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A Discussion on Declining Sex Rates with Advanced Google Gemini

Tony Berard
8 min readAug 11, 2024

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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…

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Tony Berard

I have lately been constructing arguments against God and the supernatural. I have proven that stuff doesn't exist with science equations. I aspire to be great.