>People are experiencing extended periods of sexlessness. In the US, a staggering 1 in 3 men and 1 in 5 women have not had sex in the past year, according to the General Social Survey. Testosterone levels are plummeting. Loneliness is at record highs.
>Like so many problems, social media are at least partly to blame.
>“The idealization of impossibly high standards has coaxed men into believing that social media influencers with millions of followers may one day show interest in them. It has persuaded women to give the time of day only to men who are over six feet tall and astronomically wealthy,” sex neuroscientist Dr. Debra Soh writes in “Sextinction: The Decline of Sex and the Future of Intimacy,” out Tuesday.
>“I think just like any technology, our evolutionary psychology has struggled to make sense of dating apps. Swiping through hundreds of partners in one sitting — at no time in the past was that ever possible,” Soh told me.
>That much choice isn’t a good thing. In her book, Soh calls it a “mismatch between our ancestry history and our tech-saturated environment [that is overwhelming] our evolutionary sensibilities.”
>It’s so bad, she writes, that “‘survival of the fittest’ is now on steroids and sidelining even the best of us.”
>Soh believes the sex recession is “going to worsen, because technology only advances,” and thinks everyone should be concerned — if not for themselves, then for the decline in fertility and the breakdown in personal connection that it causes.
source: Nypost /2026/02/10/lifestyle/americans-are-on-the-verge-of-sextinction/
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