Americans are having less sex and researchers are blaming Netflix
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#2Netflix and chill
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#3If we're going with hunches (as in the article) free streaming porn seems more likely than streaming conventional entertainment like Netflix. I mean, both have taken off over the relevant period, but porn is obviously a bit more closely tied to sex.
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#4It's the phones, not Netflix. Phone use is a constant source or ire in relationships.
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#5With shows that good, fewer and fewer couples manage to reach the "chill" part before falling asleep.
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#6Honestly I would be depressed it that was the field of my research.
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#7I don't know what's more ridiculous in this article, the "hunch", the fact that Netflix is never mentioned by name (while Hulu is) or the apex of stupid tech junk called "the smart condom" which auto-plays at the side...
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#8I would attribute it more the glut of free online porn than netflix. Men consume porn far more than women because men are more visually stimulated than women. This has been verified by numerous scientific studies. In many ways, women can't compete with porn. Hundreds of years ago, the average man would be delighted to get sex from the average woman in his local community. Through porn, your average guy has seen more naked women than all his ancestors combined. These women are far more physically attractive, sex-hungry and available than anyone he could meet in person. Today, after seeing countless videos of the the most physically attractive women imaginable, perfectly suited to his preference, taste and sexually proclivity, the average woman seems like a lame approximation for what can be accessed readily online. Men are far less willing to deal with all the pitfalls, annoyance and cost of dating when an approximation for sex, like porn, is much less costly and easily available.
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#9I would attribute it more the glut of free online porn than netflix. Men consume porn far more than women because men are more visually stimulated than women. This has been verified by numerous scientific studies. In many ways, women can't compete with porn. Hundreds of years ago, the average man would be delighted to get sex from the average woman in his local community. Through porn, your average guy has seen more…
This is horrifying and sad... and also can’t possibly be true for the general population.
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#10I'd have imagined Facebook usage, if anything. And to the degree that they allow to use it even more, smartphones.