article: Why Are Young People Having So Little Sex?

[MatureDJ]

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/12/the-sex-recession/573949/

“My first instinct was go to bars,” he said. But each time he went to one, he struck out.

He had better luck with Tinder than the other apps, but it was hardly efficient. He figures he swiped right—indicating that he was interested—up to 30 times for every woman who also swiped right on him, thereby triggering a match. But matching was only the beginning; then it was time to start messaging. “I was up to over 10 messages sent for a single message received,” he said. In other words: Nine out of 10 women who matched with Simon after swiping right on him didn’t go on to exchange messages with him. This means that for every 300 women he swiped right on, he had a conversation with just one.

In reality, unless you are exceptionally good-looking, the thing online dating may be best at is sucking up large amounts of time.

“No one approaches anyone in public anymore,” said a teacher in Northern Virginia. “The dating landscape has changed. People are less likely to ask you out in real life now, or even talk to begin with,” said a 28-year-old woman in Los Angeles who volunteered that she had been single for three years.

According to a November 2017 Economist/YouGov poll, 17 percent of Americans ages 18 to 29 now believe that a man inviting a woman out for a drink “always” or “usually” constitutes sexual harassment. (Among older groups, much smaller percentages believe this.)

In all dating markets, apps appear to be most helpful to the highly photogenic. As Emma, a 26-year-old virgin who sporadically tries her luck with online dating, glumly told me, “Dating apps make it easy for hot people—who already have the easiest time.”

... male users who were rated most physically attractive by female users got 11 times as many messages as the lowest-rated men did; medium-rated men received about four times as many messages.

 

[Who Dares Win]

Ok so basically those who cant count on great looks get their legs broken by making approaching culturally and legally riskful, then they complain that young people is having less sex and less relationship than before.

Sure, put land mines instead of soccer balls then be surprised if no one wants to kick penality kick anymore.