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Re:Why are fewer young adults having casual sex? by scarmig on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @10:32AM (#26329638)
If the poster had said "Technology has enabled women to choose to sleep with a more rarefied subset of men than in the past," many people would complain that it's incel rhetoric attributing the statistical distribution to conscious agency on the part of women.

Speaking in terms of distributions is the best way to handle this discussion, because people are more able to focus on the facts.

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Re:Why are fewer young adults having casual sex? by chefkoch on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @10:32AM (#26329641)
Why is that? It's the women who decide who of the men has sex. If a women is not considered unattraktive it's way easier for her to find someone (but most won't find that someone good enough) for casual sex.
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Re:Why are fewer young adults having casual sex? by newsclues on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @10:36AM (#26329715)
I write as a 30 something year old man that has never had sex.

Having re-read my comment I tried to make it gender neutral because I think the phenomenon effects all genders, it was only the third paragraph that I used gendered language.

I’m concerned that you jumped on that, but not surprised.

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Re:Why are fewer young adults having casual sex? by nickthemagicman on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @10:26AM (#26329534)
Everything viewed through statistics takes the emotion and human element out of it.

This is statistically accurate analysis from dating sites and also the above article. It's not really something that's an opinion.

Much like how Americans are Obese due to readily available junk food, women have become less interested in the less attractive men.

Humans are more primitive than you would like to think.

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Re:Why are fewer young adults having casual sex? by goatinaboat on Friday March 05, 2021 @04:02PM (#26362056)
Americans are Obese due to readily available junk food, women have become less interested in the less attractive men

Leading to headlines like http://whisper.sh/stories/09e9086b-03de-4087-ad5b-7f003ce2c3... "Plus-Sized Women Admit They Aren't Attracted To Overweight Men"

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