Watching TV shows streaming is lethal for relations … – LaCapital.com.ar

New technologies conspire against love, but against sex. At least as demonstrated by the recent statistics on the number of intimate relationships that keep couples. The explanation? . The sustained growth recorded consumption of TV series via streaming

The percentages do not lie: in 1990, couples had sex 5 times per month, on average, but in 2010 they turned 3 times, ie, there was a 40 percent decline in just 20 years, a fall that caused concern and lit a warning light in sexology.

television services “a la carte” offered by internet “deconcentrated” couples when having sex

According to the expert in relationships David Spiegelhalter, if statistics continue to that pace, by 2030 couples could not have sex at all, as quoted by the newspaper the Telegraph .

apparently the long list of series that offer television services via streaming as Netflix are addictive are “deconcentrated” to couples when having sex.

“the problem is the massive connection, constant watch phones compared to a few years ago, when TV was closed at 22.30 and since there was nothing else to do. There was even blackouts, which helped. Now, people are having less sex, “said Spiegelhalter.

“the problem is, the constant mass connection look at the phone compared to a few years ago “

But services streaming not be solely responsible for that couples are less active in the bedroom a study published in 2013 in the journal the Lancet , had already found other culprits.. Facebook and Twitter

the problem is that lovers would be taking their devices to the bedroom, and occupy their nights checking social networks and answering e-mails, as highlighted Cath Dr. Mercer of University College London, the signal BBC .

the TV addiction streaming is more worrying among millennials, the new digital native generation

in general, it would a tendency to have less sex is clearly seen between the generation of Millennials and Boomers, said a study published in 2015 in the scientific journal Achieves of Sexual Behavior. On average, the first come to have about 8 sex partners when they reach age 40, while the latter (which are an older generation) reached 10 or 11.

This trend was accentuated in young people between 25 and 35 years, who in the Lancet study, proved to be the age group that had less sex. Is it because of the constant attention to the endless entertainment emanating from your smart TVs, smartphones and tablets? What do you think?