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The Cultural Death Grip Syndrome
We have this amazing ramping up of sexuality in public life but on the other hand exactly as you say we have what's sometimes called the sex recession. The fact that people are having sex later less frequently is demotivating them to seek out meaningful sexual relationships which would be vastly better for us over time. I know perfectly well from my clinical experience that the standard state of most young men especially under 20 let's say is pretty much terror in the face of a woman who they're very attracted to. We really haven't contended with at all in our society is how much desperation is necessary on the sexual front to drive young men and young women together, he says.