The pieces of a jigsaw puzzle fall into place;

Those who study the sexual habits of young people generally point to three key reasons: There’s the unaffordability of housing, which makes younger people live at home longer (not exactly conducive to lots of sex). There’s the lack of booze—the social lubricant that used to be a precursor to most intimacy—and apparently kids aren’t as drinking much today as we used to. Then there’s the third one: youth mental health issues, which are exacerbated by too much screen time, isolation, and loneliness. Seems like kids aren’t dating much these days, at least not in person. Probably spending so much time with your face buried in your phone will leave you less interested and less competent in successfully hooking up with a real person you would otherwise want to shag.

I would add a fourth reason, and one that is slowly gaining attention in medical circles. Several commonly prescribed drugs, particularly antidepressants, are causing sexual dysfunction in youth. The most surprising aspect of this is that sometimes the sexual dysfunction is permanent and continues after the person stops taking the drug, a phenomenon well enough documented to have its own name, PSSD (Post-SSRI Sexual Dysfunction).

SSRI antidepressants, such as Prozac, Zoloft, and Paxil, among others, as well as drugs for acne (isotretinoin) and baldness (finasteride) are at the top of the list of treatments capable of causing serious and sometimes long-term sexual dysfunction, described as numb genitalia, inability to orgasm, emotional blunting, and so on.