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Seeing this question asked is sort of sad. Did this become a less common experience? What killed it? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/justpost@lemmy.world
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[โ€“] 29 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Do kids still go parking?

So many kids today don't want to drive or learn to drive ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ 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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  • [โ€“] 14 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    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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  • [โ€“] 42 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    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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  • [โ€“] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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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  • [โ€“] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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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  • [โ€“] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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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