What she is describing can be summarized simply as low libido. These are women with a weakened to non-existent sex drive. If only we could isolate a libido-lowering factor. Maybe a medication of some sort that only women take throughout their mating years. I have no idea what it might be. Hmm…..
Have the long-term studies ever even been done, to determine the safety/effects of using that stuff throughout the teen years, while still growing?
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Once you know how they work, it becomes very clear that there have to be consequences from something like that. But we don’t talk about the consequences until we have a generation of women clinically unable to pair up. And then we blame everything instead of looking at the actual physical causes.
Half the 20somethings I know were taking it at 13.
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Here’s a depressing article from two years ago. Doesn’t even address the *most common* iteration.
https://time.com/6468975/teens-long-acting-contraceptives/
They’ve got the CDC reporting:
22% of girls age 15-19 in the US using emergency contraception (aka planB), and 19% using IUDs and implants.
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…after a ‘private’ convo with the gyn, where they confessed to being ‘active’, and then the doc kindly explained to the parent that it was for ‘irregularity’ or ‘cramps’ or even ‘acne’.
Know one parent who questioned whether it was a good idea for longterm health, asked the right questions… and the doc threatened to report them child protective services.
“women with a weakened to non-existent sex drive”
To spell it out for those in back…. and without getting into the origins….. these long list of requirements are to ensure that no man can make the grade and they can stay alone while “complaining” about how real mean just don’t measure up….
In the past, if they could muster any religious feeling they might become nuns.
I predict that a lot of them, if they feel lonely enough, might “discover” they’re lesbians and settle into platonic Boston marriages.
That might be the best possible outcome in the given situation.
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That’s exactly what I’m saying. They don’t want a guy. They don’t know how to want a guy. And they have no explanation for why. So they invent all these excuses, it’s sad really. The normal impulse for a person is to be paired up. And yes, there have always been exceptions. But in these quantities?? Sorry, that’s abnormal.
This on one hand, scads of young women with seemingly no standards on the other. A sad situation.
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Of course, there’s also the psych drugs.
We all know what SSRI use does to sexual function in adults. What happens if you’ve been on that crap from age 8? The overall rate in teens was something like… 8%, but more girls than boys so more like 10% in girls. That number is really, really hard to find, because it has gotten swamped (deliberately hidden?) in search results by ten thousand dumb blurbs citing a study that goes on and on about how much rates of psych scrips have gone up since covid… without ever mentioning *what the actual rates are*. Saying something has gone up 63% is totally meaningless if you don’t know how much you started with, or how much you ended with. I hate endless repetition of meaningless numbers to hide real numbers! Bastards.
Do we know anything *at all* about amphetamine (adderall, ritalin) use in children, and subsequent sexual function in adulthood? Has the question even been asked?
We grew up with a steady diet of perfect men who could do it all..
What does that even mean?
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Those times when you wish a person used an AI…
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