By Christine Emba, Photo: Rachel Wisniewski/The Washington Post, The Washington Post, October 25, 2022
Last year, a best-selling essay collection titled “The Right to Sex” argued thoroughly and effectively that — as appealing as such an unconventional idea might sound to frustrated, sex-deprived men — there is in fact no such thing. And with that you might have thought that the idea had been put to bed.
But think again. “Young men aren’t having sex!” tweeted activist and former Pennsylvania Democratic congressional candidate Alexandra Hunt last week, setting off an internet firestorm.
Hunt cited a graph clipped from a 2019 Post article. “Nearly a third of men under 30 have not had sex,” she continued. “And a higher percent do not have as much sex as they’d like — not exactly surprising, but this kind of statistic is a sign of much deeper problems.” (The graph, it’s worth noting, was being mischaracterized: The statistic refers to men who had not had sex over the past year, not their entire lives. Hunt also did not mention that 18 percent of women said the same.)
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