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> I mean less forcing yourself onto others & coming to talk to therapist instead of internalizing.

Equating sex to “forcing yourself onto others” and indicating that there’s less internalizing going on in the same sentence is pretty wild.

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Not all sex, just implying that a portion of the total sex being had from 1) people forcing themselves to do it even though they didn’t want to and 2) people forcing others to do it even though they didn’t want to - and that because of the current environment around consent and queerness, there is less sex overall, because people are having less of the bad sex.

A marketing demographic having less sex does not equate to them being less rapey. It just means they're having less sex.

But why are they having less sex? If a portion of the sex that was happening was rape-adjacent, and it is no longer happening because fewer people are getting drunk and less often, then it does equate to being "less rapey".

Also less dating and less friends. The loneliest generation.

https://www.multivu.com/players/English/8294451-cigna-us-lon...

If the movies of the era are anything to go by, the alpha boomer male initiated sex by pinning an unwilling female against a wall and kissing them. The female would struggle and when freed from the kiss, slap the male. At this point in the mating rutual coitus would occur, followed by the customary cigarette in bed.

> If the movies of the era are anything to go by…

I suppose if our frame of reference for talking about reality is movies, it’s also incredibly disappointing how little respect we display as a society toward Dominic Toretto. He and his crew have saved the world several times since Gen Z were born and they act like he doesn’t even exist.

Whereas rapey James Bond got to open the London olympics, the pile of "me too" complaints he has racked up would dwarf those of even the keenest of movie producers.

Dominic Toretto and the late Brian O’Connor’s wife were recently honored at an event at the colosseum in Rome though. We live in a world of vibrant contrasts.

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