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Re:The Sex Recession: The Share of Americans Having Regular ... by sizzle on Saturday August 30, 2025 @06:49PM (#45078669)
What about hookup culture and apps like Tinder, how do you factor that into your analysis? Also dating apps are connecting people which lead to intimacy. I wonder what the demographics reveal and if it’s only a subset of the population using these.
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Re:The Sex Recession: The Share of Americans Having Regular ... by Gibbon1 on Saturday August 30, 2025 @07:22PM (#45078892)
My opinion of those is what I think of as the seal out of water effect. You wouldn't think a seal as a powerful and graceful animal if you only saw them out of the water. Most people on dating apps are like seals out of water.
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Re:The Sex Recession: The Share of Americans Having Regular ... by rkomorn on Saturday August 30, 2025 @07:24PM (#45078896)
What's the app for dating seals in water?
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Re:The Sex Recession: The Share of Americans Having Regular ... by msgodel on Saturday August 30, 2025 @08:39PM (#45079308)
Slowly building up context with people like coworkers and classmates over years.
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Re:The Sex Recession: The Share of Americans Having Regular ... by rkomorn on Sunday August 31, 2025 @01:57AM (#45080706)
No I meant actual seals.
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Re:The Sex Recession: The Share of Americans Having Regular ... by fy20 on Sunday August 31, 2025 @12:35AM (#45080404)
Sex doesn't equal intimacy, at least in the way people really want. Modern dating apps turn sex into a transaction, a one night stand on tap.
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Re:The Sex Recession: The Share of Americans Having Regular ... by platevoltage on Sunday August 31, 2025 @12:58AM (#45080497)
I've had several meaningful relationships that were the results of dating apps, including my current 8-year one. And that one was from one of the "modern" apps you speak of.
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Re:The Sex Recession: The Share of Americans Having Regular ... by mrastro on Sunday August 31, 2025 @11:22AM (#45083866)
The inequality on dating apps is very high. Their Gini coefficients vary from 0.4 to 0.6 on most popular dating apps. Even if 100% of people were using dating apps, only the top percentiles of men would be satisfied because they can get way more short-term partners than they could without the apps.

To the extent hookups lead to relationships, it's coming from people that are willing to settle

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