Sexual satisfaction also depends on income: the case of Jaime
Sexual satisfaction plummets among the poor, especially women and migrants. An El País study reveals the impact of income on intimacy.
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Erotic inequality: when your wallet also decides what happens in bed
A 62-year-old early retiree in Palma, separated, lives in a shared flat and cannot bring his Ecuadorian girlfriend home to stay the night. She lives in as a domestic worker. Only now and then can they afford a cheap hotel room. This is the example that opens El País's latest report on a phenomenon they call "erotic inequality": sensual satisfaction collapses among low-income groups, and women and migrants are hit the hardest.
The research, published on 4 June 2026, shatters the myth that sensual performance is purely an individual matter. The socioeconomic factor weighs as heavily as the biological or psychological one. Renting with no space for intimacy, jobs that leave no room for a personal life, or precarity that turns sens into a luxury. It is not a lack of desire: it is a lack of resources.
Responses to the article were not long in coming. While some see it as a painful confirmation of class struggle, others dismiss it as victimhood and wonder whether cultural factors or personal choices might not also be at play. But the data —and Jaime's testimony— point to a real structural problem. The erotic gap is another face of economic inequality.
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A 62-year-old early retiree in Palma, separated, lives in a shared flat and cannot bring his Ecuadorian girlfriend home to stay the night. She lives in as a domestic worker. Only now and then can they afford a cheap hotel room. This is the example that opens El País's latest report on a phenomenon they call "erotic inequality": sensual satisfaction collapses among low-income groups, and women and migrants are hit the hardest.
The research, published on 4 June 2026, shatters the myth that sensual performance is purely an individual matter. The socioeconomic factor weighs as heavily as the biological or psychological one. Renting with no space for intimacy, jobs that leave no room for a personal life, or precarity that turns sens into a luxury. It is not a lack of desire: it is a lack of resources.
Responses to the article were not long in coming. While some see it as a painful confirmation of class struggle, others dismiss it as victimhood and wonder whether cultural factors or personal choices might not also be at play. But the data —and Jaime's testimony— point to a real structural problem. The erotic gap is another face of economic inequality.
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