Professor Kaye Wellings, of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said the recession may have had an impact on the minority who are unemployed but it may also have driven those in work to toil harder.
"There's a strong relationship between unemployment and low sexual function, according to the literature," she said.
"That is to do with low self-esteem, depression. At the other end of the scale iPads and computers have all breached the boundary between the home and the bedroom."
The decline in British people having sex is explained in part by demographic change, with fewer people in the population married or cohabiting so having less opportunity to have sex, although even among people who live with a partner sexual frequency has fallen.
イギリス人のセックスの頻度が減っている、と。失業と性機能減退の関係がある、ともいわれるし、また、低い自己評価、や鬱状態、ソーシャルネットワークにうつつをぬかしている、などとの影響もあるのではないか、と。
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Why are Britons having less sex?
26 November 2013 Last updated at 17:14 GMT
同じネタで、日本人は変人扱いだったが、自国の国民について、変人扱いしないのですね。
人権教育がなされているのでしょうか? 日本では?と言っていたイギリス人にそのままその言葉を返してやりたい。