This should come as no surprise to most of us on this sight, we are on a dating sight looking for a match, or that was what first brought us here. Great sex takes connections, connections make us happy, pretty simple.

Proven in 1962; As population density increases, any social population naturally loses interest in sex, there's more child neglect and abandonment, and there's more same-sex behavior...

[ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

BTW We're still growing (births minus deaths) at the rate of 158 more per minute, 227,000 more per day, 1 million every 5 days.

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I enjoy sex and I'm happy... I wasn't part of that research...

Of course, it's not just "young Americans" who are less happy and having less sex. The correlation goes all the way up the age range well past "middle age" and into the geriatric ages. Undeniable Fact: Americans of all ages are having less sex (than several decades ago). One salient observation: Many of the rules have changed.

Now, men are less motivated (or more reluctant) to approach a woman about sex. When a man expresses sexual interest in a woman these days, he is a lot more likely to experience an often unpredictable backlash. In the workplace it's often called harassment, and a guy can suffer badly because of it. The #MeToo movement scares a lot of men. An underlying resentment of woman has developed that some men might express privately among themselves such as: "If women are so goddamn proud and protective of their pussy, they can just keep it for all I care."

Speaking of backlash, I expect to get unfavorable comments for what I just wrote. But so be it. Gender resentment among men exists today more strongly than I remember from the past. In my opinion, we men are more prone to behaving badly because of sexual frustration. I'm not sure what we can do about it, but legalized prostitution might be one possible answer.

Disaster in the making

If the survey asked young people if their views of their futures affected their happiness, the Atlantic article did not report on the results.

My deciding to have no children and to marry a woman who wanted no children were two of the best decisions I made. By sparing me a life like my father’s, those decisions GREATLY INCREASED my happiness. BTW, I’m 88 going on 89.

Reduced Sex makes Everyone Unhappy .