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11/05/2019 GMT

Sex Recession

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US and British surveys show people are having less sex than in the past.

This week it was reported that British people are having less sex than they used to, and similar stories are cropping up across the world. But one US stat seemed particularly stark – the amount of young men having no sex at all in the past year has tripled in a decade. Is it true? 

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