Why don’t millennials have more sex? Maybe we’re just too stressed | Dami Olonisakin

There’s a popular misconception that millennials are lazy, entitled and whiners. We’re also told that we’re nothing more than a sex-obsessed generation who are constantly at it like rabbits. But although we’re more progressive than generations before us in terms of being sex-positive, we aren’t having as much sex as many would like to believe, because of stress and anxiety.

In a of just over 2,000 people for the BBC, 45% of adults said they had experienced negative impact on their sex life due to stress; 32% of people said their physical health was a factor; while 26% named mental health issues as the cause. You might think this just affects older people, but it follows other studies, such as , which found millennials were having less sex, with fewer sexual partners, in comparison with our parents’ generation when they were our age. And , from September, found 25% of couples in their 30s have a “sexless” relationship – but 77% of those aged 30 to 34 say their partner would like to have more sex.