<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>justinpowers</author><text>If you became that fly, you’d soon wish to be squashed rather than listen to adolescent chitchat.</text></comment>