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0 pointsfreyir6y ago0 comments

> fewer (proportionately) young men are having sex,

Thanks. That's what I meant, but I certainly should have worded it better. I've updated my comment.

> If we assume that people with homosexual orientation attempting to conform to a heteronormative society would tend to have more trouble maintaining stable relations and thus cycle through relationships more frequently...

So if I understand you correctly, your theory is that closeted lesbians were sleeping with so many men that it inflated the statistics? And now that homosexual women no longer feel constrained by societal norms, a significant number of men are left with nobody to have sex with?

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dragonwriter6y ago

> So if I understand you correctly, your theory is that closeted lesbians were sleeping with so many men that it inflated the statistics?

Well, it's an effect which would explain the results. It's not really my theory, which is that it's a complex of different things, including several that the author explicitly dismisses without any significant basis (or by citing a basis which seems incorrect.) The homosexuality one is one of them.

Most of the series of things the author asserts affected both sexes similarly (“obesity, porn, video games, social media, dating apps, and wariness re harassment claims”) seem likely not to have done so similarly (that's seems particularly true of both porn and wariness re: harassment claims.)

shard9726y ago

Have you considered in complex of different things that people like myself are in gay relationships because they couldn't find a female partner?

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