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What an interesting X-Ray of the sexual marketplace in the graph. Apparently young men have less than half infections as women (i.e. less than half sexual part

What an interesting X-Ray of the sexual marketplace in the graph. Apparently young men have less than half infections as women (i.e. less than half sexual partners than women do - all things being equal) , but the situation tapers in later age and slightly reverses in the 40s when men have slightly more sexual partners. Other than that, the data shows that the sexless generation is driving itself to extinction. That's just natural selection at work.

toomuchtodo 7y ago
Likely because men’s sexual and partner value goes up as they age, where women peak around 21 and rapidly decline after 30. This is based on Okcupid and other dating marketplace data.
- sho 7y ago
  Looks like you brought facts to a virtue-fight!
- shademaan 7y ago
  You're delusional
  - toomuchtodo 7y ago
    Citations are in a previous comment I contributed on the topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21086796 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21086796 Please consider contributing to the discussion in a more meaningful way in the future. Name calling doesn’t help anyone.
catalogia 7y ago
> " Apparently young men have less than half infections as women (i.e. less than half sexual partners than women do - all things being equal)" All things certainly aren't equal though. There is a very large asymmetry in the chance to contract some STDs (specifically HIV, maybe others as well but I'm not sure.) > In general, receptive sex is riskier than insertive sex. This means that women have a higher risk for getting HIV during vaginal or anal sex than their sex partners. https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/group/gender/women/index.html https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/group/gender/women/index.html (There are some CDC documents that put numbers to this generality, but I don't have the time to go find them right now.)
- buboard 7y ago
  The graph is about Chlamydia though. (also the factors you mention wouldn't explain the age asymmetries)
  - catalogia 7y ago
    I don't mean to suggest that there are no asymmetries in who is having more sex. Only that the assumption of equal transmission rate shouldn't be made. I don't know if there is a transmission asymmetry for Chlamydia, but I don't think it's safe to assume there isn't.
- robocat 7y ago
  Or men have the same rate, but sampled at 50%: perhaps the symptoms for women are twice as bad?

toomuchtodo 7y ago

Likely because men’s sexual and partner value goes up as they age, where women peak around 21 and rapidly decline after 30. This is based on Okcupid and other dating marketplace data.

sho 7y ago
Looks like you brought facts to a virtue-fight!
shademaan 7y ago
You're delusional
- toomuchtodo 7y ago
  Citations are in a previous comment I contributed on the topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21086796 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21086796 Please consider contributing to the discussion in a more meaningful way in the future. Name calling doesn’t help anyone.

catalogia 7y ago

> " Apparently young men have less than half infections as women (i.e. less than half sexual partners than women do - all things being equal)" All things certainly aren't equal though. There is a very large asymmetry in the chance to contract some STDs (specifically HIV, maybe others as well but I'm not sure.) > In general, receptive sex is riskier than insertive sex. This means that women have a higher risk for getting HIV during vaginal or anal sex than their sex partners. https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/group/gender/women/index.html https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/group/gender/women/index.html (There are some CDC documents that put numbers to this generality, but I don't have the time to go find them right now.)

buboard 7y ago
The graph is about Chlamydia though. (also the factors you mention wouldn't explain the age asymmetries)
- catalogia 7y ago
  I don't mean to suggest that there are no asymmetries in who is having more sex. Only that the assumption of equal transmission rate shouldn't be made. I don't know if there is a transmission asymmetry for Chlamydia, but I don't think it's safe to assume there isn't.
robocat 7y ago
Or men have the same rate, but sampled at 50%: perhaps the symptoms for women are twice as bad?