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Seeing this question asked is sort of sad. Did this become a less common experience? What killed it?
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It's probably from the world burning down around them. Hard to be horny when you're full of existential dread.
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.
Give us y2k and we'll party like it's 1999!
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.
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.
Wasn't speaking from experience, or today's social norms. Meant to say that primates fuck and masturbate when stressed. We do as well.