The average Canadian buys 70 new pieces of clothing each year, about 60 of which ultimately wind up in a landfill (Thrift stores only sell one in four pieces of donated clothing.)
According to a British study, the average article of women’s clothing is worn seven times before it’s discarded.
 
Each year, Canadian adults spend about $9,000 for consumer packaged goods – about twice as much as 25 years ago.
We replace our smartphones every 25 months.
 
Does this thing I own spark joy for me? If not, it is to be discarded.

From 1991 to 2017, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Youth Risk Behavior Survey finds, the percentage of high-school students who’d had intercourse dropped from 54 to 40 percent.
In a series of journal articles and in her latest book, iGen, she notes that today’s young adults are on track to have fewer sex partners than members of the two preceding generations.
People now in their early 20s are two and a half times as likely to be abstinent as Gen Xers were at that age; 15 percent report having had no sex since they reached adulthood.
 
None of the many experts I interviewed for this piece seriously challenged the idea that the average young adult circa 2018 is having less sex than his or her counterparts of decades past.
Nor did anyone doubt that this reality is out of step with public perception—most of us still think that other people are having a lot more sex than they actually are.
 
About 60 percent of adults under age 35 now live without a spouse or a partner.
 
One of the most respected sex studies in the world, Britain’s National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles, reported in 2001 that people ages 16 to 44 were having sex more than six times a month on average.
By 2012, the rate had dropped to fewer than five times.
 
From 1992 to 2014, the share of American men who reported masturbating in a given week doubled, to 54 percent, and the share of women more than tripled, to 26 percent
 
A 2014 study finding that Millennial college students weren’t having more sex or sexual partners than their Gen X predecessors.
We hook up because we have no social skills. We have no social skills because we hook up.
 
Another said that when she was in high school, her parents, who are both professionals with advanced degrees, had discouraged relationships on the grounds that they might diminish her focus. Even today, in graduate school, she was finding the attitude hard to shake. “Now I need to finish school, I need to get a practice going, I need to do this and this, and then I’ll think about love. But by 30, you’re like, What is love? What’s it like to be in love?”
 
Today, Tinder says it logs 1.6 billion swipes a day, and just 26 million matches.
 
According to a November 2017 Economist/YouGov poll, 17 percent of Americans ages 18 to 29 now believe that a man inviting a woman out for a drink “always” or “usually” constitutes sexual harassment.
 
This idea came up many times in my conversations with people who described sex and dating lives that had gone into a deep freeze.
Some used the term paradox of choice; others referred to option paralysis (a term popularized by Black Mirror); still others invoked fobo (“fear of a better option”).
 
Back in 1992, the big University of Chicago survey reported that 20 percent of women in their late 20s had tried anal sex; in 2012, the NSSHB found a rate twice that.
 
Millennials don’t like to get naked—if you go to the gym now, everyone under 30 will put their underwear on under the towel, which is a massive cultural shift.
Fitness facilities across the country are said to be renovating locker rooms in response to the demands of younger clients.$
 
He 2017 iteration of Match.com’s Singles in America survey found that single Millennials were 66 percent less likely than members of older generations to enjoy receiving oral sex.
 
If a man or woman has not had intercourse by age 25, there is a reasonable chance [he or she] will remain a virgin at least until age 45.
 
We live in unprecedented physical safety, and yet something about modern life, very recent modern life, has triggered in many of us autonomic responses associated with danger—anxiety, constant scanning of our surroundings, fitful sleep.
Under these circumstances, survival trumps desire.
 
Along with posture and brain size, sexuality completes the trinity of the decisive aspects in which the ancestors of humans and great apes diverged.

In May, the median market rent for a one-bedroom apartment reached an all-time high of $3,700 a month, according to the rental site Zumper.
Meanwhile, the city saw a 17% increase in its homeless population between 2017 and 2019.
 
The arguments against San Francisco are manifold: it’s too expensive even for people making six-figure salaries, it’s dangerous and depressingly unequal, and, increasingly, it’s kind of boring.
 
“Everyone I met was only interested in their jobs, and their jobs weren’t very interesting,” she said of her time in San Francisco.
“I get it, you’re a developer for Uber, I’ve met a million of you.”