Americans are saying no to sex like never before with young men leading the depressing trend

Let’s not get it on.Americans are losing interest in sex, a government study revealed — with one astonishing age group leading the no nookie trend.Rates of sexlessness are climbing from coast to coast among adults aged 22 to 34, statistics plucked from the newly-unsheathed National Survey of Family Growth showed — with ten percent of young males and 7 percent of their female counterparts saying they’re still virgins.“In sum, for young adult males, sexlessness has roughly doubled across all measures over the last 10 years or so.

For young adult females, it has risen by roughly 50 percent,” the Institute of Family Studies (IFS), which published an analysis of the study, reported.The survey is conducted annually by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), with support from the U.S.Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).Researchers conduct face-to-face interviews with American men and women aged 15-49, collecting data on everything from bedroom behavior to reproductive health habits.Besides the fact that virginity appears to be trending, the numbers also showed big jumps in the numbers of sexually active men and women in the 22-34 bracket reporting a serious lack of loving.A whopping 24% of males 22-34 had not had sex in the year 2022-2023 — up from 9% in 2013-15.

For females, the number was 13%, up from 8%.And when asked if they’d had sex in the last three months, 35% of men said no — another big jump from 20%.

Women didn’t fare much better, with 31% concurring this time around, up from 21%.The IFS said that across all categories, the data showed that the number of sex-starved young men had approximately doubled during the last decade.

For women, the number was 50 percent.Narrowing the focus to discover when these trends began, the experts said that much of the jump occurred between 2019 and 2022 — the same time as the pandemic.

However, they also offered that Covid-era...