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Old Jul 08, 2016, 03:36 AM
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My take as someone on the generational fence:

IMHO, modern culture isn't much obsessed with sex at all. It's obsessed with sexuality, sexual preferences/alignment, the visualization/marketing (personal or otherwise) of sex... but overall, I feel like people have grown far too insular, self-concerned, and detached to actually be that interested in sex itself, for the sheer act of mutual stimulation and pleasure.

As a single guy, I've experienced this firsthand. You have to be outgoing, open-minded, opportunistic, interactive, and social for sex to occur. I've witnessed less-and-less of that in the now versus the past. Getting out, off your devices, and out of your comfort zone makes for a liberated culture of sex. Provocative selfies do not.

Maybe I'm just bitter because I haven't had a date in three years ha ha, but I'm just not experiencing the same level of interpersonal interest (sexual or otherwise) that I experienced back in the late '90s / early oughts... and that in itself cannot even BEGIN to compare to the free love era of the '60s or the Studio 54 days of the '70s. I do find it hilarious when I hear baby boomers "aghast" at the sexual nature of things "these days". What? It was sexual pandemonium then.

My favorite comedian Doug Stanhope was lamenting how this is going to be the first generation that was less outrageous than the last, and I think that idea holds a lot of water. The 2010s are a time of self-marketing/self-branding... and the 'sex sells' adage is of course going to be applied, but people acting erotic and provocative doesn't make for promiscuity, experimentation, or an evolution of sex in culture. Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if we're headed the way of Japan where a big part of the population isn't even interested in sex.

To me as a single man in 2016, it couldn't be any less sexual.
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