Uhh, I’m not sure you’re familiar with what sex is, if that’s your definition. After all, your description includes soaking, and those Mormon teens assured me that neither god nor the government would mind.

I won't disagree that loneliness is an issue in our society. But I don't think it is the only "problem". Anecdotally for me: I wasn't ready to have sex, a relationship or for dating for a long time. So I'm mostly happy to have taken that time. In previous generations you'd marry and have kids for a while at that point. I think we have a lot more room to grow individually today.

I work with a horny 24-year-old virgin that's socially awkward and saving it for marriage...

There are more bi guys than society recognizes though.

Ackshually, AFAIK around 5% of the population are homosexual. If that is completely ignored in the graph, the actual number would be closer to 22%. It could possibly be even lower if you consider bisexuals who just not had sex with women. And if you consider that homosexuality is much more accepted these days the numbers are skewed and the percentage could be even higher among younger people.

Didn't you know? When you turn 18 your body hits the virginity reset button!

I'm guessing thats to avoid some ethical grey areas. Or theyre specifically gathering data on men after highschool.

I assume they don't want to open a can of worms regarding childhood abuse. Doesn't seem needless

I interpret the results as men between 18 and 29 who've never had sex. I'd answer at least 1 if I had sex at 17.

People weren't gay until 1989 so that makes sense. Literally not a single one. 😏

Sure, but like... maybe that data isn't really relevant or trustworthy either if that's how it was phrased?

Pollster: "Have you ever had sex with a woman?"

Closeted sexually active 28 year old gay guy when being gay could get you ostracized or killed: "Oh.... y... yeah! I love the vaginas. So... slippery and... moist (gag)"

Pollster: "NICE!" high five

It think that rather than early - really early - exposure to porn turning everyone into sex-fiends, it's actually terrifying a lot of them. What if I don't want to gargle cum like Adriana Chechik? What if I don't have a 10 inch cock to stuff my stepmother with?

A more optimistic reading might be that masturbating is easier, freer, quicker, and more accepted than ever before. Rather than risk an STI, pregnancy or human relationship, just crank one out and get back to work.

But it was also something people lied a lot about so the numbers could be shaky. Maybe we should redo it and ask old people when they got laid the first time.

I don't think it's that complicated. In 1989, your average young male hadn't entirely given himself over to fascism. All of this manoshpere shit started right around that 2010-2012 timeframe.

I think the far-right "manosphere" influencers are a good indication at what it does to mental health. Fascism, and extremist groups in general, seem to thrive on men not getting laid. IDK what the cause of this is though; I suppose more digital, less IRL social entertainment. They drink and do less drugs, which could be a reason too (especially drinking).

Edit: This is a self-reported statistic too. It may just be men are more comfortable reporting that their virgins instead of lying.

I don't trip, I'm not clumsy like that 😌

It’s certainly weird that today’s young people aren’t fucking when we were going nuts during the AIDS epidemic

I am certainly not normal enough to represent anyone else here, but while not HIV, I do fear HPV (the sexually-transmitted strains).

My parents did not get me vaccinated against it when it would have been covered by insurance, because... because.
So, some quick overview from my mind which you shouldn't trust as a source of information: Often marketed as something to protect women from cervical cancer, thus being reduced to "the vaccine for girls". That's often the view of public even now that it is also recommended to boys, which wasn't always the case. Even then, the reason often ended up being not spreading HPV onto women. People being stupid -> Either "I have a boy, so it doesn't matter." or "I raised my girl well, she won't need it."
Well anyway, for men, throat cancer, anal cancer and penile cancer sound pretty relevant.
Speaking of penile cancer, yesterday I came across photo of a man who got large cancerous growth on his trunk as a result of HPV, and had to undergone penectomy (i.e. bye dickie), plus the radiation therapy went wrong causing large burns.
All in all, basically a cancer vaccine, only effective if you didn't come into contact with HPV, which most sexually active people do, also why it's typically only given to kids.

So, moving on, Gardasil-9 protects against 9 high-risk strains. Doesn't sound like a bad idea even if you had sex, likely you haven't collected all 9 yet. But certainly best before.
So, 3 doses, 2nd after 2, 3rd after 6 months. I think they take around a month to become effective, so I guess 7 months for total vaccination. Paid by patient, almost 400 EUR for all 3 doses as far as I could find in my country.

So, not like I could get any regardless, but safer sex would cost me 7 months of waiting and almost 400 EUR while I am about to start college and make 4.70 EUR per hour. And it cannot be fully done retroactively later (after activity). It's also good to have saved some money. If my laptop or phone breaks, I need a replacement immediately (and I sure as fuck want another convertible ThinkPad).

It’s not obviously internet porn

It's social networks and the loss of 3rd (and 1st) places. Everybody knows what the problem is. Everybody has some idea how to fix it (look how to fix car transit). Every person in power is intent on refusing to improve things in any way and making it worse.

Aren't they turning the gays to incels?