I can’t believe there is yet another round of boring as all hell bellyaching about young people having sex. I won’t even link to it because these overwrought pieces about the horribly dissolute younger generation crop up with scary regularity and they are all exactly the same. This year it’s Tinder, two years ago it was the “college hookup culture,” before that it was rainbow parties, etc.
It’s like the moment 50 – year-olds hit the inevitable hormonal change, they react with these weird erotic fantasies about the out-of-control youngsters having tons of crazy sex. It’s embarrassing to watch. My blogroll is crowded with articles by freaked out folks at the age of sexual decline who are trying to spur their flaccid libido with these silly Tinder fantasies. My only question is why they can’t do all this in private.
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The ones who CAN do it in private, are. Pun intended. There are adult clubs catering to people in their 50s and 60s, and older.
There are also people who were taught as kids that sex was evil, have never outgrown that, and want to make life miserable for as many others as possible. Are these the ones you are hearing?
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Exactly. People who are happy in their own sex lives will not engage in these public masturbatory fantasies like the ones in the stupid Vanity Fair article.
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What’s a rainbow party?
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Nevermind. I don’t think I really wanted to know.
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Hmm… I thought your generation was the one that had them all the time. 🙂
It’s oral sex parties where everybody uses lipstick of different shades.
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It looks like those were a little before my time, actually. :p The myth began perpetuating in earnest when I was still in primary school.
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Those over 50s that are well researched are worried for exactly the opposite reason. Our younger generations are actually having less sex than their parents…the worry is they are exchanging real life relationships for less satisfying interactions via the internet.
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“OMG!! College hookup rainbow parties set up with oxogonal Tinder invites and Chatroulettes! On Tumblr, on Grindr, on Tinder, on Twitter! On Foursquare, on Whatsapp, on blenders, on WiFi! On AirBnB, on Uber, on Lyft, investor grift!!! Get off my lawn! Not on my lawn!”
— typical sex think piece by the old and bothered people.
You can tell the marketing geniuses here have no idea how young’uns hook up
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I’ve never hooked up with anyone from Tinder, but I did get someone on Tinder to buy me a pizza! 🙂
Are they just jealous that they have no pizza?
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Unrelated, but I love this picture.
https://twitter.com/teedubya/status/629994172691296256
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The best. 🙂 It is very much related because it’s in the same vein of “oh, those horrible youngsters.”
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ROFLMAO.
Women are much more prone to give up their seats for others and hold open doors for other people, IME. If I’m going to ask a random stranger for help, it’s more likely to be a woman than a man.
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Yes. The drivers who offered us a lift in the rain last week were all women, no exceptions. Of course, men would have offered a lift had I been alone. But when they see one with a man, that’s it, no help ever.
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