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  • @glimse
    4•4 months ago

    Outside of the conservative circles where it doesn’t matter anyway…hasn’t sex positivity only been in the rise? At the very least, it still exists today

    • LightscriptionOPM
      2•4 months ago

      My feeling is that there is still a puritanical streak both on the left and right.

      I don’t know where people are getting their “hook up” culture. The statistical analysis I have heard about sexual life in colleges actually states that there aren’t widely distributed high frequencies, but more like a few people get a lot and most don’t.

      The left seems pretty prude these days. I think there was a consensus that “free love” back fired in the past so people try to ignore it if they can most of the time these days unless it involves other than normative orientations.

      • @glimse
        1•4 months ago

        Fair enough, I didn’t think you meant the free love movement. I think the reason those numbers are falling is not because the world is more prude, though. There’s a ton of factors at play - money, entertainment, and laws.

        Social events/dating is prohibitively expensive for a lot of people nowadays and there’s even less reason to do it now that technology has taken away a lot of the reasons people go out. So people are meeting less in general and therefore hooking up less

        Women’s rights are also being eroded across the world and an accidental pregnancy is not worth the risk. Can’t get an abortion, can’t afford to be a parent. There’s more awareness of STDs and a LOT more awareness of sexual predators…not to mention awareness of how the courts often let them get away with it.

        Another thing I just thought of - it’s financially beneficial to “settle down” with one person. More and more people are incapable of affording housing on a single income. I’ve been joking about making a dating app profile with the bio “HOMEOWNER LOOKING FOR A WOMAN TO SPLIT THESE MORTGAGE PAYMENTS WITH”