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I hate to break this to you, but obese people have sex too.
Yes, but not as much.
Im mobile, and cant find sources atm, but doesnt obesity correlate to lower fertility rates as well?
Teen birth rate hits all-time low, led by 50% decline among Hispanics and blacks
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Re: Teen birth rate hits all-time low, led by 50% decline among Hispanics and blacks
#52I wonder how much lower rates of in-person interaction is a factor here.
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> because so many of them Is this based on your personal observation or are you referencing some known well established statistical fact.
Surely it's not a secret obesity rates have been rising steadily over time?
The CDC has been reporting decreases in childhood obesity rates over the past decade or so.
Re: Teen birth rate hits all-time low, led by 50% decline among Hispanics and blacks
#54Isn't it typically "teen pregnancy" rather than "teen birth"? Is the nuance between pregnancy and birth significant? Also, this wording can seem confusing (i.e. you can't give birth to a teen!).
From the perspective of someone who would have to run a study like this, a tremendous amount of pregnancies end before detection. To do actual pregnancy-initiation studies, you have to do absurdly intensive things like have women collect their urine on a frequent basis for analysis. Birth is a much less difficult outcome to collect for a large scale population estimate, as it usually just involves a data pull from vital records.
Re: Teen birth rate hits all-time low, led by 50% decline among Hispanics and blacks
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Seriously? It would have such an absolutely negligible effect that the only thing more conclusive is your bias. The article mentions that is is mostly believed to be a combination of investment in effective and health programs.
How can you say that with such certainty? People who feel fat don't want to have sex as often. You don't think that's true? Note: I said people who _feel_ fat, not people who _are_ fat.
On the other hand, there is evidence showing that overweight teens engage in riskier sexual practices. That's the problem with this who hypothesis - it's nothing more than an ungrounded "Just So Story" with no evidence.
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It's not so much that they'd rather watch porn. It's that porn sets their expectations regarding what sex is and with whom they expect to have sex. If I'm a 4 and I won't settle for less than an 7 (which is a step down from what porn is teaching me about averages), it's likely I'm not going to father many children.
If you're a 14 year old boy wouldn't you go for pretty much anything you could get?
Yep, that was the case for me. But two things: One, it's not the boys who decide when sex happens, for the most part, and two, the amount of effort a boy (or a man) is willing to put into wooing a woman depends in some part on how attractive she is to him.
Re: Teen birth rate hits all-time low, led by 50% decline among Hispanics and blacks
#57Re: Teen birth rate hits all-time low, led by 50% decline among Hispanics and blacks
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This theory doesn't make sense (and I read three articles that repeat what you say). If you use contraception, you won't have pregnancy. So why are the rates down? Health? Then why are 25% of kids obese (I looked up those figures). I can only assume that technology has created more social isolation.
> technology has created more social isolation This. If you think that technology has done a good job of informing teens about the risks of pregnancy and the importance of contraception, you are probably being far too optimistic in the face of a dire situation (i.e. mass estrangement).
> a dire situation (i.e. mass estrangement)
I don't know - could there be some observation bias given the forum we're discussing this in? It also undermines digital relationships which have their own positives aspects. Here we are having a civil conversation about an important topic without having to commit to meeting at a certain time or place or without knowing what shared interests we have.
The internet can act as a social lubricant of sorts which is valuable. The legacy social lubricant is alcohol.
Re: Teen birth rate hits all-time low, led by 50% decline among Hispanics and blacks
#59Re: Teen birth rate hits all-time low, led by 50% decline among Hispanics and blacks
#60I wonder how big a role obesity plays in all of this. It may be that teens are having less sex because so many of them have effectively taken themselves out of the sexual marketplace.
Seriously? It would have such an absolutely negligible effect that the only thing more conclusive is your bias. The article mentions that is is mostly believed to be a combination of investment in effective and health programs.
>Seriously? It would have such an absolutely negligible effect that the only thing more conclusive is your bias.
You sound pretty sure of yourself.
Why is that?