There are plenty of reasons to be fearful for the future of humanity, but this latest Gen Z trend in the bedroom might be one of the clearest indicators yet.
People often say that Gen Z are having far less sex than their predecessors - and the data backs this up.
While the older generations are busy enjoying themselves at swinger cruises and festivals, a study last year found that 35 percent of 22 to 24-year-old men hadn't had sex in the last three months between 2022 to 2023, while it's 31 percent for women.
And now it seems that, even when Gen Z get down and dirty, the way they do it is very, very strange.
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A baffling new survey taken by American college students shows a staggering one in three participants admitted to scrolling through their phones during sex.
Now, I don't want to blow my own trumpet too much here, but that is truly a foreign concept to me, and if it did happen, you'd probably just give up hope of being intimate ever again.
But it seems as if it's a regular occurrence for some, at least across the pond.
100,000 US students aged 18 and over took part in a survey conducted through the college campus social media apps Yik Yak and Sidechat, who quizzed them on their sex lives and social media use.
Shockingly, 35 percent of participants admitted they have whipped out their phones to send a text or even watch a quick TikTok video while doing the deed.
24 students even confessed to stopping, mid-sex, to text their mums.
Over on Reddit, several young people complained their partners couldn't keep their hands off their phones in the throes of passion.
One uni student wrote of his girlfriend of one year: "While she's on top of me she decides to lean forward over my head and started to use her phone in the middle of it.
"I look up and see what she's doing and I feel this sudden wave of embarrassment and humiliation. I trusted my girlfriend and we've been through a lot but for some reason this hurt more than anything we've been through."
And men are apparently at it too. Another Reddit user wrote that during sex she 'looked up at one point, to see him LOOKING AT HIS PHONE'.
She went on: "I was like, wtf! I said to him, 'Don’t check your phone while we’re having sex!'
"And apparently, he was waiting on an important reply FROM HIS MOTHER. So important that he thought he could get away checking his phone without me noticing during sex…Am I crazy? Wtf!!!
"I felt so incredibly disrespected that I burst into tears."
The study also found that a remarkable number of people were willing to have sex with their roommates in the room with them, while nearly three-quarters suggested that they'd met their partner in person, which is at least one positive to take from this.
Topics: Gen Z, Social Media, Technology
James Moorhouse