderson M, Teens, Technology and Romantic Relationships, Washington, DC: Pew Research Center, 2015, https://www.pewinternet.org/2015/10/01/basics-of-teen-romantic-relationships/ .
4. Lindberg LD and Mueller J, Guttmacher Institute, special tabulations of data from the 2013–2015 National Survey of Family Growth.
5. Robbins CL et al., Prevalence, frequency and associations of masturbation with partnered sexual behaviors among US adolescents, Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicin e, 2011, 165(12):1087–1093, doi:10.1001/archpediatrics.2011.142.
6. Lindberg LD and Mueller J, Guttmacher Institute, special tabulations of data from the 2015–2017 National Survey of Family Growth.
7. Lindberg L, Santelli J and Desai S, Understanding the decline in adolescent fertility in the United States, 2007–2012, Journal of Adolescent Health, 2016, 59(5):577–583, doi:10.1016/j.jadohealth.2016.06.024.
8. Witwer E, Jones RK and Lindberg LD, Sexual Behavior and Contraceptive and Condom Use Among U.S. High School Students, 2013‒201 7, New York: Guttmacher Institute, 2018, https://www.guttmacher.org/report/sexual-behavior-contraceptive-condom-use-us-high-school-students-2013-2017 .
9. Boyer J, New name, same harm: rebranding of federal abstinence-only programs, Guttmacher Policy Review, 2018, 21:11–16, https://www.guttmacher.org/gpr/2018/02/new-name-same-harm-rebranding-federal-abstinence-only-programs .
10. Holmes KK, Levine R and Weaver M, Effectiveness of condoms in preventing sexually transmitted infections, Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2004, 82(6):454–461.
11. Sundaram A et al., Contraceptive failure in the United States: estimates from the 2006–2010 National Survey of Family Growth, Perspect
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