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"Ctrl-F Marriage" gives no results. Surely decrease in marriages is the biggest driver. It's a lot easier to have sex with someone if you live with them. A straight person isn't going to find multiple new partners to sleep with per week and even if you have a boyfriend/girlfriend, unless you are cohabitating you probably only see them a few days per week.


This would conflict with the stereotype that marriage == little sex, after the first few years?


The median American has ~5 sexual partners. So unless they're having a lot of sex with those partners when they're dating, marriage is still the biggest driver. I would bet the median person has had sex more often with their spouse than with all other partners combined.


Perhaps because the stereotype is wrong? Or rather, it depends on the relationship you have with your partner. Intimacy will mirror the rest of your relationship.


> It's a lot easier to have sex with someone if you live with them.

I promise you it’s just as easy if you live near each other and much of Europe isn’t get married in their early 20s but are still having sex.


I'm pretty sure Europe has the same pattern as America. It's not a European vs. America thing.




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