Reply With QuoteOriginally Posted by John Many Jars
dust? I would have thought it would be another substance.
dust? I would have thought it would be another substance.
The first response to that article makes a relevant point. Once sex is seperated from committment, then what incentive is there for young males to create a relationship? If the girls go along with the "porn movie" approach to sex (and that is happening), then why would the boys change?
So its not just the boys and their porn and video games who are at fault. Not to mention there are plenty of girls who watch porn and play video games.
Nothing preventing them from doing this within the confines of a committed, monogomous relationship is there?
Emotional intimacy as its own reward? Or do you really think that all men ever want from a relationship is sex?
There are always exceptions, but there are plenty of young men who will happily jump from girl to girl as soon as the thrill of the conquest wears off. The desire for a real relationship comes later.
THE POINT IS that chicks always fuck with a guy's shit. They install stupid apps on your iPhone and try to get you to buy Bose speakers because Aimee's boyfriend has them on his ceiling and they're cute. Is it any wonder boys retreat to a world of porn and video games?
...dragging themselves through the EA/Origin site at dawn looking for a patched D/L, porn-dazzled hipsters burning for the /b/ connection to redtube in the machinery of night....
Ginsberg had it easy, he was gay
You are more right than you can fucking know. Just yesterday my wife wanted me to buy outside speakers for our patio shaped like fake rocks. It was all I could do not to scream "what the fuck, woman! Fake rocks, where does it fucking end?" That didn't seem very conducive to a long and happy marriage, though, so I just said, "I've never really cared for fake rocks."
Nothing is new under the sun.
There's always some new fad coming along that makes older generations cluck their tongues at the outlandish behavior of the younger generations and wonder if society is doomed. Hint: It's not.
...Man, you are so smooth!
Oh gosh, thanks for that line, I might need it. The other day we were in a garden centre browsing the patio stuff after we had picked out some stuff fort he garden and my wife says "Oh look! Speakers disguised as rocks. That's a really good idea!"
What's the terrible crime with the rock shaped speakers? They seem like a good way to get sound into the garden with having to mount speakers ... right?
Fixed that for you, because damn, son, you appear to have some serious curmudgeonly inaccuracy in your worldview.
My generation had chicks going braless everywhere, it was really tough. Now they wear three or four layers of stuff, even in the heat of summer. I will never understand fashion.
THE POINT IS that chicks always fuck with a guy's shit.
Is that in the porn the young guys are watching?
In later experiments, when they were allowed to push a stimulation lever on their own accord, they self-stimulated hundreds of times per hour. Even when given the option to eat when hungry or to stimulate the pleasure center, the rats chose the stimulation until they were physically exhausted and on the brink of death.
and the problem is....?
Wait a second... Attach a generator to the end of that stimulation lever, and I think we've just solved the energy crisis.
Lemme just stop you right there...In a new e-book...
Also, Omniscia, I like where your head is at.
Let's get a patent, form a company.
Name Ideas?
Masterbation-ron
Sexxon Mobil
That is all I got.
They can't pay for the pizza.. Run over the guy with their scooter... Hit him with a tennis ball... Invite him into their sex-dungeon...Is that in the porn the young guys are watching?
All I ever needed to know I learned from Mr Miyagi. Paint the fence. Wax on. Wax off.
"Is the overuse of video games and pervasiveness of online porn causing the demise of guys?
Increasingly, researchers say yes..."
Researchers...like the ones who wrote this article!
Too bad Powergen Italia is already taken.
What about Texxxaco?
Pr0n Ed
edit - Oh, the perfect one is already taken.
You need to start reading things in context before jumping all over what people say in a thread.
I don't think there can be much doubt that women suffer considerably from a popular culture that frequently cases them as sex objects. It seems perfectly reasonable that women who worry about their partner's use of pornography also report lower self esteem and less satisfaction in their relationship. No surprise, also, that pornography, which is overwhelmingly targeted to a male audience, affects the expectations of both parties in a relationship. Women come to believe that certain sex acts are obligatory, so that intimacy becomes a kind of service. Eager for their partners to replicate what they see on screen, some men become reckless and selfish in their expectations. Unsurprisingly, researchers have actually found that some young men gradually lose interest in their actual partners, who are inevitably imperfect by comparison with pornographic actresses.
I suspect that these problems are even more distressing today than was true in previous centuries, when although there was greater pressure to marry, matches were more frequently arranged, martial happiness less expected by either party, and divorce often socially infeasible. I've always suspected that the aggressive uptick in divorce is more the sign of a healthy recession of patriarchal dominance than proof that society has given up on the ideal of white picket fences. Granted, the reasons for marital unhappiness may have changed: both men and women of the last twenty years were raised in an environment designed to flatter their individual sense of self-worth, greatly inflating attitudes of entitlement. (This, combined with self-service media and confusion about how to solve social and geopolitical problems so vast they confound the putative experts, has given rise to an almost aggressively ignorant populist politics of the Tea Party, and the broad rejection of those very same experts as "out-of-touch" or "biased.") In short, people feel empowered to "try again" for better results to a degree that was once unthinkable.
This article goes too far, however. While the above phenomenon are arguably responsible for increasing the number of people who will make bad partners, it doesn't prove that a significant number of young men are socially hopeless or misogynistic. Women can't find a man to have a conversation with? Impossible. What they really mean is, "I can't find a man with whom I want to carry on a relationship." That's a very substantial difference. It's also no surprise. For one thing, single people are apt to complain about being lonesome. These are the same women who complain that all they ever meet are "jerks." If you're the only variable in the equation, you're also the source of the error. (The same is true of men who complain that "all women are crazy.") There's nothing wrong with being picky -- except that the complaint, "I can't find a nice guy!"/"Find me a girl who isn't nuts!" doesn't fool anybody.
It's true, look at them all
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My issue at 51 (and single) is, "Find me an age-appropriate woman who isn't either a) as big as a house or b) crazy or c) holding out for someone that looks like George Clooney 10 years ago, and is a doctor/CEO/Nobel Prize winner who also rock climbs and volunteers at soup kitchens."
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