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Gen Z Needs To Have More Sex · The imuRgency Room

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It's said that young Americans aged between 18 to 23 were
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having 14% less casual fix that means outside of a relationship
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in comparison to those a decade before.
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Let me tell you why being sullivant and waiting to
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marriage is the ultimate flex. Like when you get this.
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Badge When you have this badge and you carry your cross every
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single. Day and people care like oh you
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you wait until. Marriage.
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They look at you different. Say it with me Bettering
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yourself does not make you better than others.
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Bettering yourself does not make you better than others.
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I think we may have taking this celibacy thing too far.
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Hey guys, it's UPS Emergency and welcome and welcome back to my
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channel. As feral and freaked out as
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social media may make it seem, Gen.
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Z just isn't really doing the nasty anymore.
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Or at least that's what the streets are saying.
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You may have seen online discourse about people choosing
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celibacy, and there does seem to really be a rise in popularity
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with this movement, with more people talking about it,
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committing to it, and advocating for it.
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And as with everything, there are many reasons to this uptick
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in abstaining from Como City, say, schmexual activity, with
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some of it being tea and some of it being a little scary.
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And we're going to talk about all the nuances and thoughts
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behind that. So sit back, grab a snack, and
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get ready for some schmuck sad emergency style.
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Now to get this conversation started, we got to understand
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that this is not all just online discourse.
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There are actually studies that prove Gen.
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Z is having sex less than previous generations.
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According to data analyzed from a study by the Institute for
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Family Studies from 2024, weekly sexual activity among US adults
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aged 18 to 64 fell from 55% in 1990 to 37% in 2024.
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And that's a whole 18% drop. And this drop doesn't just come
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from nowhere. There are actual reasons this
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generation is choosing to have less.
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And mind you, this may be shocked you're gonna hear a lot
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of it is by choice. I mean, maybe not for everyone
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and that's how we get the birth of things like in cells.
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But for the sake of this video, we're talking about people who
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are intentionally choosing to be celibate.
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And as you know, as we like to do on this channel, I did decide
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to get a little journalistic with it and have done some
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interviews talking to some of y'all about your thoughts and
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opinions around Gen. C celibacy and just generally
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the rest of y'all sick lives. Like, I think we've got a little
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bit too close to each other at this point.
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But before we go any further, let's get this out the way
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first. When we're talking about things
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like celibacy and abstinence and like withholding yourself or
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whatever, let's actually figure out is it abstinence or is it
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celibacy? And is there a difference
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between the two? Well, yes.
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And the difference be kicking all of our asses.
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So let me know if I'm wrong but my current definition of
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celibacy is a more lasting commitment to not having sex or
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intimate relationships. And is abstinence being a more
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temporary one or no? Like let me know if I got that
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different. Oftentimes these terms are used
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interchangeably, which contrary to popular belief, they are not
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exactly the same. Now there are some key
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differences in the 2 terms, but the Venn diagram circles
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definitely do be overlapping big time.
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OK for both celibacy and abstinence, as you may have
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gathered at this point it is the decision to not engage or
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abstain from sexual activities. Now As for the biggest
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difference between the two relates to the amount of time
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abstinence. While it does sound very
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antiquated and very like formal and rigid, I'm just thinking
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like an old timey movie where like they have transatlantic
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accents and they're like, oh wow, imagine this is a
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transatlantic accent. Actually, Eustis and Muriel
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decided to be abstinence A, and I don't believe that.
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What happened to good old chastity?
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Anyways, abstinence is typically thought of as being more time
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bound and that time binding restriction typically revolves
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around marriage. But as we're going to see, it
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can also revolve around abstaining for a short term
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period, like for exams, busy work periods, moments of
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healing, etcetera, etcetera. Essentially kind of views as
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like markers of times where you're like locking in and
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locking out sex. Also when it comes to
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abstinence, typically you'd see in like old 2000s media a lot of
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jokes about women being abstinent but still being down a
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clown in other ways. And like those back door jokes,
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misogynist clearly, but you know, it was the early 2000s.
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But this is all to say that abstinence can have flexibility
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in terms of acts, but still usually abides by the more
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puritanical belief of saying you're saving yourself in terms
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of VJ penetration. At least.
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I'm sorry, there's no other way for me to really phrase this
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getting around the algorithm. But Vijay, penetration is meant
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to be for your husband. Spooky.
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And also fun fact, if you grew up in the US public school
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system, you may have been taught shrieked abstinence inside the
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comprehensive schmack said growing up.
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I know I definitely did. They definitely hammered down
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abstinence, abstinence, abstinence.
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But like if you are going to hook up usercon, but like also
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don't think about that unless you have a husband or a wife and
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you're ready to conceive, which is absolutely diabolical
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conditioning. So which at least for me growing
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up, abstinence did not have the best PR, but now it's a little
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bit more open. And we contrast this with
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celibacy which is more of a long term commitment, not really
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constricted to time or an end date rather.
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And this isn't to say that you can't call yourself celibate
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unless you've been abstaining for like X amount of time.
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But I do feel like the term celibacy has gained more
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popularity or PR if you will, especially recently as people
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are deciding to not have for various reasons, which we are
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going to get into. But like there also just seems
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to be a more spiritual and like personal growth connotation when
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it comes to celibacy versus a religious one for things like
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abstinence. Although through talking to
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people it seems like there is a religious undertone or at least
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a religious feeling traditionally with both terms.
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But in terms of celibacy, I feel like before now the main way
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celibacy was in the cultural zeitgeist was through the term
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incel, meaning involuntarily celibate, simply meaning that
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someone is celibate but not because they want to be
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abstaining. Essentially a guy or girl that
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can't pull right. So I feel at least celibacy
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carried a little bit of that connotation for a while, but as
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of recently that isn't the case. And of course, everything is up
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to personal choice and what boundaries you have regarding
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your celibacy or abstinence are really up to you as an
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individual. Like no one's calling the FBI to
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send the nukes on you because you've been two months celibate.
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Now. When I asked everyone that I
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interviewed where they fall on like the celibacy to abstinence
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to neither spectrum, most of them said this.
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I would consider myself abstinent for sure.
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I would consider myself abstinent, not celibate.
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I think I'm currently more abstinent than celibate.
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I don't really consider myself by any labels.
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I'm open to having sex if I find someone I want to have it with,
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but that just hasn't happened yet.
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I would say abstinence. I took a abstinence pledge and I
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had a ring too, when I was younger.
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When I was a teenager I took an abstinence pledge to not indulge
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into a marriage and so I will say abstinence because I want to
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eventually do it again, but hopefully with my husband, if
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that makes sense. And I just found it so
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interesting that most of them consider themselves to be
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abstinent for varying lengths of time and for various reasons,
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and that the confusion around the terms of celibacy and
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abstinence are also still definitely there for all of us,
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despite how we like to label it. And of course, the small sample
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size of people, while wonderful and amazing, aren't the complete
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picture of all of Gen. Z.
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It's still an interesting indication for where sentiments
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widely are around it. Gen.
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Z, based on the studies based Sunday articles and by the
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people that I interviewed, by and large are abstaining from
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intimacy. Now the $1,000,000 question is
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why? As someone that talks about Gen.
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Z culture a lot, it just seems that our generation is in a
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recession of everything. God damn.
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Like who would have thought we'd be in an intimacy recession too?
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But in all seriousness, I think when you put your thinking cap
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on and pull out that thought daughter journal, yes thought
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daughter, and no, not that kind of thought thought daughter.
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OK, it all makes sense in the end.
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Everything's connected to each other and I think our generation
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is increasingly aware of that. The hardships, the political
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involvement, having the freedom to choose.
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There are many reasons for why people are choosing to abstain
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from having intimacy. You're having sex.
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And for the sake of this video we've boiled it down to a few
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things starting strong with one of those first things being
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self-care and politics. Undeniably Gen.
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Z has been a very politically forward generation.
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I think Gen. Z practices their political
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beliefs more so than previous gens for sure.
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Not to get in our high horse but like we grew up watching and
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attending some of the largest political protests multiple
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times over the course of our lives.
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Like think BLM, March for our lives, Women's March to bring it
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more recently, No Kings Part 1 and 2 just to name a few.
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According to the Guardian, more than 60% of 18 to 29 year olds
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lead left and around 1/4 of Gen. Z identify as LGBTQ.
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Plus, depending on who you ask and how you ask the question,
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they are also increasingly secular.
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Gen. Z women might just be the most
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progressive cohort ever documented in U.S. history.
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Since 2008, they have veered hard to the left on issues such
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as the environment, gun role, and abortion.
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Meanwhile, 56% of young male voters backed accused SEC Donald
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Trump in the 2024 election. They mean Gen.
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Z have an unparalleled ability to infuse that political
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meaning. Compared to the generation's
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Gen. Z, adults are more likely to
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have attended a rally, volunteered, or posted online
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about a social issue that mattered to them.
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When Trump defeated Harris, left-leaning young people
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immediately converted their political fury into personal
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action, namely posing a SEC in the vein of the feminist South
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Korean 4B movement. If women are increasingly
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left-leaning, I mean as they probably should, and men are
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increasingly swinging, right, and you mix that together with
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people that stand on business, then you at least have a
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percentage of people having less sex.
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Because why would you F with someone that doesn't F with you?
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You know, Or at least like you're right to exist.
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It's kind of like the old adage, like you may need that, but
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like, does that need you? You just made that up and did.
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Now, am I saying that this is the whole reason for the
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hunching disparity? Absolutely not.
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But I do think when a person has a different set of values,
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especially when as drastic as like not thinking you deserve
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the right to vote, exist or have the same amount of rights and
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freedoms, then that does make the situation a little less
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sexy. I mean, unless you have like a
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degrading king, but even then there are some boundaries there
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that are getting crossed. And an important part of this
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whole conversation that I saw a lot in the comments of a TikTok
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video that I've made on this very same topic is that in a
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post Roe V Wade world, heterosexual women, or at least
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like women who also date men, see hookup culture as a high
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risk, low reward situation. Especially when you consider the
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current dating scene and the stats of men that support the
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removal of women's bodily autonomy.
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I think it's interesting, Roe V Wade was overturned when I was
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like 1516, so right when I was like, actually starting to like
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have more intimate relationships with people.
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Somehow I'm still in a very like high school ish environment.
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Like I'm people always say like, Oh my God, you're like so anti
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men or like they question like my sexuality and if I'm straight
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because of like some of my views.
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Sometimes like people are like, oh, you just haven't experienced
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love enough to make you do something someone wants.
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But I don't know. Sometimes I'm like, maybe my
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belief system is just so strong and I'm just so like confident
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in what I think because I'm a very stubborn person.
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So you can't make me do what I don't want to do.
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So I think that has just played into like my sex 5/2 in the
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sense that like if there any red flags, I'm quick to be like, you
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know, people say like I'm very strict.
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Like I'm quick to be like, OK, yeah, I know that's wrong.
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Bye. Like I'm not doing this.
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Like maybe on my part, that's also kind of bad because I'm
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like no conversation, nothing. I'm just like, nice meeting you,
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but no thanks. I suppose.
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Like maybe he's good, but just this one thing.
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Yeah, I know. If it's not all good for me, I'm
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like checked out. We're in a generation where
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women have had the most resources, abilities to be
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financially independent and not needing to rely on a man as a
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partner. Women don't need a man for sheer
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survival and to progress in life.
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In a previous video about Gen. Z not wanting kids, we briefly
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went over women's rights increasing that have yet to be
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taken away with increased rights like the equal credit
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opportunity Act in 1974 allowing women most only white women at
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the time to get their own credit lines and all the likes which
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would enable them to buy their own stuff and property.
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Before this, a man had to be part of the equation like.
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I was never raised with like that guilt around sex.
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However, I was always raised with the knowledge that sex is a
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very intimate act and to engage in something with someone, you
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want to be able to trust that person.
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And I think just over time, I'm like, I've almost grown jaded
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with like my experiences with feeling respected by different
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individuals and feeling like, oh, this is not the respect that
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you imagine be much more common amongst humans isn't always
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there. So I'm like, it made me view sex
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as more of like a sacred thing in a way, because I'm like, I
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don't want to just find someone who's like, disrespecting me.
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Who's? Like going to, if I send
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pictures, if I don't trust that, they're not going to share that
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to other people. So that's definitely been like
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an evolution over the past couple of years.
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Now this progress that we've gotten over the years does not
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mean that all barriers and challenges have been removed
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from women, just that there has been a needle pushing progress
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and now women don't have to choose between husband and kids
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were covenant. Not surprising, but women can be
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their own people. And because women don't have to
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be with men for their life's progression anymore, this is
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factored into the dating culture women by high percentage.
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And I'm not saying that this doesn't happen to men too.
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It definitely does run the risk of being assaulted, which is an
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ugly thing to just have to accept, like that one seed in
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the materialist where the matchmaker just kind of goes
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like, well, yeah, she got a. That's just the risk you run
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when you're a woman that's dating.
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And I think it's becoming a more common sentiment amongst women
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to want to reduce that risk of meeting strangers they don't
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know that could hurt them. Like not that being that could
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ever be the victim's fault, but women want to reduce their
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chances of being in an isolated situation with a man that could
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potentially harm them. I think like my absence has
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always been like self-imposed. Like I've never been like, oh,
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I'm going absent for a goal or for a reason.
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It solely was just like, I mean mainly safety, like safety,
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respect, all that shit I've said a million times, right, But I'm
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like for me to break it, I'd have to trust someone with like
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that intimacy and that like experience because I just I'm
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like, that's a pretty like large thing for some people in some
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situations for sure. I think another aspect of this
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is that we also live in a time where the Internet is filled
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with gender wars, and specifically gender wars content
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that's polarizing both men and women in vastly different
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directions. We've talked about the state of
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Gen. Z dating many times before, but
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this just seems like another Ave. where we're seeing this
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take place. Then we move to the dumorism and
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the libido of it all. Then another hypothesis as to
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why Gen. Z is the second generation has
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to do with dumorism and the lack of libido from having your life
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be under threat all the time. The researcher from the survey
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we mentioned before attributes that 18% drop in the lack of
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Schmack's to two things. They point to cohabitation in
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social time being significantly lower for previous generations,
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noting young adults aged 18 to 29 living with partners dropped
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from 42% to 32% between 2014 and 2024, while average weekly
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social time fell from 12.8 hours in 2010 to 6.5 hours in 2019,
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then to just five hours by 2024. Now.
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The study says less people live with their partners in this
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generation. And I'm going to speculate for a
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second and remind y'all shout out to that one housing video
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that roughly about 1/3 of Gen. Z still lives with their
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parents. Remember when I said
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everything's connected? Gen.
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Z's trajectory given external circumstances are showing in the
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lowering of the percentage of common milestones.
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For example, moving out of your parents place, an inn with a
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partner. And of course for a percentage
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of people, they choose not to live with their partners.
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And that's also fair. And I do want to say, except I
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see people in the comments, yes, it is possible to get a little
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frisky in your parents house because some of y'all, I would
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just feel like that. But I do feel like that fact to
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reduce the spaces for you to be intimate and casual with people.
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Also, the reduction of social time fell by 7 hours weekly 7
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hours. Seven days away.
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I don't know what possessed me. It's not seven days a week, 7
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hours weekly. So let's do some math really
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quick. If Gen.
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Z only spends 5 hours of their whole week, 180 hours that whole
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week being 168 hours by the way. But again, if they only spend 5
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hours of that whole week socializing, that includes
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things like hanging out, getting to do what you like, and seeing
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friends that just might cut the time allotted for sexy time.
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I don't know like I'll be saying time is money.
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Well, in that case, it seems like sexy time is going in the
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budget cuts. OK.
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And not that it necessarily does cut into that time, but it
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definitely does mean that we just have less time and less
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energy for it. And at least in my echo
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chambers, there's been a lot of conversations around reframing
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perspectives to decenter men or just the general potential of a
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partner in their lives and instead focusing on centering
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themselves and building that connection to themselves, their
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friends and loved ones. And if you're raised as a woman,
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it's no secret that day one messaging was that you should be
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catering to a man thinking through their lens, which
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essentially raises that internalized male gaze in your
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head. And I do think it's a practice
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to unlearn this, and I'm glad that it's becoming a more
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normalized conversation amongst women.
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And also just like experiences I've heard of like friends
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around me, like I see what happens with like my friends and
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people I know all the time when they like, like people like
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cheat on them and you like take them back.
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Like, I mean, there's so many like layers to this dynamics.
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And obviously like everyone is allowed to do what they want to
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do and what makes them happy and what they're comfortable with.
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But at the same time, it kind of like influences, like your
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decision making because you're just like, I love her to death,
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but I don't want to be that person.
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Like I don't want to be that person taking back this combat
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sheet in X and getting like an STI every other week.
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Like I'm so not ready for that. Like I can't.
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So now we got to talk about the biggie, the big part in this
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celibacy conversation, that one of the bigger underlying reasons
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behind why Gen. Z is abstaining from having
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intercourse. And that's the role of purity
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culture and how it may be affecting our sexual behaviors.
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Yes, the good old section where we got to mention the rise of
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conservatism. You know, we love to do it on
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this channel. Then again, everything is just
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so connected, from trout wives to nuclear family propaganda.
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It seems like the good old days of girl boss feminism are dead.
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And I'm begging us to please bring back 2016.
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Please. It just seems that many people
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of our generation are going back to those more traditional
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values, and their absence in celibacy stems from that place
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of purity culture. And when it comes to the
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conversation of celibacy, it is important to know the difference
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between celibacy and purity culture.
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I have a. Lot of thoughts about this
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because I don't think it's a coincidence that we're seeing
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this as we're seeing a rise in traditional values amongst Gen.
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Z Obviously there's severe political implications there,
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but there's also the fact that Gen.
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Z right now is the loneliest, most isolated generation in all
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of history. Do you know how bad that is for
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your health, physical and mental?
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According to the Surgeon General, loneliness negatively
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impacts your heart in the same way threat addiction does.
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OK, Like cutting all of your friends off to protect your
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peace and respect your boundaries and like, not going
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out because everybody's making terrible decisions for the
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health is like really not making you as healthy as you think it
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is. And like, it's your journey,
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babe. But like, don't judge other
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people who seem to be healthy and happy, you know what I'm
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saying? My point is, it's coerced.
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By the way. To me, it is obvious that purity
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culture is just patriarchy. Men controlling women's bodies.
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Let's say you don't like hookup culture.
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That's fine. You can make that decision
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because you are an adult that has bodily autonomy.
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You can give consent or choose not to give consent in this
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case, because it is your fundamental right to decide what
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happens to your body. No one could tell you how to
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exercise that right. That includes religious leaders.
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I am an emotional person as well.
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I'm a sexual and emotional being.
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You're allowed to like hold multiple truths at one time.
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That's being a human being. But this idea that like being
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like just. Immediate like y'all can keep.
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That shame Actually don't. I would encourage you to rid
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yourself of the shame that immediately comes with.
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Like being pleasure is allowed to be the end goal.
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Again, everyone can do what they want.
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It's just that the purity culture to alt right pipeline is
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just a hop skip and jump away. The whole narrative around
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thinking there's a definitive wrong way to practice or not
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practice in this case your sexuality gets tricky seeing
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things like abstinence as pure and having sex dirty.
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Like are we seeing the trajectory we're on here?
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I for one thought we were really past this mentality and that's
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because purity culture by and large is rooted in patriarchy.
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And I think it's worth reflecting on that if that's how
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you align yourself, especially when it comes to refraining from
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things in the name of shame and guilt in saving yourself from
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whoever is something that's worth interrogating.
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We don't like to talk about this often, but it is important to
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say that like seeing yourself in your body as a reward kind of
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gets into self objectification territory.
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Like of course you should have self worth and think of yourself
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highly, but quite literally think of yourself as a trophy
19:25
that needs to be won. Like, let's just think about the
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optics of that. I think that there's a very
19:30
large demonization of and there's a demonization of
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choosing your main absent or sell it.
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And I think a big thing that I had to learn is you're damned if
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you're do, you're damned if you don't.
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You know, just because someone says something doesn't mean you
19:44
should do it. And it's important, especially
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with stuff so personal with sex, like to find your own guide
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about what feels right for you. And if engaging with someone
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doesn't go right, you shouldn't. Even if people are like, like
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you're following like Christian propaganda, whatever.
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Like don't do it. Same thing, don't somewhat like
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don't abstain from sex just because you feel like you
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should. That's a personal decision
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between two consenting parties and.
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It's OK to not want something if you feel pressured otherwise.
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And again, just to clarify, not all people who are celibate
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believe this, but when there is rhetoric being spread on TikTok
20:21
that you have to save yourself and keep yourself clean for
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marriage. When we go back to a culture
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that normalizes the objectification of a person and
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historically the idea of pure and dirty have never let
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anywhere good let's. Say, when it comes to purity and
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how I view it, I, I think I don't view people as being dirty
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or clean or anything like that. I think when it comes to me and
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my problems and frustration with like hookup culture and just cat
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the casualness of I think it feels very bad and wrong to me
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that it it kind of lost that spirituality and reference that
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I think it should have. So I don't really consider it as
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like if someone chooses to sleep with how many partners they
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want, that's kind of their own business.
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I don't really care. As long as it's a consenting
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adult, I don't really care. I think where I kind of look at
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it sideways is when you kind of lose the reference and respect
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and the spirituality that I think comes with that people
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just kind of kind of wave away nowadays.
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I think that's where I like have problems with it kind of per SE.
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So I don't think it has anything to do with how I view people
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purity. I think it, I think I view it in
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a more deeper lens with how people treat it and how deeply
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people feel connected to something.
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I think it's so transcendental and it's such a big part of the
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human experience and just kind of wave it off or treat it like
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as a chore to check off a box or anything like that.
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Like all this purity stuff gets dangerously close to language of
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like high value women or high value man, which in case you
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didn't know are just dog whistles for red pill behavior,
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which is already an extreme Christian behavior.
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And again, I have to make a disclaimer, this isn't an attack
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on religion but more so the extremist version of it.
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Like if you ever find yourself using fresh and fit vocabulary,
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even ironically, just know you're starting to lose the
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plot. Now we've been talking a lot
22:15
about straight relationship or at least heterosexual
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relationships. What about the gays?
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Because I feel like we get bad PR when it comes.
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I thought there's always this stigma, especially in the gay
22:24
community that everyone is just going to bring each other Willy
22:27
nilly. I'm so sorry all, I had to paint
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the picture. But that may not actually be
22:34
true now. There's not many actual stats or
22:37
studies on the difference between St. and queer people and
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their differences in sexual activity right now for many
22:42
different reasons. But there is some speculation
22:44
that the celibacy or at least abstinence movement has gained
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traction in the queer community as well.
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This article from the Gay Times from 2024 talks about that
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moment online where gays were going boy sober or girl sober,
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essentially abstaining from engaging in sex activity.
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And the article actually interviews many different people
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and most of them, if not all of them site wanting to reflect on
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their relationship with sex and and boundaries and wanted to
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take that moment for personal growth.
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And at least anecdotally from people in my life, the whole
23:05
concept of abstinence seems to be a growing lifestyle choice.
23:08
Now let's take a beat and talk about something very similar but
23:10
different. This little side section that
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I'd like to call the fall of RL and the rise of online set.
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I feel like I've been wanting to talk about this for a while and
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it might need to be its own video, but I just wanted to have
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a little quick side note on how we might not be having as much
23:21
intercourse in real life. We are somehow also at the same
23:25
time seemingly more freaked out than ever online.
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And I think unfortunately, the main factor for this is going to
23:30
make me seem like a Mormon mother on a Sunday.
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But in a very real way, porn has routed our brains.
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Like, there are many studies to this.
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And now more than ever, we've been seeing sexual content, or
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at least sexual adjacent content become commonplace online, but
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even more so in places that it hasn't traditionally been.
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Like there has been a significant rise in gooner
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content or just sanitized content and pretty much all
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aspects of social media, whether you're looking for it or not.
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So apparently the Instagram reels.
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Algorithm is constantly pushing gooner content onto young men.
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On Instagram. According to a very popular
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video on here. And if you were ever.
24:04
Wondering why a platform might do this?
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The answer is pretty simple. Gooning turns you into a good
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capitalist. Like, you can lie and clutch
24:12
your pearls and say you haven't seen it, but it's so pervasive
24:15
everywhere online, whether that's on like random Instagram
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Reels, Tik Toks, Twitter, just in regular ads, YouTube Shorts,
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like YouTube thumbnails. It is everywhere and for
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everybody. And it's become so normalized on
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our screens, in our society and in our media.
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Like literally just take a few swipes on any social media app
24:30
and you're bound to see something suggestive or
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suggestive adjacent. And the thing about this kind of
24:34
content is that it does well on all of these platforms.
24:37
Like I for when I've seen too many tips on TikTok before y'all
24:40
start coming for me saying they're like, oh, it's called
24:43
the for you page. I promise you it's not because
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I'm looking for them. Like relax.
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And again, this is getting a little bit off base and this
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isn't me being like, oh, purity. And this could be its own video
24:51
in its entirety. But I bring this up not to shame
24:54
sexuality, but to show that people seem to be more freaked
24:56
out when consuming and participating in discourse.
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But I have so much less interaction with it in real
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life, or at least tangibly. Like it begs the question, like
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if a freak is freaked out online, did it really make a
25:06
sound in the IRL forest? I'm sorry.
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That joke was one that my researcher wrote.
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I had to include it. I'm sorry.
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Now, finally, to wrap up this conversation around like
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celibacy, purity, and Gen. ZI wanted to touch on some of
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the external pressures coming from society and media around
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our site as Gen. Z.
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Many articles and stories have swirled around the zeitgeist
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claiming Gen. Z to be the selfless generation,
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citing things like the decline of the birth rate, the rates of
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socialization, and alcohol use being reasons behind why Gen.
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Z just can't fuck. And to that I say, why are we
25:36
framing this as a bad thing? Why do they care so much like?
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It's not, it's not like you. There's like, like fears.
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Of like population, like decreasing, you know, like the
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growth of population decreasing. And it's like, there's already 8
25:55
billion people on this earth. Why do we need more?
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Like, why are we all in our business like that?
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As Alexis said earlier, it's damned if we do, damned if we
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don't. There doesn't seem to be any
26:04
kind of middle ground here. Gen.
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Z is either a bunch of antisocial prudes who aren't
26:07
doing it, or just overly freaked out and immoral.
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We are erasing the nuance here in the very real reasonings
26:12
behind why people across the board are choosing to abstain
26:14
from having intercourse, as well as ignoring the fact that people
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are shockingly still also having intercourse and choosing to do
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that when and with whom they want to, especially when they
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feel respected and cared for. I'm not willing to, like,
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sacrifice my sanity and my secrecy because of what
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everybody said. They're also saying we're not
26:33
having kids like that. It's like who might be having
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kids now but like, wait till we get older and be ready for that,
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you know? Because.
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We're, you know, we have the baby boomer generation and then
26:43
it's it's like a lot of us are popping out kids and that's
26:46
fine. But it's just like I feel
26:48
pressured by the kids because I love babies, but not enough to
26:52
where I'm from. Like, OK, let me just open my
26:54
legs. Go pop up kids now.
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Like I don't think there should be a stigma either way, as long
26:57
as everyone involved is consenting and not harming
26:59
anybody. And to the older generations
27:01
that are deeply in our business, I would really, really hate to
27:05
wake up y'all's tea. No, I wouldn't about how the
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real reason behind why there's such a concern over Gen.
27:09
Z having sex is that it's just a giant cover for like the ultra
27:12
conservative white replacement theory.
27:14
And the fear is not exclusively that Gen.
27:16
Z as a whole is not having kids. It's that young white people are
27:18
not having enough sex, having enough kids to keep white people
27:21
in the majority. And we can see that that's very
27:22
clearly the case by looking at what policies are being enacted
27:25
right now and what specific rights people are fighting to
27:27
roll back. But yeah, let's just say that
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it's because y'all are afraid of potential declining birth rates,
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right? Regardless, as a young person
27:34
right now, you shouldn't feel pressured to do or not do
27:36
anything you don't personally feel comfortable with.
27:38
More ready for when it comes to set.
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I would say kind of a bit of advice that I wish someone told
27:44
me when I was younger is don't feel pressured to do something
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that you're not ready for when you're not ready for it.
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You should treat physical intimacy with a partner with
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respect and it is a chance for you to learn about yourself and
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your partner. So take that with the weight
28:04
that it deserves and I would say just be respectful all around
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and don't, you don't have to do anything that you're you don't
28:11
want to do. And to wrap up, there was a
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moment in time a couple years ago where people thought that
28:15
hookup culture was sex operation.
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And Fast forward to right now, more and more Gen.
28:19
Z ers are choosing celibacy or abstinence.
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Is this a bad thing or a full 180 turn?
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I think that's up to the beholder.
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But ultimately I think that choosing what feels right and is
28:27
best for you with no judgement from others is true sex
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operation. Like as long as you're minding
28:31
your business and not describing you some kind of purity standard
28:34
and implying it's everyone else, at the end of the day it's just
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about doing what you want and doing who you want safely and
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consensually.