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Re:Public-Health Puzzle: Young People Having Less Sex, Contr... by ReptileMan on Saturday October 19, 2019 @03:37PM (#21300294)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/03/29/share-ame...

The share of Americans not having sex has reached a record high

% of 18-30 year olds reporting no sex in the past year

2008

Women: 8% Men: 10%

2018

Women: 18% Men: 28%

The rate of change is twice higher for men. I guess reality is misogynist by your definition of misogyny

Re:Public-Health Puzzle: Young People Having Less Sex, Contr... by pushcx on Saturday October 19, 2019 @04:10PM (#21300505)
Compare sources. First, there is no long-term trend: https://gssdataexplorer.norc.org/variables/5057/vshow

Second, and more importantly: the GSS is an survey of 1,000 people. There were 396 people in this age range (https://gssdataexplorer.norc.org/variables/53/vshow) and 45% were men (https://gssdataexplorer.norc.org/variables/81/vshow). Seems safe to assume those variables are independent, so that's 178 men in the age range. You are hanging a sweeping claim that there's been a total upheaval in heterosexual sexual activity whereby a "large percentage of men are totally excluded from removed from the dating market" on literally 31 guys answering one question differently. The CDC studies linked above had tens of thousands of subjects.

Re:Public-Health Puzzle: Young People Having Less Sex, Contr... by ryandrake on Saturday October 19, 2019 @04:31PM (#21300603)
Anyone who doesn’t believe it should feel free to observe it: Pick any dating site and set up two accounts: one male and one female. Put in the same bio on each and choose stock photos of average looking 24 year olds. Observe and compare inboxes for a month or so.
Re:Public-Health Puzzle: Young People Having Less Sex, Contr... by throwaway87378 on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @01:53AM (#21320720)
I don't understand why people are not pointing out the obvious: there is a correlation with rising obesity rates.

https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/health-statisti...

40% of the adult US population is now obese, 70% is obese or overweight. Overweight people have a hard time dating, for those obese it is even tougher, and many give up hope. Men have a further problem: obesity is very strongly linked to diseases that have an impact on their ability to have an erection.