Let’s Talk About Sex! No, Really!!
A Discussion on Declining Sex Rates with Advanced Google Gemini
8 min readAug 11, 2024
I heard on some NPR show during a conversation with some panelists that one of them cited that Americans are having less sex due to social media. I knew people were spending excessive time on social media, but I didn’t know that that translated into less sex. Can you put some perspective on this with a before social media and after social media stats?
Unfortunately, I cannot provide specific “before social media” and “after social media” statistics on sexual frequency. This is because comprehensive and reliable data on sexual behavior, especially spanning such a long period and directly isolating the impact of social media, is difficult to obtain.
However, several studies and surveys point to a possible correlation between increased social media usage and a decline in sexual activity:
- The General Social Survey (GSS): This long-running survey in the U.S. has shown a decline in the frequency of sex among American adults since the early 2000s, coinciding with the rise of…