SEXCIDE

What if the most dangerous epidemic of our time has nothing to do with a virus?

Across the world, adults are having less sex, forming fewer relationships, and retreating from intimacy at a scale never recorded in human history. South Korea's fertility rate has collapsed to 0.72. Fifty-seven percent of Generation Z Americans have never been in a romantic relationship. Chronic loneliness now carries the same mortality risk as smoking fifteen cigarettes a day. And nobody is talking about it with the seriousness it deserves.

Sexcide is the book that names what is happening.

Written by Dr. Tonny Gobanga, a marriage and family therapist and a sex therapist, public health scholar, this is a forensic, compassionate, and at times darkly funny account of how three structural forces have dismantled the human capacity for sustained intimate connection: the collapse of the institutions that once held relationships in place, the rise of digital technologies designed to simulate intimacy without providing it, and the psychological withdrawal of a generation that has learned, rationally and painfully, to protect itself from a world that no longer supports the risk of genuine closeness.

Sexcide moves from the consulting room to the demographic data, from the neuroscience of touch to the political science of lonely young men, from the ruins of South Korea's pro-natalist programme to the specific and underreported African story that no other book on this subject has told. It does not preach. It does not moralize. It diagnoses - with the precision of a clinician, the range of a scholar, and the honesty of someone who has sat with the human cost of this crisis for twenty years.

This is not a book about what is wrong with people. It is a book about what is wrong with the conditions people are living in - and what it will take to change them.

The intimacy recession is real. It has a name now. And a pattern that can be named can be addressed.