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One thing to note is that birth-control may decrease libido in some women. The science is a bit mixed though. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/all-about
by Balgair 6y ago
One thing to note is that birth-control may decrease libido in some women. The science is a bit mixed though.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/all-about-sex/201902/the-latest-birth-control-pills-and-women-s-libido https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/all-about-sex/201902...
As for the male side of things, I'm not sure if there is a environmental culprit like birth-control.
- willcipriano 6y agoAntidepressants and antianxiety medications decrease libido as well.
- robocat 6y agoDepression and anxiety usually reduce libido. Edit: Also an unhappy relationship often can lead to poor sex, depression, and anxiety.
- AnthonyMouse 6y agoSounds like we need to address depression and anxiety with something other than drugs.
- supernovae 6y agoShorter work weeks, universal healthcare, affordable housing, open borders, freedom to travel, less consumerism, more time for friends/family...
- robocat 6y agoI thought countries that have most of those things seem to have as many problems with depression and anxiety? And countries without those things perhaps don't? Which are the correlations that actually matter?
- supernovae 6y agonah... go look up quality of life ratings and you can see these countries do great.
- tomp 6y agoI'm pretty sure that universal healthcare isn't compatible with open borders. Budgets aren't infinite.
- supernovae 6y agoWhy do people assume open borders means freeloaders vs freedom?
- tomp 6y agoAs long as your country is offering something that 90% of Earth’s population lacks (access to high-quality free healthcare which is what people usually mean as “universal”) then, yes, you’re going to attract a lot of freeloaders.
- supernovae 5y agoNo, no you won't. You will attract people who are committed to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
- jquery 5y agoI wish I could believe this. Seems more like wishful thinking along the lines of America’s hubris that it could “bring democracy” to the Middle East. There’s nothing magic about soil. You need to give time for waves of immigrants to integrate, or it leads to backlash and horrible people like Trump getting elected.
- proxyon 6y ago> open borders No thanks. Feel free to go conduct extreme social experiments with your own life, not mine.
- amanaplanacanal 6y agoI wouldn’t call it extreme, as it has been done before. In the US, for example, borders were completely open for the first hundred years until anti-Chinese racism led to the passage of the Page Act in 1875.
- prestigious 6y agoOpen borders = unaffordable housing, no universal borders, less time for friends and family
- lr4444lr 5y agoWhat does open borders have to do with the other things?
- jquery 5y agoOne of these things is not like the other, one of these things does not belong
- krrrh 6y agoOr maybe drugs that lead to insight instead of away from it.
- CRConrad 6y agoAlso, you need to address birth control with something other than drugs.
- thrower123 6y agoLack of sex causes depression and anxiety. It's a vicious circle.
- coldtea 6y agoDepression and anxiety even more so, modern work-life balance and social media too...
- throwaway1492 6y agoBluntly, pornography and masturbation can lead to desensitization and difficulty in "real" sex with a partner. A lot of the r/nofap people have discussed this extensively. I know of no studies to cite, but there's a tone of anecdotal evidence available on that particular subreddit.