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What's wrong with the explanation the researchers gave in the paper abstract? They posit that it's due to the increased number of single people (less social pre
by chillacy 10y ago
What's wrong with the explanation the researchers gave in the paper abstract? They posit that it's due to the increased number of single people (less social pressure to marry, vs girls getting married at 18), and the existing married couples getting older (the paper notes that couples in their 20s have sex ~80x a year, in their 60s ~20x).
- coldtea 10y ago>What's wrong with the explanation the researchers gave in the paper abstract? That "more single people" is basically a restatement of the phenomenon of less sex, and not an explanation.
- chillacy 10y agoIt could indeed be the explanation: if nothing else changed and there were simply more single people, then that would be the entire cause, problem solved. In that case you can investigate the question "why are there more single people" instead of the billion other possible causes of "no sex" like intimacy problems, technology, pornography, etc. Instead, this thread is full of speculation akin to the most click-baity of science journalism: relatively boring paper goes in, crazy theories come out.