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17-11-2018, 08:03 PM | #1 | |||
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Triumph of the Weird
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Very good article from the Atlantic. It's very long so I recommend reading it on their site instead of here.
Source: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine...ession/573949/ Exherpt: Quote:
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17-11-2018, 08:07 PM | #2 | |||
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17-11-2018, 08:12 PM | #3 | |||
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People used to have sex bc there was nothing else to do, we’ve got the world at our fingers what do we need sex for!
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17-11-2018, 08:15 PM | #4 | |||
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I'd rather have a rub
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17-11-2018, 08:16 PM | #5 | |||
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We're not slags
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17-11-2018, 09:02 PM | #6 | ||
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Once you've done it once, why do it again? With an entire world to explore and careers to pursue there is no point in treading over the same ground twice
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17-11-2018, 09:04 PM | #7 | |||
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like the boys
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Brexit tbh
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17-11-2018, 09:09 PM | #8 | |||
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You know my methods
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When I was their age I would bang a crack in a barbers floor, the lazy brats. If I didn't have a host of good books to read on the kindle I'd show them a thing or two.
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17-11-2018, 09:09 PM | #9 | |||
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Constant stimulation though is not really a good thing imo. We need to be bored at least some of the time in order to force the mind to become more innovative. Otherwise, we just tend to regurgitate more, and our attitudes/thoughts become really repetitive... this is bad if we are facing some mental health crisis of some kind. So yeah, sex is not as important as the mags make it... but... the lack of it may suggest a decline in connection wtih the world around us. Though I think some people are genetically pre-disposed to not see the world in a sexy way, and that's not really up for debate I think... |
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17-11-2018, 09:10 PM | #10 | |||
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On the other hand (ha), it's lead to a decline in teenage birth rates which can only be a good thing... Farrah Abraham did that?
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17-11-2018, 09:11 PM | #11 | |||
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Sex sounds boring tbh.
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17-11-2018, 09:13 PM | #12 | |||
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17-11-2018, 09:14 PM | #13 | |||
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You know my methods
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Maybe porn did it?
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17-11-2018, 09:18 PM | #14 | |||
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17-11-2018, 10:29 PM | #15 | |||
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Hm it is long maru but as someone who has been raped as a child in south africa ....somethings about this disturb me
60% of adults under the age of 35 accorrding to this live with their parents..for me that is not true in ireland or South Africa. Rates of childhood abuse have deceases in recent decades... I again have to disagee. i know I will be called a feminazi.....For me it hasn't decreased ...but it is now called "banter" and sure the lad was only trying to cop a feel.Will look into this further Maru and those behind it |
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17-11-2018, 10:33 PM | #16 | ||
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17-11-2018, 10:34 PM | #17 | ||
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The obvious answer is that there's now limitless other varieties of distraction / entertainment, available on demand 24/7. Mobile Internet, YouTube/Netflix, games have come on exponentially, online gaming (Call of Duty etc., now Fortnite)... Less in-person social interaction in general thanks to technology. A decline in physical contact is inevitable.
I'm in two minds about whether it's a good or bad thing really. Probably a good thing if it's just that kids are having less random sex just because they're bored, but a bad thing if it's because they're not forming as many actual relationships and thus not bothered about physical contact. I was a good wee boy when I was a teenager, I didn't have sex until I was in a proper relationship . Couple of cheeky blowjobs and quite a lot of... Err... Heavy petting... But no P in V. I was so pure. |
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17-11-2018, 11:00 PM | #18 | |||
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My husband though, he had some promiscuous exes. Some that were quite pushy about it in a dysfunctional way (I think), but it didn't feel right for him at the time. He had female friends who had asked him to play a "bouncer" of sorts for when they were working a with photographer. I think it was for S&M. But he wasn't interested himself. People have always said he had a guardian vibe to him. I have another friend a bit older than me (male), but still Millennial, that had one experience outside of marriage and after that, he said it didn't feel right and he felt terrible about it and would never do it again (it was also not good sex). That actually ruined prospects for him romantically speaking, because he was seeking something a little deeper than just lust. Until he finally found someone very similar to him idealogically and then they got married and now have a child. It's very interesting to me, because we would expect that with sex being so prominent in our lives in our media, we'd all be living sex lives that are more akin to Hollywood. Women searching for lustful encounters and obsessed with d***, especially the way some portions of the women's "empowerment" movement went in the 90's, early 00's... I've heard a few people say both in media and irl, that the younger generation (younger than Millennials) may be moving back the other direction, towards non-transactional/non-casual sex and maybe even traditional values. I didn't really believe that, but after thinking about it maybe there is something to that sentiment given the statistics and the epidemic of mental health trends... |
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17-11-2018, 11:15 PM | #19 | |||
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the fear of genital warts?
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17-11-2018, 11:20 PM | #20 | ||
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17-11-2018, 11:31 PM | #21 | |||
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17-11-2018, 11:33 PM | #22 | |||
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18-11-2018, 12:47 AM | #23 | ||
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18-11-2018, 12:51 AM | #24 | ||
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sex drive down, mental health problems up
but of course is the young ones fault again nothing to do with dysfunctional world created by older generations, they are never to blame, of course |
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18-11-2018, 12:52 AM | #25 | |||
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Too much effort most of the time
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