The sourced articles below should provide you more information on married vs. single sex.
- The Sex Recession: The Share of Americans Having Regular Sex Keeps Dropping
“This much is clear: young adults are spending less time dating, mating, and getting married, with obvious implications for sex. Indeed, the lack of marriage is why young adults face the brunt of the sex recession. The data tell us that married adults have markedly more sex than their unmarried peers: 46% of married men and women, ages 18-64, have weekly sex compared to about 34% of their unmarried peers.”
Grant Bailey and Brad Wilcox, ifstudies.org, 8/30/2025
- Sex, Intimacy, And Connection: What Research Shows In 2025
“… Older generations, on the other hand, grew up in a time when marriage and cohabitation were more common by one’s 20s, which likely contributed to higher sexual frequency in young adulthood historically. Today, with more people delaying marriage or remaining single longer, the 20s are often less sexually active on average than before. …”
Kayla Crane, southdenvertherapy.com, 8/21/2025
- 20s, 30s, 40s Or 50s: Which Age Group Is Having The Most Sex?
“When it comes to sex, everyone has theories: You peak in your 20s, married people stop doing it, and once you hit 40, it’s all just hand-holding and good TV. But what’s actually true? I decided it was time to take to it to the people!”
Dara Katz, purewow.com, 5/1/2025
- How Often Do Couples Have Sex? Stats And What’s Normal
“On average, couples in the U.S. have sex once a week or less. The frequency of sex is greater in younger couples and tends to decline a lot after the age of 50. Single people and people without children tend to have more sex than people who are partnered or have children.”
Jay Cardiello, medically reviewed by Chioma Ndubisi, MD, verywellhealth.com, 4/3/2025
- Average Frequency Of Sex By Age Statistics
“- Unmarried adults engage in sexual activity about 14 times more yearly than their married counterparts.
– Between 2000 and 2018, sexual frequency in the US has declined in all age groups.”Brenton Barker, muscleandbrawn.com, 1/20/2025
- How Frequency Of Sex Differs For Married Couples
“Newsweek magazine found in its poll that married couples have sex about 68.5 times a year, or a little more than on average. The magazine also found out that as compared to unmarried people, married couples have 6.9 times more sex per year.”
Rachael Pace, reviewed By Angela Welch, LMFT, marriage.com, 1/17/2025
- Marriage And Men’s Health
“A major survey of 127,545 American adults found that married men are healthier than men who were never married or whose marriages ended in divorce or widowhood. Men who have marital partners also live longer than men without spouses; men who marry after age 25 get more protection than those who tie the knot at a younger age, and the longer a man stays married, the greater his survival advantage over his unmarried peers. But is marriage itself responsible for better health and longer life?”
Harvard Health Publishing, health.harvard.edu, 6/5/2019
- Sex And Finances Are Better For Married People. Don’t Worry, Singles — You Win Sleep
“TEAM SINGLE: On the other side, we have the unattached, those 18 and over who have never been married, as well as divorcees, widows, widowers and those who’re separated. There were 115.8 million single Americans in 2016, which is about 47.3% of the adult population. Forty-nine percent were women, and 45.5% were men. … No surprise here that married people have sex more often than singletons. Data compiled by Statista from the Journal of Sexual Medicine in 2009 shows that 71.32% of married people over 18 reported they had had sexual intercourse in the past 90 days. Only 11.32% of unattached people said they had ‘done the deed’ during that time.”
Amy Roberts, cnn.com, 2/14/2018
- It’s Not Just You. Americans Are Having Less Sex.
“Married couples generally have sex more often than single people, but that advantage is declining. Married couples had sex an average of 56 times a year in 2014, down from 67 in 1989. But more people are staying single — meaning there is less sex — and the couples who do walk down the aisle are making fewer trips into the bedroom. … Despite all the declines, one age group showed no interest in slowing down: people over 70. They had sex nearly 11 times during 2014, up from an average of 9.6 times in 1989.”
Matthew Haag, nytimes.com, 3/8/2017
- Who Has More Sex, Married People Or Single People?
“Although increased sexual frequency has long been considered an incentive for getting married, the biggest drop in sexual activity was actually among married couples themselves. Back in the early 1990s, the average American had sex about 60 to 62 times per year, but that number dropped to less than 53 times per year by 2014. Among married couples specifically, the drop was even more dramatic — from about 73 times per year in 1990 to 55 in 2014. This actually brings the sex lives married couples below people who’ve never been married, who have sex about 59 times per year as of 2014.”
Hannah Smothers, cosmopolitan.com, 3/7/2017
- The Sex Recession: The Share of Americans Having Regular Sex Keeps Dropping