Sex has never been more visible.

And yet, we have become the least sexual generation in modern history.

Pornography is instantly available. Dating apps offer billions of swipes. Sexual norms are more permissive than ever. But partnered sex is falling, younger generations are dating less, and many people young report having had no sex in the previous year.

Dr. Debra Soh is a neuroscientist who has spent years studying human sexuality and has been following this “sex recession” since the earliest research began documenting it over a decade ago.

To understand how a culture this obsessed with sex ended up having so little of it, we follow five clues: • Why sexual inactivity is rising even as sex becomes more culturally visible
 • How dating apps created more options but surprisingly little real-world connection
 • Why pornography may be replacing some of the motivation required for partnered sex
 • What AI companions like Bobby reveal about outsourcing intimacy itself
 • And the deepest paradox of all: what we may have lost when we rejected the old rules around sex and relationships

Together, those clues point toward a much bigger question: How did a generation with more access to sex than any before it become so disconnected from actually having it?

Chapters: 0:00 - Intro 1:20 - The Sex Recession (Clue 1) 8:08 - 3 Billion Swipes (Clue 2) 43:42 - One-Player Mode (Clue 3) 1:06:51 - Bobby (Clue 4) 1:21:04 - The Freedom Paradox (Clue 5) 1:35:57 - Putting The Clues Together

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