Casual Sex: Everyone Is Doing It?
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The results are unsurprising, but interesting. The New York Times has a summary.[2]
[1] https://www.amazon.com/Sex-America-Edward-Laumann/dp/0446671... [2] http://www.nytimes.com/1994/10/07/us/sex-in-america-faithful...
The article discusses candid interviews (~2,200) volunteered to an NYU psychology professor's (Zhana Vrangalova) website (https://casualsexproject.com).
If promiscuity were to increase over a number of generations, that would be more on account of increased safety practices and/or improved immunological methods.
With studies and experiments you have to ask yourself : who is doing the work? who is funding the work?
The people who are doing the work may have biases ranging from "how do I get published?" To "how do I get paid". Additionally, a sample size for a test costs money. How many samples does it take to consider it worthy of repeating? How many times should a single experiment be repeated?
Usually people funding think, "how does this help me?" Which can range from "I have cancer" to "I'll make a profit". The gov on the otherhand may be more lenient but how much of your taxes do you want to use on experiments that may be useless?
The concept of "dark ages" doesnt consider what our climate really is. There are limited resources and few people with those resources believe they should be stolen to fund projects they dont care about. There is plenty Id like to be studied such as
- is education memorization or pattern recognition?
- at what degree does exercize enable / prevent education
- what is the zone and how do minds get put into the zone?
But Im fairly confident these will never be studied because nobody wants to do the work and funders See cern and mars as more interesting ventures
again, i'm not trying to debase you/your beliefs/opinions, i'm just curious.
Risks: disease, child support, being viewed as "used goods" and otherwise debased, wasting high-value years that could go to raising a family (why buy the cow if you're getting the milk for free?), increased severity of a broken heart, wanting to avoid falling for used goods (increased divorce risk, awkward comparisons...), greater chance of false rape accusation...
Note that even non-broken condoms do a poor job of protecting against herpes and warts. You can somewhat treat them, but there is no cure.
And even virginity can be a gray area, I once dated a virgin who was willing (and eager) to do pretty much anything except vaginal intercourse. So she could still have casual (non-intercourse) sex without giving up her virginity.
Wha...? I'm having a hard time imagining this person.
"Yeah, I had sex with that person, and only that one person, and I'm trying to stick to that...but no, they're not special."
Since I do not want ambiguity in my description of my non-existent sex life, I will say that I use the medical definition of sex. That means any contact with gentialia is sex and that is what I thought I was saying when I said promiscuous.
Granted, using your own definition of what constitutes "sex", no one would ever say that you're engaging in "casual sex" or are "promiscuous", since you not willing to have any sexual contact at all.
But in the wider societal view, it's still possible to have regular casual sex with a single partner without also being branded as "promiscuous". And since "virginity" doesn't have a single definition, even possible for one to engage in some sexual activity while remaining a virgin.
"75%
That’s the number of Gen Next Americans (18-25 year olds) who say today’s youth are more likely to have casual sex than were young people 20 years ago. Only 7% of Nexters say their generation has less casual sex and 17% say they have about the same amount. Gen Nexters offer some other fairly harsh assessments about how their behavior and lifestyle compare with the generation that preceded them."
My main concern with it is accessibility...
For next steps, i conducted user testing on porn hub. They were unable to replicate the error.