Public-Health Puzzle: Young People Having Less Sex, Contracting More STDs

Re:Public-Health Puzzle: Young People Having Less Sex, Contr... by ReptileMan on Saturday October 19, 2019 @03:47PM (#21300365)

They are not slaves to their libidos but to the supply demand in the dating market. If you seek more high status males (and at the coasts of US you have women outeducating men by a sizable margin, so the ratio of single women to men with higher status than the women is favorable towards the latter) the high status males can demand more risky stuff and be more reluctant to commit. And unless the women want to date down they have to accept it. And dating down is still beginning as a process.

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Re:Public-Health Puzzle: Young People Having Less Sex, Contr... by bilbo0s on Saturday October 19, 2019 @04:06PM (#21300480)

>And unless the women want to date down they have to accept it.

And, these women. They are so averse to the "date down" idea in your view, that they are willing to contract HIV to avoid dating firemen or truck drivers?

I'm probably too old to understand anymore. But I'll just say that in my day, more women were in college than men. Even so, that idea of risky sex because a guy has a degree would have been patent nonsense. Very few women in my day would have been willing to risk their lives to have sex with you. A guy's degree was just not that attractive.

I find it difficult to believe that women have changed very much in that regard. But, hey, I guess if you guys say so.

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Re:Public-Health Puzzle: Young People Having Less Sex, Contr... by ReptileMan on Saturday October 19, 2019 @04:14PM (#21300528)

The HIV scare was strongest by the time the older millennials were born. I am not sure that it is on the top of anyone's mind right now.

Since I entered the dating market I have observed that women prefer men being taller, at least comparable smartness and earning a bit more than them. The couples around for which this isn't true are probably < 10% of all.

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Re:Public-Health Puzzle: Young People Having Less Sex, Contr... by manicdee on Saturday October 19, 2019 @05:12PM (#21300809)

Same as it ever was.

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