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Is Pornography Behind America’s Sex Recession?

Young men report disappointing sex lives, but pornography is probably not to blame

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Daniel Cox
Apr 29, 2022
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We are living through a sex recession. At least, so we are told. Americans are having less sex and this has been described as an unfortunate development.

Not everyone appears equally affected. The March American Perspectives Survey reveals that nearly one in three (32 percent) men under the age of 30 have never had sex. Among young women, only 23 percent…

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