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Re: Explaining Sex Rate Changes

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Post by michaelmrose »

kilroy123 wrote: post #84
freyir wrote: post #26

As the article points out, fewer young men are having sex, but roughly the same number of young women are having sex. I wonder if dating apps (Tinder, Bumble, etc.) are leading women to have sex with a smaller cohort of desirable men. Years ago, OkCupid noted that a small percentage of men get an overwhelming percentage of messages from women. With the rise of "swipe right, swipe left" mobile dating apps, where peopl…

This is absolutely the case. Sadly, we can see this kind of winner-takes-all dynamic play out in every part of our society now. This worries me greatly.

This presumes that normal status/appearance actually can't find mates instead of merely not getting as much casual sex.

Re: Explaining Sex Rate Changes

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Post by Mirioron »

Macross8299 wrote: post #157
ajkjk wrote: post #108

Discussions like this drive me crazy. It's not hard to see what it is about society that's making so many people not have sex, and it's not, like, some subtle market effect involving their attractiveness. No matter how much you want find a market effect, it's due to _human stuff_, like people's actual lives and problems, not their behavior in some sex economy. There is nothing even close to an economy around sex. The…

>No matter how much you want find a market effect, it's due to _human stuff_, like people's actual lives and problems. There is nothing even close to an economy around sex This kind of wishy washy thing I'm sure feels nice to say but doesn't seem to me to have any real explanatory power except at an individual level, which is not what this discussion is about. I bet you anything that if I had access to tinder backend…

Somebody did actually create a Lorenz curve based on Tinder data: https://medium.com/@worstonlinedater/tinder-experiments-ii-g...

I can't speak to the accuracy of the article though.

Re: Explaining Sex Rate Changes

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Post by 2muchcoffeeman »

fratlas wrote: post #37
freyir wrote: post #26

As the article points out, fewer young men are having sex, but roughly the same number of young women are having sex. I wonder if dating apps (Tinder, Bumble, etc.) are leading women to have sex with a smaller cohort of desirable men. Years ago, OkCupid noted that a small percentage of men get an overwhelming percentage of messages from women. With the rise of "swipe right, swipe left" mobile dating apps, where peopl…

I've noticed this disparity within my friend circles. The objectively attractive men match/sleep with multiple woman a month where almost all of the men with near average looks get approximately zero matches. Interesting indeed. My female friends match with almost every male regardless.

I reactivated my OkCupid profile recently. I’m as undesirable as I always was. There’s nothing to do but to laugh about it.

Re: Explaining Sex Rate Changes

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Post by novia »

anonytrary wrote: post #158
novia wrote: post #150

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> The best course of action here is to flag the offending comments, rather than the entire thread. The best course of action for my mental well-being is to flag the whole thread and move on without reading the comments. Unfortunately I'm already in here, so I am flagging the particularly egregious comments, as well as vouching for the dead comments that I think were unjustly buried. > Just because something gets trol…

> The best course of action for my mental well-being is to flag the whole thread and move on without reading the comments. Guidelines: > Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it. Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead. If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did. Your comments here suggest that you have a personal proble…

> If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did.

Oops! I'll keep this in mind for the future. But the cat's out of the bag already here so...

> Articles should not be flagged for how their words and numbers make us feel, they should be flagged if they are off-topic, spam, or not intellectually stimulating.

I maintain that I am flagging this because I consider it off-topic and not intellectually stimulating.

Re: Explaining Sex Rate Changes

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Post by EdSharkey »

meko wrote: post #174
arvinsim wrote: post #160

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> It also seems to me that if a sizeable chunk of young men end up feeling undesirable, unwanted, and frustrated, the consequences won't be pretty, we all lose. Pretty much. This is the demographic most susceptible to radicalization.

See: isis to alt-right

so tiresome

Re: Explaining Sex Rate Changes

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Post by chosenbreed37 »

michaelmrose wrote: post #177
anchpop wrote: post #140

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Like him or not, but it's hard to deny that Kanye West is a talented rapper. I'm not exactly sure what point you're making here.

Why is it hard to deny? His work appears empty of real meaning, vapid, lacking in poetry and worth in all respects. Further he is packaging himself as a product not merely his art. His bad art is wrapped in a stupid person with nonsensical views. Its like a shit sandwich wrapped in a brown paper bag peed on by a hobo.

You have a right to challenge the claim. I would say that he certainly has something. It appears that millions around the world enjoy(ed) listening to his music, watching his videos or going to his concerts. It's all in the eyes or ears of the beholder.

Re: Explaining Sex Rate Changes

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Post by [deleted] »

2muchcoffeeman wrote: post #183
fratlas wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've noticed this disparity within my friend circles. The objectively attractive men match/sleep with multiple woman a month where almost all of the men with near average looks get approximately zero matches. Interesting indeed. My female friends match with almost every male regardless.

I reactivated my OkCupid profile recently. I’m as undesirable as I always was. There’s nothing to do but to laugh about it.

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Re: Explaining Sex Rate Changes

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Post by [deleted] »

freyir wrote: post #146
anchpop wrote: post #140

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Like him or not, but it's hard to deny that Kanye West is a talented rapper. I'm not exactly sure what point you're making here.

I deny he's a talented rapper (that was easy) but I would concede that he's a world-class producer.

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Re: Explaining Sex Rate Changes

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Post by bubblewrap »

titanix2 wrote: post #116
freyir wrote: post #26

As the article points out, fewer young men are having sex, but roughly the same number of young women are having sex. I wonder if dating apps (Tinder, Bumble, etc.) are leading women to have sex with a smaller cohort of desirable men. Years ago, OkCupid noted that a small percentage of men get an overwhelming percentage of messages from women. With the rise of "swipe right, swipe left" mobile dating apps, where peopl…

That’s exactly the theory developed by circles like the red pill. More access to potential partners with less social control lead to a winner take all situation. In addition, and it is addressed in the OP, women try to get partners which are higher on the social scale while men mostly focus on beauty.

Women would rather be the second wife of George Clooney than the first wife of Joe Average. Simple as that.

Re: Explaining Sex Rate Changes

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Post by King-Aaron »

rosser wrote: post #105
abledon wrote: post #86

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Kids like a stable environment to grow up in too — messes up their psychological development when there is a revolving door for new ‘daddys’ and ‘mommys’ . We are for promiscuity at certain stages of life but.... yes the costs haha

Polyamorous != promiscuous.

Anecdotes for sure, but Polyamorous == promiscuous is the norm in those circles from what I've seen over the last two decades.
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