Are millenials having less sex?

[hntnhole]

2 hours ago, tallslenderguy said:

Even in potentially social settings, we end up being isolated from each other by technology.

It's really sad that so many have become so attached to their devices.  Even worse when they're (apparently) talking to no one at a store, when in fact they're exchanging "nothings" with someone on their telephone.  

The other day I was waiting in line at the deli counter, along with a number of others.  One guy was sort of smiling at me while his partner was being served, and actually stepped over for an exchange of pleasantries.  He was flagging 'Top', so he was just acknowledging a "brother" - not cruising or anything like that.  A few words/phrases exchanged, and it was cool to be recognized, and interacted with.  Even just that small exchange was enough to make me remember when everything was like that. 

Such a sorrow that so many folks don't experience small events like that these days.  

[NWUSHorny]

I wonder how much work from anywhere has impacted our sex lives. I know it has impacted the amount of sex I've had the last few days, I'm taking a working vacation in an area that sex is readily available, and the damn phone keeps notifying me a various crisis, and even outside working hours I feel an obligation to jump on it as soon as I can. I'm Gen X, but most of the people I'm working with that are jumping in at all hours are millennials and Gen Z. I did get laid a few times this weekend, but could have had even more if I could have been really been not working over the weekend. Even 10 years ago it was easier to disconnect from work.

[reliableslut]

I’m 33 and have been keeping a phone sex log.  So far, I’ve had about 125 penetrative encounters so far this year.  This includes top & btm.  
 

XD

[hntnhole]

14 hours ago, NWUSHorny said:

and even outside working hours I feel an obligation to jump on it as soon as I can

I'm really sorry to know that ... but I can understand it too.  I used to get business-related calls at all hours, and it's a pain in the ass.  There were times I simply didn't answer though, depending on who it was calling.  Some employees can turn into babies that need their hand held all the time, and some have the good sense to wait until the office opens.  

Hope your fuck-cation is still on track !!!

[tallslenderguy]

On 1/28/2024 at 3:19 AM, Sharp-edge said:

as a millenial myself I recognise this. You can find porn everywhere and sometimes jerking can be way easier. Nobody seems to care meeting people. Some are what I call sex zombies. They want you to meet them right this instant. No matter if it's snowing, if it's 3am, if you tell them you're dying no they don't care. You have to meet them. And when you do they already search for the next one the moment you walk away. But many others are just unavailable. Instagram is full of half naked half-unclosetted gays who don't actually do something. Many of them also have Twitter where they just show their body and genitals and many also have onlyfans. Whoever has a dick sees it as a means of making money I'm afraid.

The only type of people that I think are relatively easy to meet are those who like to bate with someone else.

i tried accessing the article you linked, it does not exist anymore?

i think technology has helped create and sustain immediate gratification.  Many of the guys online are not there for relationship, they are there to scratch and itch.  There used to be a commercial in the US for a fast food hamburger store (Burger King). The whole premise of the commercial was "have it your way... special orders don't upset us, all we ask is that you let us serve it your way...."  

The commercial was telling people all they had to do was drive through they didn't have to dress or 'prep', even  take off their sweats or slippers, just get in the car and whatever they wanted would be magically handed to them as they drove past.

my point is, apps and technology cater to and nurture instant gratification. Push a button, get an instant response. When computers first became more common, things like internet porn were in their infancy. Modems were very slow and the porn would buffer every few seconds, "streaming" was not a thing, 'cotius interuptus" was the norm online and cruising locals were still commonly employed in their useful purpose. 

And really, cruising prior to technological  hook-up, also catered to instant gratification. i think it just more often resulted in sex  because you had to be there. i used to have a lot of 'cottage' (restroom) sex. There was sometimes a GH, sometimes not. i cannot count the number of cocks that fucked me under a stall wall or through a GH. But i also encountered plenty of guys who were there just to masturbate, some would touch you, others not. I.e, there were all the varities, closeted, uncloseted, and everywhere in between.  

The difference? Proximity. The people were the same: desires, needs, variety. But we didn't have the ether dividing us, or the ether to overcome?

We had to physically occupy the same space, and technology has removed that factor. i don't know that it has to do so much with the age of the person, but rather the age in which we exist?

[hntnhole]

1 hour ago, tallslenderguy said:

i don't know that it has to do so much with the age of the person, but rather the age in which we exist?

Thanks for pointing that out clearly.  For some of us, the advent of the "impersonal, online" existence just doesn't cut it.  Yet, here we are, using a website that exists in exactly that space, and we enjoy it for what it is. 

What I wonder is, when the current generation (whatever they name it) of young kids (read teenagers)  reaches middle age, I wonder how many iterations of communicating with one's peers will have already happened.  Will anything actually be *real* ?