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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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Giuliano Giacaglia
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One interesting trend that I think it may be overlooked is that 1 or 2 generations down the road, the sexual revolution may have actually decreased the amount of sex that people are having. The numbers are pretty clear if you look at countries like Japan, and Korea or Gen Z
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ted (not lasso)
@ted
yes but hard to disentangle that from other confounding factors like delayed adulthood, economic pressures, changes in social norms due to technology or focus on career, etc.
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Giuliano Giacaglia
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True
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