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The truth is young women have fallen out of love with dating and "hookups" in general. Many stats show that the younger generations have less friends, have les

by aprilthird2021 2y ago

The truth is young women have fallen out of love with dating and "hookups" in general. Many stats show that the younger generations have less friends, have less sex, etc. They value a life partner or romantic partner more for the stability and less for the "thrill" because living with a permanently online record of their lives and the viciousness of the entire Internet being able to "cancel" you for things you said or did years ago has made everyone a bit less thrill-seeking, a bit less adventurous, etc. And that doesn't really vibe with dating apps that encourage meeting someone you don't know, your friends don't know, for what's probably going to be a short term relationship. I think it's a bit of a pendulum effect. We went really hard into hookup culture in the 2000s (just check out all the American Pie type movies back then that would never be made today). Now people are swinging back more to wanting stable relationships that benefit on paper rather than in our hearts and all.

331c8c71 2y ago
Less friends and sex could be simply the result of face-to-face communication being steadily replaced with virtual substitutes (and the resulting relative denormalization of face-to-face communication).
- keyshapegeo99 2y ago
  Or it's simply because young people spend ever-increasing periods of time living in cramped shared accommodation or with their parents, due to the dysfunctional rental market in most Western Anglosphere countries. This certainly isn't conducive to sex, and often makes it difficult or impossible to host friends (meaning that people often choose to meet at venues such as restaurants instead, a situation which often necessitates more infrequent catch-ups due to the expenses involved).
  - aprilthird2021 2y ago
    Indian people live like this and have lived like this for centuries and they have the same problems (less space, more expensive, more living at home), but they don't have the loneliness and less sex problem.

331c8c71 2y ago

Less friends and sex could be simply the result of face-to-face communication being steadily replaced with virtual substitutes (and the resulting relative denormalization of face-to-face communication).

keyshapegeo99 2y ago
Or it's simply because young people spend ever-increasing periods of time living in cramped shared accommodation or with their parents, due to the dysfunctional rental market in most Western Anglosphere countries. This certainly isn't conducive to sex, and often makes it difficult or impossible to host friends (meaning that people often choose to meet at venues such as restaurants instead, a situation which often necessitates more infrequent catch-ups due to the expenses involved).
- aprilthird2021 2y ago
  Indian people live like this and have lived like this for centuries and they have the same problems (less space, more expensive, more living at home), but they don't have the loneliness and less sex problem.