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    Baby boomers robbed Millennials of their youth

    The share of U.S. adults reporting no sex in the past year reached an all-time high in 2018, underscoring a three-decade trend line marked by an aging population and higher numbers of unattached people.

    But among the 23 percent of adults — or nearly 1 in 4 — who spent the year in a celibate state, a much larger than expected number of them were 20-something men, according to the latest data from the General Social Survey.

    Experts who study Americans’ bedroom habits say there are a number of factors driving the Great American Sex Drought. Age is one of them: The 60-and-older demographic climbed from 18 percent of the population in 1996 to 26 percent in 2018, according to the survey. The share reporting no sex has consistently hovered around 50 percent, and because that age group is growing relative to everyone else, it has the net effect of reducing the overall population’s likelihood of having sex.

    But changes at the other end of the age spectrum may be playing an even bigger role. The portion of Americans 18 to 29 reporting no sex in the past year more than doubled between 2008 and 2018, to 23 percent.

    Jean Twenge, professor of psychology at San Diego State University and author of iGen: Why Today’s Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy — and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood, said in an interview that growing sexlessness among America’s 20-somethings is primarily attributable to partnering up later in life.

    “There are more people in their twenties who don’t have a live-in partner,” she said. “So under those circumstances I think less sex is going to happen."

    Americans in their 30s, 40s and beyond, meanwhile, are much more likely to be married than those in their 20s. These age groups are now more likely to have sex in a given year than their younger peers.

    The data also show a significant gender divide among 20-somethings.

    For most of the past three decades, 20-something men and women reported similar rates of sexlessness. But that has changed in recent years. Since 2008, the share of men younger than 30 reporting no sex has nearly tripled, to 28 percent. That’s a much steeper increase than the 8 percentage point increase reported among their female peers.

    There are several potential explanations for this, Twenge said. Labor force participation among young men has fallen, particularly in the aftermath of the last recession. Researchers also see a “connection between labor force participation and stable relationships,” she said.

    The survey showed, for instance, that 54 percent of unemployed Americans didn’t have a steady romantic partner, compared with 32 percent among the employed.

    Young men also are more likely to be living with their parents than young women: In 2014, for instance, 35 percent of men age 18 to 34 were living in their parents’ home, compared with 29 percent of women in that age group. At the risk of stating the obvious, “when you’re living at home it’s probably harder to bring sexual partners into your bedroom,” Twenge said.

    One final factor that may be affecting Americans’ sexual habits at all ages is technology. “There are a lot more things to do at 10 o’clock at night now than there were 20 years ago,” Twenge said. “Streaming video, social media, console games, everything else.”

    That may speak to the drop-off among the sexually active: The share of people who are having relations once a week or more now sits at 39 percent, compared with 51 percent in 1996.
    Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/busin...=.467daaa03f95

    You know your country is in complete omnishambles when young people literally become so isolated that they won't engage in normal interactions with each other. Thanks for the 2007 financial meltdown, boomers. Thanks for useless college degrees. Thanks for beyond ludicrous hiring requirements. Thanks for stagnated wages. Thanks for inflated housing prices. Thanks for destroying the economy. Feel proud of being the generation that fucked our once great country right into the ground.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Wilfire View Post
    Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/busin...=.467daaa03f95

    You know your country is in complete omnishambles when young people literally become so isolated that they won't engage in normal interactions with each other. Thanks for the 2007 financial meltdown, boomers. Thanks for useless college degrees. Thanks for beyond ludicrous hiring requirements. Thanks for stagnated wages. Thanks for inflated housing prices. Thanks for destroying the economy. Feel proud of being the generation that fucked our once great country right into the ground.
    Maybe you just need to pull yourself up by your boot straps young man.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Wilfire View Post
    Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/busin...=.467daaa03f95

    You know your country is in complete omnishambles when young people literally become so isolated that they won't engage in normal interactions with each other. Thanks for the 2007 financial meltdown, boomers. Thanks for useless college degrees. Thanks for beyond ludicrous hiring requirements. Thanks for stagnated wages. Thanks for inflated housing prices. Thanks for destroying the economy. Feel proud of being the generation that fucked our once great country right into the ground.
    As a boomer... there are a few things I have to say.

    Number 1: I am so so so so so so … so so so sorry

    My excuse is: I fought as hard as I could to make things better. I got crushed.

    First of all when Bush got elected, leading to the Middle East wars which drained trillions of dollars from our treasury as well as killing off thousands of troops - the dead troops were your generation. Then came the Mancession - basically high paying mostly white male jobs that just disappeared, never to return. This would not have happened if Gore were President those 8 years instead of Bush.

    Second of all when Obama got elected, and then did the BARE MINIMUM to help out your generation. Better than Bush by HUGE MILES, and he DID repair most (some?) of the damage that Bush did not only to millennials, but also to everyone else. But he really did do the BARE MINIMUM. It was not by accident that his term is when the big fracking recovery happened instead of the wind/solar power recovery.

    Finally, our generation is what is responsible for Trump being President. This needs no further discussion.

    There is a picture in the Brexit thread of a pro-Brexit demonstration. No one under 40, almost all males, not a non-white to be seen.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Omega10 View Post
    As a boomer... there are a few things I have to say.

    Number 1: I am so so so so so so … so so so sorry

    My excuse is: I fought as hard as I could to make things better. I got crushed.

    First of all when Bush got elected, leading to the Middle East wars which drained trillions of dollars from our treasury as well as killing off thousands of troops - the dead troops were your generation. Then came the Mancession - basically high paying mostly white male jobs that just disappeared, never to return. This would not have happened if Gore were President those 8 years instead of Bush.

    Second of all when Obama got elected, and then did the BARE MINIMUM to help out your generation. Better than Bush by HUGE MILES, and he DID repair most (some?) of the damage that Bush did not only to millennials, but also to everyone else. But he really did do the BARE MINIMUM. It was not by accident that his term is when the big fracking recovery happened instead of the wind/solar power recovery.

    Finally, our generation is what is responsible for Trump being President. This needs no further discussion.

    There is a picture in the Brexit thread of a pro-Brexit demonstration. No one under 40, almost all males, not a non-white to be seen.

    I fought as hard as I could. Really I did. I apologize for losing More like getting creamed
    Boomers fucked up stuff before Bush. The destruction of unions, disappearance of the middle class, over cost of education, under funding of education, the housing market collapse (that the boomers are in the process of repeating) and lack of on the job training was dying out before Bush.

    Likewise Obama tried to do what the younger age group wanted: Act in a bipartisan fashion. The problem with that? The boomer generation, the boomer party (the GOP) took advantage of that and refused to even consider extending a bipartisan hand. So Obama did was he was elected to do, the problem was that the opposition party did nothing but act in bad faith.
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    Sex is fun. But often not worth the bullshit required to get it. I'll just stick to fuck buddies and keep my Free time and Money for myself.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Wilfire View Post
    You know your country is in complete omnishambles when young people literally become so isolated that they won't engage in normal interactions with each other. Thanks for the 2007 financial meltdown, boomers. Thanks for useless college degrees. Thanks for beyond ludicrous hiring requirements. Thanks for stagnated wages. Thanks for inflated housing prices. Thanks for destroying the economy. Feel proud of being the generation that fucked our once great country right into the ground.
    So you are saying you want to, "Make America Great Again"?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Wilfire View Post
    Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/busin...=.467daaa03f95

    You know your country is in complete omnishambles when young people literally become so isolated that they won't engage in normal interactions with each other. Thanks for the 2007 financial meltdown, boomers. Thanks for useless college degrees. Thanks for beyond ludicrous hiring requirements. Thanks for stagnated wages. Thanks for inflated housing prices. Thanks for destroying the economy. Feel proud of being the generation that fucked our once great country right into the ground.
    How horrible... Thank Carter and the Democrats for the poison pill to the economy that became 2007... Thank the intellectually lazy for their own bullshit college degrees. Own the consequences of your actions and the actions you support. You got Bush because people were tired of Slick Willy and his party and there was no way to prevent FL from voting for Bush in 2000 (if only there had been a way to keep the angry Cuban Ex-pats from voting for Bush to punish the Democrats).

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    So the baby boomers are why millennials aren't having sex?

    Wat? That doesn't even make any sense. If anything the internet has more to do with that than anything else.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Toppy View Post
    Boomers fucked up stuff before Bush. The destruction of unions, disappearance of the middle class, over cost of education, under funding of education, the housing market collapse (that the boomers are in the process of repeating) and lack of on the job training was dying out before Bush.

    Likewise Obama tried to do what the younger age group wanted: Act in a bipartisan fashion. The problem with that? The boomer generation, the boomer party (the GOP) took advantage of that and refused to even consider extending a bipartisan hand. So Obama did was he was elected to do, the problem was that the opposition party did nothing but act in bad faith.

    Good point. After all, the boomer party made it quite clear early on that their number one priority was not the welfare of the US, but making President Obama a one term President. In his defense, it could be very forcefully argued that he did the best he could given the hand he was given.

    And although he was late to the party on supporting Gay Marriage, when he finally did, acceptance of Gay Marriage among Blacks rose significantly. When Obama spoke... people DID listen. And this I even give a

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    It's not necessarily bad or alarming yet, it's just the landscape changing as you'd expect from tech, inequality and general uncertainty. There's a lack of existential predictability and job-security right now. People are guided by pain and pleasure with more available options and opportunities in some areas combined with the lack of the same in other areas. Goes to show how easily democracy and common sense are subverted when accountability and cooperation before all, for the benefit of all, become foreign principles both at the micro and macro levels - the places they matter the most making the biggest impacts on individuals as well as the world they share and shape with each other.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Omega10 View Post
    As a boomer... there are a few things I have to say.

    Number 1: I am so so so so so so … so so so sorry
    Not a boomer. Proof right there.

    Second proof. Knows what a forum and the internet is.
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    why so mad bro

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    I do not think it is boomers to blame for the lack of children. One could say that perhaps the lack of decent paying jobs that even a high school education can get you into the middle class is a reason? The world changed and with it so will less upward mobility as capitalism starts to concentrate. Monetary reasons are the big reason why you will continue to see less and less children, if they become so expensive to have then less will be had. I wonder how much merit the prevalence of easy to access porn is a problem in regards to these things? Regardless a 1 size fits all solution can not be for a topic like this because of the change in culture alone.

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    I don't know if it was baby boomers, but if economics are the reason why 20 somethings are not having sex, the fault rests on the people who voted for Reagan and made business only about maximizing profits.

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    Most don't want to have to end up paying child support over an accident. The internet helps take care of any urges. But one thing that sticks out is women that like to use the rape card. After concenting to have sex with a guy. It's easier these days to have men arrested on false charges. MGTOW so far has worked. Most men aren't afraid of being alone and surviving. It works out just fine.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Toppy View Post
    Boomers fucked up stuff before Bush. The destruction of unions, disappearance of the middle class, over cost of education, under funding of education, the housing market collapse (that the boomers are in the process of repeating) and lack of on the job training was dying out before Bush.

    Likewise Obama tried to do what the younger age group wanted: Act in a bipartisan fashion. The problem with that? The boomer generation, the boomer party (the GOP) took advantage of that and refused to even consider extending a bipartisan hand. So Obama did was he was elected to do, the problem was that the opposition party did nothing but act in bad faith.
    Bipartisan isn't pushing through your own agenda and the other side of the aisle going along with it. The GOP didn't agree with Obama because our economic collapse was the result of socialist policies, which Obama was pushing more of. The GOP was trying to reign in spending and failed thanks to Democrats. The Democrats spending policies and over-protection of unions is what crushed our economy over the last 40 years and why young people are failing to launch.

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    Honestly... the causes are so multi-faceted.

    What I feel is that there is a tremendous gap in trust between the two sexes.

    This breeds rancid insecurities.

    I bet those young guys are like, “Welp, I don’t have a 5” circumference cock that is 8” long or more. I will never please a woman.”

    I bet the younger women, “I don’t have Jen Selter’s booty, Rhianna’s Lips, Jessica Nigri’s nerdy personality. I will never hold a man’s attention.”

    Trust and insecurity has to be at an all time high in today’s world.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Omega10 View Post
    As a boomer... there are a few things I have to say.

    Number 1: I am so so so so so so … so so so sorry

    My excuse is: I fought as hard as I could to make things better. I got crushed.

    First of all when Bush got elected, leading to the Middle East wars which drained trillions of dollars from our treasury as well as killing off thousands of troops - the dead troops were your generation. Then came the Mancession - basically high paying mostly white male jobs that just disappeared, never to return. This would not have happened if Gore were President those 8 years instead of Bush.

    Second of all when Obama got elected, and then did the BARE MINIMUM to help out your generation. Better than Bush by HUGE MILES, and he DID repair most (some?) of the damage that Bush did not only to millennials, but also to everyone else. But he really did do the BARE MINIMUM. It was not by accident that his term is when the big fracking recovery happened instead of the wind/solar power recovery.

    Finally, our generation is what is responsible for Trump being President. This needs no further discussion.

    There is a picture in the Brexit thread of a pro-Brexit demonstration. No one under 40, almost all males, not a non-white to be seen.

    I fought as hard as I could. Really I did. I apologize for losing More like getting creamed
    According to the Strauss-Howe generational theory; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straus...ational_theory

    The boomers were destined to bring the world to a dark place and every 4th generation has brought some kind of war or upheaval. This is built into our evolution so there is a purpose for it but it still sucks.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Harekrsna View Post
    Bipartisan isn't pushing through your own agenda and the other side of the aisle going along with it. The GOP didn't agree with Obama because our economic collapse was the result of socialist policies, which Obama was pushing more of. The GOP was trying to reign in spending and failed thanks to Democrats. The Democrats spending policies and over-protection of unions is what crushed our economy over the last 40 years and why young people are failing to launch.

    You are so laughably incorrect.

    Economists argue over what caused “The Reagan Boom”. Some say it was the policies then Fed Chairman Paul Volcker instituted, others that it was the marginal tax cuts under Reagan that got the economy moving. Looking at it from a historical perspective it seems to me a couple of things should be considered. Since “The Reagan Revolution” it has become Republican gospel that tax cuts, particularly for the wealthy, will grow the economy, increase employment and won’t adversely affect the deficit. Again and again, this turns out to be untrue.

    President Reagan’s tax cuts grew the deficit to such an alarming degree that he eventually pushed to raise taxes during his first term. We did get increased employment early on but Defense spending had a lot to do with that. As someone said at the time, I’m paraphrasing here, “Give me a blank check and I can create an illusion of prosperity too.”

    President Carter is a favorite whipping post for Republicans, but many of the economic problems he faced were inherited . “The Great Inflation” actually began in the ’60s and was then exacerbated by the oil crisis of the mid ‘70s. Turning around an economy in a single term ain’t easy for a president. By the time Carter appointed Volcker, not his first choice it should be noted, the tough medicine the new Fed Chair was suggesting wasn’t going to help ol’ Jimmy in his reelection bid. But Carter went with it anyway putting country before his own political prospects, a rare move for a sitting president.

    This tough medicine came in the form of increased interest rates and this led to a recession during Reagan’s presidency. At a seemingly very dark moment, Volcker made his move. He decreased interest rates substantially. The economy took off. The fact that we were spending over 6% of GDP on Defense didn’t hurt. Raising taxes in ’82 did nothing to stop the growth.

    So who gets credit for this economic boom that led to the whole “Morning in America” thing? Carter put Volcker in as Fed Chairman even though it cost him dearly. Reagan went with Volcker’s agenda and could have rejected it. Volcker came up with the program so certainly seems to deserve major kudos. Again, some economists dismiss his contribution, preferring to credit the marginal tax cuts.

    So did President Reagan leave America worse off? Well, there’s little doubt that the economy improved in the early years of his presidency. But over the course of his eight years a major shift occurred in American society. The war on labor began with labor unions the big target. Manufacturing started to move offshore and the financial sector became the big mover and shaker displacing the industrial sector to a large degree. This dynamic has been in place ever since.

    If you were one of the lucky folks in the top fifth of income, Reagan was very good to you. Your incomes rose 14%. The bottom fifth saw their incomes drop 24% and middle class incomes kinda stagnated. From The Reagan Revolution until the crash of ’08 that stagnation remained in place and the middle class actually lost significant ground. 1980 marked the beginning of conservative domination of US economic policy. It can’t be said that these policies have been good for average Americans. Yet, the politicians who push this agenda keep getting elected. You have to hand it to them, they’re able to avoid the blame they so richly deserve and foist it on liberals, immigrants and minorities, three groups who aren’t responsible for a single piece of economic legislation.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Super Kami Dende View Post
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    So you are saying you want to, "Make America Great Again"?
    I'm not American and even I would support that notion, but not the way Dorito-Man imagines (or keeps trying to sell) it.

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