• gdog05@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    Do kids still go parking?

    So many kids today don’t want to drive or learn to drive 🤷‍♂️ And based on my partners’ kids, they’re much less sexually driven than we were. We did a bunch of stupid shit if there was a hint of a chance of getting laid.

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      11 days ago

      That’s sad. The hours we spent talking, laughing, and making out in cars were the best part of high school. I wonder if some of the disinterest is from anti depressants.

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        It’s probably from the world burning down around them. Hard to be horny when you’re full of existential dread.

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          Yeah, absolutely no existential dread from the Cold War. And we all just instantly stopped believing that the world would end in a nuclear holocaust just because the Soviet Union collapsed. Then there was the Gulf war, then 9/11, then another Gulf war. And we’ve known about climate change and how capitalism is killing our planet for practically the entire time, that’s not new. Oil crisis? That’s been a slowly building crescendo of apocalypse since like the 70s.

          I’ll buy existential dread as an excuse for not wanting to breed, not as an explanation for teenagers being less horny.

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          Should be the opposite. Stressful conditions make us want to fuck and make babies. Maybe I’m wrong, but in any case, sex is about the most effective stress relief I know of.

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            11 days ago

            I don’t think your experience in this case is universal. Birth rates have been steadily dropping as things have gotten worse.

            I feel the same way as you, but my wife is the opposite of us.

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              Wasn’t speaking from experience, or today’s social norms. Meant to say that primates fuck and masturbate when stressed. We do as well.

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        11 days ago

        Kids seems so socially anxious and isolated, making a doom loop against making friends and fucking.