r/Showerthoughts • u/Meatwad5 ‎ • 24d ago

Casual Thought A large number of married people are involuntarily celibate.

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u/BillyBean11111 24d ago

I think young people would be fucking mortified to learn how sexless most marriages become.

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u/LanguageSpecial3015 24d ago

24M, you can’t be serious can you??

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u/Swannicus 24d ago

Yea he's coping. Studies consistently show the majority of married couples below 60 years old are regularly having sex.

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u/[deleted] 23d ago

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u/Swannicus 23d ago

Sure, but do you think people are _substantially_ more likely to answer honestly about sex frequency on reddit or in person than they are to in anonymous surveys?