Commentators on sexless marriages have decided that fewer than ten times a year might as well be nothing. Who knows how they came up with that number? Fifteen to 20 percent of couples apparently belong to this category. So if you have sex eleven times a year, consider yourself blessed. If you want to see the fate you’ve narrowly escaped, check out the popular Reddit forum deadbedrooms (membership in the tens of thousands). Big data analyst Seth Stephens-Davidowitz reports in the New York Times that Google searches for “sexless marriage” outnumber searches related to any other marital issue.
