Weird Science: America Today = Less Sex + More Fat. Have We Just Stopped Trying?

This Week in Weird Science: We go All-American and learn Americans aren’t having sex. They’re eating too much bacon and drinking far too much soda. And, as a country, we’ve fully accepted our fatness—yes, science has backed America’s “fat acceptance.”
Americans aren’t having sex as much as their parents and grandparents.
Think you’re getting more ass than your parents ever did? Well, we’ve got some bad news, you probably aren’t.
A new study published in the journal Archives of Sexual Behavior reports that American adults just aren’t boning like they did in the 1990s, having nine fewer encounters per year than older generations. This drop also spans across age, gender, race, region, education level and work status. Basically, where the 1990s brought prominence to the “bump and grind,” today’s generation would much rather be bad and boujee, according to an anthropological analysis by Migos.
Though the results of the study suggest the reduction of sexual frequency is due to “the increasing number of individuals without a steady or marital partner,” because you can’t have sex without a partner—though, right hands may beg to differ—and “a decline in sexual frequency among those with partners (both married and unmarried).”
Using data from the General Social Survey from 1989-2014, adults from 1989-1994 had sex, on average, 60 to 62 times a year. Among today’s adults, that number has dropped to less than 53 times per year—about once a week. Perhaps more alarming, though, is that married couples have sex less frequently than never-married individuals, with 55 times a year to 59 times a year, respectively.
The report didn’t test any specific reasons for as to why this decline has happened, but the researchers behind the study suggest that the decline may be related to fatigue from working longer hours and the growing number of entertainment alternatives, which means “Netflix and chill” may literally be Netflix and chill, without any further connotation.
Oh, and you know the generation least likely to “Netflix and chill?” That generation, those born in the 1930s have, overwhelmingly, the most sex of any other adult demographic on the list. Maybe instead of “Netflix and chill” it should be “Sign of the Beefcarver and Werther’s.”
Americans have accepted their fatness.