Have More Sex, Please
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Have More Sex, Please
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#2I suspect the decline is associated with the unrealistic hyper-attractive humans we see in media. Insecurity about body image seems to be on the rise. And then there's stuff like this: https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2022/s...
Anecdotally, I've noticed young men seem more insecure about taking their shirts off in public, even in contexts like at the beach, than they were in my generation (a couple decades ago). If you think your body is some gross thing that others shouldn't be subjected to, and that nudity is extremely awkward and embarrassing, I imagine sex is rather anxiety-inducing.
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#3I suspect the decline is associated with the unrealistic hyper-attractive humans we see in media. Insecurity about body image seems to be on the rise. And then there's stuff like this: https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2022/s... Anecdotally, I've noticed young men seem more insecure about taking their shirts off in public, even in contexts like at the beach, than they were in my generation (a coup…
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#4I suspect the decline is associated with the unrealistic hyper-attractive humans we see in media. Insecurity about body image seems to be on the rise. And then there's stuff like this: https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2022/s... Anecdotally, I've noticed young men seem more insecure about taking their shirts off in public, even in contexts like at the beach, than they were in my generation (a coup…
> Anecdotally, I've noticed young men seem more insecure about taking their shirts off in public
How do you know it's due to insecurity and not growing awareness of the dangers of ultraviolet radiation?
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#5The article links to results from the General Social Survey (https://www.docdroid.net/Ow9GtjA/tables-sda3-pdf#page=2). The numbers for 2014 are remarkably different from the other years, showing for example 3% for "no sex at all" vs 20-25% in all other years. That can't be right. Does anyone know more?
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#6I suspect the decline is associated with the unrealistic hyper-attractive humans we see in media. Insecurity about body image seems to be on the rise. And then there's stuff like this: https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2022/s... Anecdotally, I've noticed young men seem more insecure about taking their shirts off in public, even in contexts like at the beach, than they were in my generation (a coup…
> Anecdotally, I've noticed young men seem more insecure about taking their shirts off in public How do you know it's due to insecurity and not growing awareness of the dangers of ultraviolet radiation?
Are we more aware of the risks of UV than 20 years ago? Maybe it's because I have a skin type that burns in 10 minutes but I was about as concerned about that then as now.
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#7I don't get the central premise of the article. Why would a NYT author asking "please" be the deciding factor in whether me and someone else has sex? It's something we do for us and ourselves, not because an author is upset at statistics. The author correctly points out that having sex is a political and social statement, but then fails to understand what motivates most people to make such statements.
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> Anecdotally, I've noticed young men seem more insecure about taking their shirts off in public How do you know it's due to insecurity and not growing awareness of the dangers of ultraviolet radiation?
Are we more aware of the risks of UV than 20 years ago? Maybe it's because I have a skin type that burns in 10 minutes but I was about as concerned about that then as now.
Well, I am old so perhaps my anecdotal opinions are invalid. That said, I would have been young and in shape enough 20 years ago to take my shirt off and I would not have considered UV a real risk. My mother and girlfriends may have started to use real sunscreen instead of baby oil but they were still heading to the beach for rays and I still basically ignored the stuff. I feel like even younger people view the sun as a much more serious danger these days.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Anecdotally, I've noticed young men seem more insecure about taking their shirts off in public How do you know it's due to insecurity and not growing awareness of the dangers of ultraviolet radiation?
Are we more aware of the risks of UV than 20 years ago? Maybe it's because I have a skin type that burns in 10 minutes but I was about as concerned about that then as now.
Robocop was making 2000 SPF jokes in 1997. That means that the risk of UV was something that people were “aware” of but the pop-culture take was that high-SPF sunscreens were a bit of a joke and “a terrible future” where you had to take it seriously was something to make fun of as well.
As I recall, the high-SPF sunscreen in the Robocop spoof included a warning that the sunscreen itself was carcinogenic. This is more evidence that that the intent was not to warn of the very real risks of the sun but rather to take shots at the rapid increase in SPF ratings ( going from 2 and 4 being normal and weirdos buying 8 to 30 and 45 being common on the shelf if memory serves ).
Edit: sorry, it was 5000 SPF https://youtu.be/8oJzfmWO3CU