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Re:After my dad died, we found the love letters on Sunday November 23, 2025 @08:30AM (#46023414)
>- This is a person who was deprived of the sort of genuine sexual and emotional attention that we take for granted from puberty age.

This is somewhat close to the incel line of thinking "I deserve a girl to have sex with. The fact that every girl refuses to do so means I'm a victim."

Re:2022 Amish Population Profile on Sunday July 31, 2022 @08:34PM (#32300381)
Wow, interesting. Though my math comes out to 6.64 (== 100*(.5*0.81)**3).

https://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20220223000644

Re:2022 Amish Population Profile on Sunday July 31, 2022 @08:22PM (#32300276)
>and his descendents will limit to 0 like everyone else in his culture.

What does this mean? Are you saying the human population of the universe will drop to 0? If so, why mention "his culture"?

Re:2022 Amish Population Profile on Sunday July 31, 2022 @08:14PM (#32300220)
> what do socially conservative practices like [...] prohibition on fornication [...] serve?

Women and men who have had only 1 sexual partner are happier in their marriages:

https://ifstudies.org/blog/does-sexual-history-affect-marita...

There's also the big benefit of essentially eliminating STDs.

In my view, a lot of it comes down to what does sex mean? To me, sex says "I love you so much I want our love to overflow into new life. I love you so much I want to raise a child with you." Raising a child within a marriage is generally much better than raising a child outside of a marriage.

> restriction on contraception

One big problem with contraception is that it's not reliable. The pill has a 7% failure rate on average, and condoms have a 12% failure rate on average. People use contraception thinking it will prevent a pregnancy, but they're wrong.

> benefit of a socially powerful elite

I don't really understand how a prohibition on fornication benefits a powerful elite. The elites in the media industry seem to be promoting fornication in movies, TV shows, books, videogames, etc. I think elite men often want to use their position to have sex with a lot of women, which would be easier if women are ok with fornication. Also they won't be regarded as hypocrites if they say what they're doing is ok. Take for example Aziz Ansari. A woman accused him of some bad sexual thing. Much of the media defended Aziz saying it was just awkward sex, and that's not unethical. If Aziz had been publicly against fornication though, the media wouldn't have defended him.

Re:You Suck at Excel (2015) [video] on Saturday December 21, 2019 @12:30AM (#21849808)
The title reminds me of a part of The Website is Down #2: Excel Hell (slightly NSFW)

https://youtu.be/1SNxaJlicEU?t=216

The jeopardy part of the joke is hardly juvenile compared to the penis part of the joke.