"Not only are women and men marching together into sexlessness; they’re also on the same road to loneliness...."

"In 21st-century America, loneliness is essentially omnipresent, and the high schooler’s cliché fear that 'everyone else is having sex' has never been less true.... Those of us in a position to be having more sex ought to be doing so.... Having more sex can be an act of social solidarity.... Sex is intrinsic to a society built on social connection — and right now, our connections and our sex lives are collapsing alongside each other. Many people... have resigned themselves to displacing their sexual desires, relying entirely on porn or other online stimuli.... As a balm for loneliness, digital sex can be little better than digital friendship — a source of envy, resentfulness and spite, a driver of loneliness rather than a cure for it. It’s no match for the real thing. So, any capable people should have sex — as much as they can, as pleasurably as they can, as often as they can." 

Writes Magdalene J. Taylor in "Have More Sex, Please!" (NYT).