I think there is a possibility that sexless relationships or relationships where it is very infrequent will become the norm. Sex sells everything. Its in your face. Only a certain very specific look is sexy. Porn is free and is everywhere. Sex is boring for the most part. Its easy enough to get if you want it. The fact I can have it and I can just open up an app and order it in like a pizza and chuck them back for recycling rather takes the shine off. Then of course one has to be sex ready......shaved, plucked, plumped, sprayed, distorted into a cartoonish version of ultra femininity only to have some porn addled tosser blame you when his limp dick won't work, because its only used to him and his predilection for extremes, of either aesthetic or act. Kink is the new sex, because sex is now so boring. Porn is now so much part of every day life that it is boring too, unless its something new and novel. Its like drinking, it was so much fun before the age of 18, after.....not so much.
I am not of course talking about myself. I'm too old to think that sexless relationships are normal. Being normal, and being the norm are two different things!
Its all very sad. capitalism has high jacked almost all that is good in its pursuit of profits and value. It can not concern itself with just producing "stuff" selling stuff and keeping us busy 9-5. It seeks to expand in time, place, space and create new nodes of exchange where non before existed. It has moved beyond commodity fetishism where the relations between people are obscured to highjacking social production, ie the way in which we inhabit our own selves and relate to others. It produces us, and in so doing so we lose a little bit of our ability to really connect with other people. Whether that be sexually, empathically, spiritually..........and maybe it is for the best, after all we are even losing our ability to communicate effectively and give a stuff about others. I have even read thread after thread telling me its normal for parents to shout and lose their rag at small children, dogs are devils, animals are dirty, parents are a pain, their work mates are shits, their neighbours are nasty and "What about Meeeeeeeeeeeee"
I'm cynical. If people are prepared to vote based of charisma, sit back whilst others freeze, benefit bash the sick or those with disability, and care so little for others, eventually it will start to effect the very way in which we communicate and the degree to which we care, and the way we express ourselves even with those closest to us.