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ikmckenz ◴[] No.42474139[source]
Teens aren't doing drugs, smoking, drinking, or having sex. And the suicide rate has never been higher.
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mmooss ◴[] No.42475794[source]
> Teens aren't ... having sex.

Nor are people in their 20s (that is, both groups are having much less sex). That is the most worrying thing to me. People are not even engaging in the most fundamental, unavoidable, pleasurable human drive.

They seem very much like traumatized people, on a massive scale, just trying to survive.

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1. robertoandred ◴[] No.42477350[source]
When you don't get matches, it's pretty easy to avoid sex.
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2. bonestamp2 ◴[] No.42477378[source]
... and if everyone is always on screens it's hard to avoid the dating apps where they're not getting matches.
3. badpun ◴[] No.42482513[source]
Women get tons of matches though.
4. mmooss ◴[] No.42484600[source]
That doesn't explain why people would have less sex now than in the past.