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So what’s happening? We live in one of the most sexually liberated eras ever, and the young, nubile people best able to take advantage of it are just … playing video games?

Well, there’s a few reasons for this.

MILLENNNIALS AREN’T GETTING MARRIED

Say what you will about sex after marriage, but getting married does indeed pack you into a house with someone who will probably get bored and have sex with you once in a while. Unless you’re able to cultivate a Sex and the City level of promiscuity, you’re not going to be able to top the sex frequency of someone who sleeps next to a sexing partner every single night. Millennials are not only waiting way longer to get married, but they’re doing it at way lower rates. In the U.S., up to 25 per cent of Millennials are on track to never get married, compared to just 9 per cent of early Baby Boomers.

TOO MANY MILLENNIALS ARE LIVING WITH THEIR PARENTS

It’s not a stereotype: A disproportionate number of Millennials are indeed living with their parents. According to U.S. data, 15 per cent of 25 to 35-year-olds are living with their folks, nearly double the rate of early Baby Boomers. It’s hard to get your bone on when you’re sharing a kitchen with your elderly parents.

DATING APPS

For some, the advent of “swipe-right” dating apps have ushered in an avalanche of constant banging. But the vast majority of us aren’t all that pretty, so we need to trick people into sleeping with us with other attributes like confidence, money or sense of humour. Unfortunately, none of those things show up in a Tinder photo, so no banging for you. At least, this is the theory of Jean Twenge, who has researched Millennial sex habits. Said Twenge, “(dating apps) end up putting a lot of importance on physical appearance, and that, I think, is leaving out a large section of the population.”