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Re:Sexual loneliness: A neglected public health problem? by claytonjy on Thursday January 26, 2023 @12:22PM (#34534896)
> in larger cities like NYC it can even be closer to 1:1

I don't know the stats but on places like Blind there's a lot of anecdotes about the dating scene favoring men in NYC and favoring women in SF, due to the gender balances.

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Re:Sexual loneliness: A neglected public health problem? by cuuupid on Thursday January 26, 2023 @12:26PM (#34534998)
Anecdotally agree, I tend to think of SF as a special case due to the extreme gender imbalance and the general sprawled out nature of the bay area
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Re:Sexual loneliness: A neglected public health problem? by jobs_throwaway on Thursday January 26, 2023 @12:42PM (#34535337)
+1 anecdotally on this

If you are a straight man, the NYC dating scene is heavily in your favor. Opposite in SF

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Re:Sexual loneliness: A neglected public health problem? by BurningFrog on Thursday January 26, 2023 @12:47PM (#34535460)
Well, SF has a big population of gay men, which makes it more complicated than just counting men vs women.
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Re:Sexual loneliness: A neglected public health problem? by rngname22 on Thursday January 26, 2023 @01:09PM (#34535901)
Having seen data that most have not (believe me or don't, but if you want to take a chance on a random anon user I would say I can give a more data-informed take on this exact issue than 99.9% of people), it's really not as dramatic of an effect as lonely people would like to pretend, but even subtle as it is numerically, it does affect the feeling. An extra cup of water still feels like a world of difference if you're in a desert.
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