What happens to you when you abstain from sex for a long time?
Self-imposed sex renunciation? Only monks do that! If that’s your spontaneous reaction, you’re not alone, and you’re not entirely wrong. Sexual abstinence is usually involuntary and due to external circumstances: a lot of stress, illness or being single. U.S. researchers from the University of San Diego revealed in a study that we have less sex today than 20 years ago. According to the results, people in the 1990s were still having sex 60 to 65 times a year, but today only about 53 times. A study by the University of Leipzig underpins the downward trend, with young people in particular living ascetic lives: almost 30 percent of single men and women between the ages of 15 and 30 had not had sex in the year before the study (masturbation excluded