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ted (not lasso)
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this "Summer Without Sex" article's focus on celibacy as a path to wellness/happiness and means to fight the patriarchy reads as... misguided??? 1. article conveniently forgets the female-sexual-empowerment-as-a-means-to-fight-the-patriarchy movement 2. which (along with traditional gender norms and the desire to fit in with peers) influences women to have unwanted, consensual sex 3. unwanted, consensual sex is associated with lower happiness (for both men and women) 4. meanwhile, it is well established that people who have more sex and better quality sex are happier 5. strongest moderator of sex quality is relationship closeness and the happiness maximizing # of sexual partners is 1 6. therefore women optimizing for happiness should not necessarily aspire for a summer without sex, but instead for a summer without unwanted sex OR with sex with the right person idk what the patriarchy has to do with it https://www.thecut.com/article/women-celibate-dating-sex.html
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what are you basing #5 on?
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ted (not lasso)
@ted
multiple studies: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.0347-0520.2004.00369.x https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0167268115000050?via%3Dihub https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28604041/ https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/20/5/4103 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00224499.2022.2129557 the best counter argument is this paper that dives into the nuances of how casual sex *can* be good for our wellbeing: https://www.mdpi.com/2409-9287/8/2/25
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