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Re:Most young men are single. Most young women are not by taylodl on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @10:06AM (#34896684)
The article briefly mentions porn as an issue. I think porn is a much bigger issue than we're letting on. The men who are now in their 20's are the first generation of men to grow up with virtually unlimited access to porn. What are the results? We can empirically conclude they're struggling to form relationships with women. That's correlation, non causation, but others have been researching this issue and their preliminary findings are pointing to porn being a much bigger problem than we'd believed.
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Re:Most young men are single. Most young women are not by sw104 on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @10:20AM (#34896926)
That's a fair point, but I'd add that it's sex in media as well as porn. Media is more sexualised than ever before:- TV shows feature more sex and more of it is clearly visible, sex is used to sell basically anything, some dating apps/website have commodified sex (Tinder) and social media adds pressure for younger people.
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Re:Most young men are single. Most young women are not by taylodl on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @10:54AM (#34897518)
I remember reading, maybe it's been 20-30 years ago now, that there was a lot more sex portrayed in media than sex people were actually having. To your point, today's young men have grown up with that too - thinking people are casually hooking up and having sex all the time when in reality they're not. Add in porn portraying women as nymphs who are eager to lose their clothes with little to no provocation and it would appear these young men have a very skewed idea of how sex and relationships work in the real world. Maybe they're figuring it out as they get older and that's part of the reason why today's young women are dating older men?
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Re:Most young men are single. Most young women are not by ImPostingOnHN on Sunday February 26, 2023 @01:11AM (#34943519)
it seems the causation, if any, is more likely to be in the other direction

porn is something to turn to when you get turned down

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