Does watching pornography have an effect on people’s desire for sex in real life? Are people working such long hours they’re just too tired to jump into bed for anything other than sleep?
Not likely.
“The decline in sex encounters was not linked to longer working hours or increased pornography use,” according to the authors in the abstract of the study. “Age had a strong effect on sexual frequency: Americans in their 20s had sex an average of about 80 times per year, compared to about 20 times per year for those in their 60s.
“The results suggest that Americans are having sex less frequently due to two primary factors: An increasing number of individuals without a steady or marital partner and a decline in sexual frequency among those with partners.”