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Does this weird anyone else out? Graduated HS in 1989 and it seemed like we were all fucking, even the nerds. I'm short and scrawny, still tripped and fell into pussy now and again.
There's something really alarming about this, can't put my finger on it. It's certainly weird that today's young people aren't fucking when we were going nuts during the AIDS epidemic, risking our lives for that cookie. Sex is such a basic human need I can't imagine what going without is doing to mental health.
what i have come to realize is how much different people's view on sexuality differs.
Everybody thinks their own emotions are absolute and the way that everybody sees it; though that is not true at all. A very clear example of this is how different people are attracted to different kinds of people. It's not only about being gay or not, it's also that there's a huge number of people who are either asexual or rather prudish to the extent that they basically don't have sex outside of very narrowly-defined contexts.
This has been a huge surprise for me to learn about since my own instinct is the opposite: sexuality is what keeps the society together, what facilitates the exchange of people and causes relationships. without sexuality, a lot of things wouldn't work or work only very slowly.
i'm nowadays also convinced that it is strongly related to the weather/climate of the region. areas like italy and france have a significantly higher tendency towards sexuality than northern regions, which tend to be rather prudish, i guess.
I am appalled at the fact that some people have casual sex with people they don't intend to marry. That's insane! But also yeah that's the infinity of human expression, people are just all kinds of different.