Re:On incels, dead bedrooms and the hard problems of loneliness
by schnevets on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @06:30PM
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I'm curious about what data suggests this, since getting honest answers about sexual activity from the public is a famously difficult challenge.
As an entertaining example, Seth Stephens-Davidowitz's big data book Everybody Lies mentioned a study that asked people in the United States how frequently they had sex, and how frequently they practiced safe sex with a condom. If the resulting data was accurate and projected across the entire country, the United States consume 2.7 billion condoms a year... even though only 600 million condoms are sold in a year.
Re:On incels, dead bedrooms and the hard problems of loneliness
by inreverse on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @07:06PM
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That seems like it could be an interpretation problem where the definition of sex changes to only include penetrative sex in the context of the safe sex question.
As an entertaining example, Seth Stephens-Davidowitz's big data book Everybody Lies mentioned a study that asked people in the United States how frequently they had sex, and how frequently they practiced safe sex with a condom. If the resulting data was accurate and projected across the entire country, the United States consume 2.7 billion condoms a year... even though only 600 million condoms are sold in a year.
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/06/our-searc...