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You need to resubmit this with a better headline: People prefer scrolling to sex enough that using the iPhone explains up to half of the U.S. birth decline since 2011.
Is porn birth control ? Yes it is. But why is porn free and ubiquitous ? Surely there's an enormous amount of money behind it, but where's the ROI ?
If you are in the category that would sit and watch porn in the public, then you already wouldn't need birth control.
Apple has better data. They know who has an iPhone, and they almost certainly know if they have kids. That info is probably available via ad brokers.
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>it costs $1200000 to raise baby What exactly are you planning to do with all that money anyway? Consume things?
The right question is "to what age". Get all McKinsey and calculate a TCO of a baby from conception to end-of-uni. $1.2M is low-end even for eastern EU, it's more like twice that. 0-to-23. $100K/year. This what a baby costs.
this comes to show that sex is just entertainment and it is being crowded out from all sides
There's a subgenre of dystopian sci-fi where the premise is that reality in general is destined to be eclipsed by matrix-like hyper-realities, and that people will vastly prefer those and cede reality to whoever's left. I guess the way this could work itself out is that if you prefer a hyper-reality, your genes do not pass on, and someone else's do, and within some number of generations we bounce back in response to…
https://blog.est.im/2026/stdin-09
ppl are now having better options than raising a baby.
this comes to show that sex is just entertainment and it is being crowded out from all sides
There's a subgenre of dystopian sci-fi where the premise is that reality in general is destined to be eclipsed by matrix-like hyper-realities, and that people will vastly prefer those and cede reality to whoever's left. I guess the way this could work itself out is that if you prefer a hyper-reality, your genes do not pass on, and someone else's do, and within some number of generations we bounce back in response to…
You need to resubmit this with a better headline: People prefer scrolling to sex enough that using the iPhone explains up to half of the U.S. birth decline since 2011.
IMO the problem isn't that we choose scrolling over sex, but that having a smartphone makes independence easier, which removes opportunities and motivation to meet people. People talk to each other mainly when they need to solve practical problems. Remove practical problems and you remove social interaction.
I remember clearly that when my ex fixed my bike I had a strong impulse of being attracted to him. But realistically, when my bike is broken, I'd rather take it to a bike shop than ask someone for help and then do favors in exchange.