你有多少性爱？如果您没有伙伴关系并处理迄今为止的含义并有性关系，这可能是一个有趣的问题in the age of the pandemic。但是无论您的关系状况如何，无论如何COVID-19，您的质量性生活is part of your overall health.
That's why the results of astudy published in June 2020 in the journal贾马Network Openthat analyzed trends in frequency of sexual activity among adults is so important, say health experts. The upshot: Young people and married couples are having少性。
Sex Frequency Study Finds Surprising Numbers
在这项研究中，研究人员对近10,000名18至44岁的成年人进行了调查，以了解其性交和性伴侣的数量。该研究从2000年到2018年获得了将近二十年的数据。结果：
- From 2000 to 2002, the number of men ages 18 to 24 reporting no sexual activity within the previous year was 19 percent — by 2016 to 2018, that had risen to 31 percent.
- 在2016年至2018年之间，近五分之一的女性（19％）据报道性不活跃。
- From 2000 to 2002, 71 percent and 69 percent of married men and women, respectively, reported having sex weekly. In 2016 to 2018, that dropped to 58 and 61 percent of married men and women, respectively, having weekly sex.
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为什么要下降？根据该研究的作者，有几种解释说明为什么更多的人没有性行为。一个人可能是go-go-go-go-24/7忙碌的生活方式，成为某些人的地位象征，而对其他人则是必要的（有较少的时间发生性关系）；或我们将头埋在技术设备（称为Phubbing的行为）的事实，这可能使您专注于屏幕，而不是合作伙伴。此外，年轻人的焦虑和抑郁症增加，未能发射（#AdultingIshard），妇女选择从休闲性接触中选择，以及智能手机在使我们变得较低的社会熟练技能方面所扮演的角色，这是年轻人拥有的其他潜在原因少性。
“It seems like in the United States and elsewhere, it has become harder for a proportion of the population to establish themselves in society, in the labor market, and perhaps also in the dating market,” says彼得·乌达（Peter Ueda），医学博士，博士, a coauthor of the study and a postdoctoral researcher at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm.
一个reliance on communicating through technology doesn’t help young people develop the social and intimacy skills and vulnerability needed to be in a physical relationship, saysLogan Levkoff, PhD，纽约市的性教育者。她说：“这些都是人们需要发展的重要技能，无论您如何识别或性取向。”她补充说：“我担心缺乏实践确实会影响人们的方式以及是否可以彼此之间的互动。”
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19009大流行对性行为的影响
Remember, this study was done with data ending in 2018 — in other words, pre-pandemic。一个ndCOVID-19可能不会帮助人们建立新的亲密关系。Ueda博士说：“社会疏远措施和对人类接触的普遍焦虑可能会使寻找伴侣更加努力。”该研究还发现，收入较低且受雇于兼职或失业的男人更有可能是性非活动的，这是当今与之相关的，因为当前的经济衰退可能只会使情况变得更糟。
Levkoff博士说，这种缺乏人际关系的缺乏时间的时间越长，首先重新启动甚至发展技能的困难越难。将来，人们可能会有更少的性生活。她说：“人类的联系，触摸和愉悦 - 但是我们喜欢体验它 - 确实很重要。”
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你应该多久做爱？
先前的研究发现，我们的脆弱性下降。一个研究于2019年5月发表在BMJ在英国成年人中发现，在2001年至2012年之间，25岁以上的成年人和已婚或同居的成年人的性别较低。study in the March 2017一个rchives of Sexual Behavior发现与1990年代后期相比，2010年代初，美国成年人每年的性行为少9次。已婚的人们的性行为也减少了。研究人员指出，这段时间里有更多没有伴侣的人（这往往会转化为发生性关系的机会更少），而与这些伴侣发生性关系的人则更少。
但是仅仅因为性对你有好处，这并不意味着你有很多性爱应该有。更重要的是，您所拥有的频率使您和您的伴侣满意（如果您处于恋爱关系中）。International Society for Sexual Medicine。
“我是对有抱负一定频率性的持谨慎态度的怀疑论者之一。”Debby Herbenick，博士, a professor at the Indiana University School of Public Health in Bloomington and the author ofThe Coregasm Workout。(She was another coauthor on the贾马study.) “That said, partnered sexual activity is indeed one component of sexual well-being, and so creating the kind of sex life that feels good can enhance overall性健康, relationships, and possibly mental health and well-being,” she says.
The idea that more people are staying sexually inactive goes against the “hookup culture” we’ve been told exists, especially among young people. “Among my own college students, for years now, many have described opting out of hookup culture in favor of waiting to have sex with someone they like and feel connected to,” says Dr. Herbenick.
“For individuals and partners, I’d encourage us to focus less on what our neighbors are doing and more on creating the kinds of sexual lives that work for us,” says Herbenick. “Decades of research have found that lifestyle behaviors — healthy eating, exercise, sleep quality — relationship quality, intimacy, and connection are important influences on creating pleasurable, meaningful sex lives.”
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