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But also people are now more: A) more sexual with who they date B) are friends more with the opposite sex. I still recall that when I was in high school, my mother was confused how…

Eh, it depends on who you hang around and how you've grown up - what you stated is just one specific example. The somewhat ambiguous way he described it "The term is widely in use,…

lol, creep perhaps. But hardly confident :p

This may just boil down to semantics, but I would call the hypothetical "confident man" you are talking about a confident, socially skilled man. My "confident creep" has inner conf…

True, women are more likely to get it from a man than vice-versa, but my number (1 in 10k) is not exaggerating all that much. http://hivinsite.ucsf.edu/insite?page=ask-05-10-11 "Tw…

Well, for the 14% of the population that works on, sure. Confidence is key, but there is a difference between a confident stud and a confident creep.

*Feynman :p sex-only-for-producing children is a bit of a stretch. The link to Ebert's blog post above describes pre-1960s society pretty well; couples were sexual, but if they wer…

Agreed. For the record, it is very hard to contract HIV from vaginal sex. (< 1/10000 per-instance chance)

Interesting. My talks (at least with older people who went to college) have given me quite a different perspective - where people would typically marry very young (often out of col…

He was married during that entire time (until 1945). This also doesn't take place until after he was at Cornell. Probably around 1946 or 1947.

This post teaches us all a valuable lesson: always frame the question before, not after, asking it. People stop reading after the '?'

Just out of curiosity: Is Feynman using 'sleep with' as a euphemism for sex? I'm guessing that, this story being written in the 1940s/50s, pre-sexual revolution, that it is more re…