No Sex Please, We're B̶r̶i̶t̶i̶s̶h̶ French

[niemeyjt]

Ooh la nah: France suffers ‘unprecedented decline’ in sex

France is suffering from an “unprecedented decline in sexual activity”, particularly among young people, according to a new study that flies in the face of Latin lover stereotypes.

Some 28 per cent of 18-24 year-olds who had already slept with someone in their lives have not had sexual intercourse in a year, compared with 5 per cent in 2006, according to the Ifop survey for the sex toy company Lelo, which was reported by state radio France Inter.

In the 50-59 age bracket, 35 per cent of French people admitted to having been sexually inactive over the last 12 months, up considerably from 10 per cent in 2006.

Overall, the proportion of sexually initiated people who said they had sexual intercourse in the last 12 months was 76 per cent, which is a 15 percentage point drop compared with 2006.

François Kraus, director of Ifop’s gender, sexuality and sexual health unit, told France Inter: “Before, the French thought they had to have sex two or three times a week, but today the notion of sobriety, which is fairly widespread, is also reflected in terms of sexuality.”

The French, and 18-24 year-olds in particular, are having less and less sex, according to the Ifop survey.

The study also notes a decline in the frequency of sexual activity. Some 43 per cent of French people report having sexual intercourse on average once a week, compared with 58 per cent in 2009.

According to Ifop, this “contraction in sexual activity is taking place against a backdrop of growing dissociation between conjugality and sexuality”.

More than half of adult women (54 per cent) and 42 per cent of men say, for example, that they could live with someone in a purely platonic relationship.

The French increasingly seem to think that “they are no longer obliged to have an intense or hectic sex life in order to be a successful couple”.

Ifop said the digital world was partly to blame for today’s sex life being “less intense than before the age of the smartphone and broadband”.

“Sexual time’ appears to be in clear competition with time spent on screens, which not only offer a means of satisfying social and/or sexual needs but also tend to eat into time spent with someone else”, said Ifop’s Mr Kraus.

After years of “hypersexualisation of society”, the study highlights “a new cycle in which the compulsion to have a sex life to ‘please’ or to be ‘like everyone else’ is diminishing”.

“A growing number of French men and women seem to be freeing themselves from the norms that make active sexuality an essential component of a successful life or, at any rate, of a harmonious life as a couple,” added Mr Kraus.

source: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/ ... tionships/

[tagh]

Malthus would be turning in his grave

[Quiksilver]

Alone

[Doug]

But it's the same the world over according to my news reading.

[ajm]

Perhaps it should be called iflop

[Doug]

Perhaps it should be called iflop

That's another big (pun) issue today as well E.D. along with very low sperm count.

[hughnique]

Don't suppose the fashionable rise in LBGT has anything to do with it.

[Niftyons]

The French are drinking less wine. I put it down to all this organic stuff.
No preservatstiffs.

[Polly]

Maybe the payment to big families should be increased by a large amount - it would eventually help fill all the vacancies we see advertised.

[beejay]

deleted. joke already posted and I missed it.