SMARTEN up.

That's the blunt message to young men from one race car-driving, helicopter-piloting Sunshine Coast businessman who has been blown away by the number of well-dressed young women he sees out and about without male companions.

So noticeable has the phenomenon been that Graeme Gillies of Blue Tongue Helicopters, a respected photographer and video photographer, began documenting what he saw.

It meant when he saw Wednesday night's episode of The Feed about a report younger people were having less sex than their predecessors, he was not surprised.

In a Facebook letter to friends he wrote:

"Watching a bit of "the feed” tonight they were saying that having sex was declining with younger people these days.

"I can understand that.

"I did a survey of my own here on the sunshine coast.

"At many various restaurants I pointed out to staff that the majority of patrons were young women.

"Well dressed, glamorous, having a good time with other women, laughing and enjoying themselves.

"Very few men.

"Why not?

"Because when a well dressed glamour was with a male, he was a scruffy dirty tee shirted oaf with no sex appeal to anyone.

"I'm a woman man.

"I know that if you don't care about your appearance you don't care about anything, let alone the woman you're with.

"I wish I was young I could show you how.”

Mr Gillies, who trains young pilots on the Coast as well as on some of Australia's largest cattle properties, builds race cars in his spare time.

He also does delivery flights of choppers across the country documenting in video form on the way the drought and floods that mark the extremes of weather conditions.

He says he is sure women go out together because they want to dress and look beautiful. They leave the blokes behind, Graeme says, because they are likely to dress in a pair of thongs and a dirty t-shirt.