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Re:Young U.S. men having a lot less sex in the 21st century,... by onetimemanytime on Friday June 12, 2020 @04:05PM (#23503257)
>>Men as a group aren't having less sex, instead there's a winner take all effect where a small number of men are having a lot of sex with a lot of women while a large number of men are having little to no sex.

Isn't this normal? Males in the animal world fight to death for the right to pass down their genes.

Women don't care about all men getting sex...everyone wants the "best" possible mate for themselves to have sex and/or kids.

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Re:Young U.S. men having a lot less sex in the 21st century,... by jeffreyrogers on Friday June 12, 2020 @04:13PM (#23503370)
It is normal, but the only successful societies have been the ones that resolve this issue in such a way that most men can find a sexual partner.
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Re:Young U.S. men having a lot less sex in the 21st century,... by watwut on Friday June 12, 2020 @04:24PM (#23503495)
> Males in the animal world fight to death for the right to pass down their genes.

They actually don't. Such a thing would be on the rare side in animal world.

The only exception would be spiders where he risks being eaten. Other then that, they either have basically hookups or woo lady while ignoring other guys.

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Re:Young U.S. men having a lot less sex in the 21st century,... by onetimemanytime on Friday June 12, 2020 @05:13PM (#23503978)
>>Other then that, they either have basically hookups or woo lady while ignoring other guys.

Only if "other guys" didn't have their own plans. A quick search:

Bees fight to death over females

http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8354000/835...

Male Bison Fight for Harem Rights https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4eOhuLDfeU

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harem_(zoology)

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Re:Young U.S. men having a lot less sex in the 21st century,... by watwut on Friday June 12, 2020 @05:50PM (#23504280)
I said rare, did not said never. And typical animal sex does not involve fight for death among males. I don't mean typical as in slightly over 50%, but as in overwhelming majority.

Animals are way more likely to fight over food and such. Sex, not all that much and they have not that much reason to fight over that.

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Re:Young U.S. men having a lot less sex in the 21st century,... by onetimemanytime on Friday June 12, 2020 @06:00PM (#23504348)
what you said is written above.

>>Animals are way more likely to fight over food and such. Sex, not all that much and they have not that much reason to fight over that.

Everything boils down to sex, pass down those genes and insure that your offspring make it.

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Re:Young U.S. men having a lot less sex in the 21st century,... by watwut on Saturday June 13, 2020 @01:00AM (#23506902)
You don't know much about animals, right?
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