Re:Explaining Sex Rate Changes
by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Monday April 08, 2019 @08:26AM
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Such cases are extreme outliers.
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Re:Explaining Sex Rate Changes
by jessaustin on Monday April 08, 2019 @09:09AM
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This is unnecessarily dismissive. Since online interactions are more common over time, we would expect marriages (or anything else, really) resulting from online interactions to also become more common over time.
They might be but it's possible that the percentage of such interactions that result in a marriage won't offset the lost potential marriages that came from more "classical" forms of interaction. And when I say "lost" I mean when people start focusing more and more on online dating having expectations other than meaningful relationships/marriage.
The question isn't if online interactions can produce meaningful relationships but rather what is the expectation of people that do it this way. Because if the expectation is that online dating is just for one night stands and "fun" then the increase in such interactions won't bring an equivalent increase in marriages.