New York, Oct (TIWN): Americans aren’t having sex as much as they did in the past, and the decline has been steady over the past three decades. Earlier this year, "The Washington Post" crunched the numbers from the General Social Survey, noting the United States hit an all-time low in in 2018 with one in four people reporting they’d been celibate for at least a year.

"The Great American Sex Drought", as the Post dubbed it, can be blamed on a few contributing factors, several of which we can tie to concrete data.