<story><title>Sex is going out of fashion?</title><url>https://www.welltechnically.news/p/sex-is-going-out-of-fashion</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bko</author><text>Entertainment has entered a tyranny of choice. I see it personally. I can watch nearly every show and movie that was ever created but I still flip through Netflix and RT endlessly, often times choosing not to watch anything. When I was younger I would just watch Seinfeld re-runs, with commercials and all. Am I more &amp;quot;entertained&amp;quot; today than I was when I was growing up? I&amp;#x27;m not convinced.&lt;p&gt;The weirdest thing is I don&amp;#x27;t remember what I used to talk to my friends about when I was in high school. We didn&amp;#x27;t have much shared media to talk about (e.g. periodic TV shows people obsess about today). None of us so much picked up a newspaper at the time so current events were out. None of us had that many specific interests and the interests we had weren&amp;#x27;t shared. But somehow we spent hours talking about something. I wish I could be a fly on the wall of my prom table to just take in what was discussed.</text></item><item><author>ChuckNorris89</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t think tech or porn is the main culprit. It&amp;#x27;s that people now have way more entertainment options other than sex. Of course, a lot for those entertainment options are being driven by tech.&lt;p&gt;Back in my dad&amp;#x27;s days, they were poor so the only entertainment options in their free time was drinking cheap home made alcohol, dancing and sex, while now we have gaming, Netflix, tic-tok, porn, traveling to the infinite Instagramable places around the world, plus the grind of keeping up with spiraling living and real estate costs, which IMHO, is the real bummer here.&lt;p&gt;Also, adult dating and meeting people for the post-college working professionals,  has largely moved from clubs&amp;#x2F;bars&amp;#x2F;the office to online dating apps, or lonely depression in your apartment, eating or drinking your feelings away, for those without success in the WFH, remote-everything, online dating world. Especially with the lockdowns.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>skohan</author><text>Not only entertainment suffers from a tyranny of choice, but also sex and relationships.&lt;p&gt;I heard in an interview that 50 years ago, people used to basically used to fall in love with heir neighbours and coworkers.  Modern dating means browsing hundreds of other people in your city like they&amp;#x27;re products on a store shelf, always with the feeling there might be someone better just a couple swipes away.</text></comment>
<story><title>Sex is going out of fashion?</title><url>https://www.welltechnically.news/p/sex-is-going-out-of-fashion</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bko</author><text>Entertainment has entered a tyranny of choice. I see it personally. I can watch nearly every show and movie that was ever created but I still flip through Netflix and RT endlessly, often times choosing not to watch anything. When I was younger I would just watch Seinfeld re-runs, with commercials and all. Am I more &amp;quot;entertained&amp;quot; today than I was when I was growing up? I&amp;#x27;m not convinced.&lt;p&gt;The weirdest thing is I don&amp;#x27;t remember what I used to talk to my friends about when I was in high school. We didn&amp;#x27;t have much shared media to talk about (e.g. periodic TV shows people obsess about today). None of us so much picked up a newspaper at the time so current events were out. None of us had that many specific interests and the interests we had weren&amp;#x27;t shared. But somehow we spent hours talking about something. I wish I could be a fly on the wall of my prom table to just take in what was discussed.</text></item><item><author>ChuckNorris89</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t think tech or porn is the main culprit. It&amp;#x27;s that people now have way more entertainment options other than sex. Of course, a lot for those entertainment options are being driven by tech.&lt;p&gt;Back in my dad&amp;#x27;s days, they were poor so the only entertainment options in their free time was drinking cheap home made alcohol, dancing and sex, while now we have gaming, Netflix, tic-tok, porn, traveling to the infinite Instagramable places around the world, plus the grind of keeping up with spiraling living and real estate costs, which IMHO, is the real bummer here.&lt;p&gt;Also, adult dating and meeting people for the post-college working professionals,  has largely moved from clubs&amp;#x2F;bars&amp;#x2F;the office to online dating apps, or lonely depression in your apartment, eating or drinking your feelings away, for those without success in the WFH, remote-everything, online dating world. Especially with the lockdowns.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chrismarlow9</author><text>Podcasts changed the game for me on this. Now there are entire days where I never turn the TV on. A bonus is that I can get basic chores done while listening or workout. It really freed me from the couch potato routine. A bonus is that many of them are educational and released weekly, so &amp;quot;binge&amp;quot; isn&amp;#x27;t really an option. There are certainly &amp;quot;junk food&amp;quot; podcasts that I listen to but the ratio of informative to junk compared to video content(movies, tv shows, etc) is way better. Though I will say YouTube has some excellent channels for learning.&lt;p&gt;Podcasts are similar to books though, you have to dig through a bit of garbage to find one that works for you. Here&amp;#x27;s my list:&lt;p&gt;- crime in sports&lt;p&gt;- Linux unplugged&lt;p&gt;- software engineering radio&lt;p&gt;- the knowledge project&lt;p&gt;- coinsec&lt;p&gt;- persona&lt;p&gt;- ten percent happier&lt;p&gt;- quanta podcast&lt;p&gt;- physics world weekly&lt;p&gt;- ologies&lt;p&gt;- darknet diaries&lt;p&gt;- stuff you should know&lt;p&gt;- the joy of why&lt;p&gt;- fall of civilizations&lt;p&gt;- smartless&lt;p&gt;- money talks&lt;p&gt;- planet money&lt;p&gt;- small town murder&lt;p&gt;- offensive security&lt;p&gt;- the journal&lt;p&gt;- programming throwdown&lt;p&gt;- timesuck&lt;p&gt;- Conan O&amp;#x27;Brien needs a friend&lt;p&gt;- philosophize this&lt;p&gt;- against the odds&lt;p&gt;- levar Burton reads (no longer running)&lt;p&gt;- curiosity daily&lt;p&gt;- science weekly&lt;p&gt;- future of journalism&lt;p&gt;- wtf&lt;p&gt;- broken record&lt;p&gt;- idea cast&lt;p&gt;- swindled&lt;p&gt;- malicious life&lt;p&gt;- views room&lt;p&gt;- behind the bastards&lt;p&gt;- the exchange&lt;p&gt;- stuff to blow your mind&lt;p&gt;And for the &amp;quot;junk&amp;quot; I listen to just about every comedian podcast that exists: Bill Burr, Bobby Lee, Chris destefano, Stavros!, Tom Segura, (this list goes on a while...)</text></comment>