This is a recopy of what I originally posted about the article ...
============================================================ Increasing numbers of middle-aged men are going off sex, according to relationship experts.
Counselling and sex therapy charity Relate says it has seen a 40 per cent increase in men who simply cannot be bothered to make love to their wives and partners. ============================================================
What I think people are not grasping is that (1) it is a significant increase (40%) - or decrease, depending on how you look at it - and (2) it is the fact that it's the men's partners/wives. Those two things, IMHO, are the crucial points of this article. What this is telling me (at least) is that something dramatically has happened in a short time frame that is causing men to lose interest in "making love" to their partners. The article DOES say "these men haven’t simply gone off their partner but off sex altogether", but I think that's an inconclusive statement since (1) they are already committed to a woman, and (2) the study was about men with partners, and does not include single/unattached men.