Men Are Replacing Sex With Cell Phones

A rise in porn consumption has coincided with a sexless generation seeking instant gratification from blue screens at home.

Young men are replacing real life intimacy with cell phones.

According to a survey conducted last summer by the Pew Research Center, more than 60 percent of men under 30 reported being single. Those engaged in sexual intimacy, meanwhile, is down at a 30-year low, according to Psychology Today.

Conventional wisdom among traditional conservatives might celebrate the drop in pre-marital sex as a sign of the sexual revolution in decline. Except less and less men are looking to get married, and what they’re replacing intimacy with is far worse than promiscuity.

Men are watching more porn than ever before. Some estimates are as high as 95 percent having watched pornography at least once in their lifetime, with 49 percent who reported watching once a week, according to the men’s magazine Next Luxury. Of course, the numbers might even be higher considering men who lie when surveyed on sensitive issues.

According to the Institute for Family Studies last year, men are four times more likely than women to watch porn, with peak monthly viewership among those aged 30 to 49. A national survey of U.S. teens showed nearly 85 percent aged 14 to 18 reported porn consumption, which is nothing to blink.

The instant gratification offered through the blue screen at home is driving men away from genuine romance. The Pew Research Center found just half of all single men are even looking for dates or a relationship, down from 61 percent in 2019. And everybody, is having less sex. In 2021, the General Social Survey recorded its highest level of sexlessness ever with more than a quarter of Americans reporting total abstinence in the year prior.

Not only has the rise in porn consumption coincided with a new generation of men disinterested in companionship, but men who reach for short-term artificial fulfillment risk loneliness and a diminished sex life. Study after study links frequent viewership with desensitization, erectile dysfunction, and a diminished libido. One paper from 2013 found about 1 in 4 men under 40 already suffer new-onset erectile dysfunction. Another paper from European researchers published two years ago warned that men with high scores of porn addiction were far more likely to have erectile dysfunction.

The Institute for Family Studies found men who watched porn more frequently than others were most likely to report higher rates of insecurity and loneliness.

As more men succumb to the pitfalls of the digital pandemic, romance threatens to be the next victim.

Links:

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