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It would have been perfectly normal
The Rise of Lonely Single Straight Men
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She was just 15 and I was just an innocent lad. However mature enough to know right from wrong. I wasn’t the sort of kid who thought being a virgin was uncool and therefore desperate to lose my virginity. I couldn’t care less, I never succumbed to peer pressure that’s why I don’t smoke or touch drugs.It would have been perfectly normal
Experimented with alcohol in my late teens to late twenties but only because it was legal.
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Growing up in the nineties a lot of the girls in my year at age 15 were hooking up with the lads a couple of years older...as they had cars and were 'cool' it was just normal. It was the same when I was 17-20, its life.
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I remember a year 11 (15-16 year old) in our school going out with a year 8 (12 years old), and that was ******* weird.
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Nobody is boasting, its just how things were. Maybe still are.
You must have lead a very sheltered life
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Hah, not at all. I’m fully aware of what kids get up to and what I did When I was younger.
I just think it’s weird gloating about having sex with children as an adult. Like why mention it?
We’re not gloating and I didn’t have sex with a child, that’s my point.
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I was replying to nlel1975 and his fretting about making the right choice when in reality its very common for these things to happen. Its weird that you are making such a thing about it.
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I wonder if that reflection goes across all ages too. We are making less babies every year too.Looks like that “graphic sex education” is working though…
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Looks like that “graphic sex education” is working though…
Wow that is really great to see. Teenage parenting really isn't a good thing. Hardly started out in life, experienced nothing that it has to offer and already tied down by a child. Hopefully that will continue to fall.
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I hope so, but my worry is that, at the same time, people are putting off having children too long at the other end of the fertility spectrum and are "suddenly" realising they're childless their 30's or even 40's and then struggle to conceive. For example the average age of 1st time mothers in the UK has risen from 26 in 1974 to almost 31 in 2022 and that average age is still trending upwards every year which, alongside a plummeting birthrate (down 20% since 1974), doesn't bode well for the UK, unless depopulation is your thing
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Its a combination of multiple factors, from increased female education/career opportunities, the change in social attitudes and CoL where both people want/need to go out to work and the high costs involved, especially child care.
Oh and the catastrophic collapse in male fertility won't be helping either!
doesn't bode well for the UK, unless depopulation is your thing
There's a few of those happy about it around here
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….which means only one thing…..and they won’t be happy about that.
Life is a rollercoaster isn’t it!
Life is a rollercoaster isn’t it!
Japan, UK, USA, China, many countries in Europe are all having the same problem with dropping birthrates.
Good for the those big corporations offering egg freezing to women, keeping them in the work force longer, turning a profit. Which only benefits the big corporations, never the women.
As for the male fertility dropping, well bad diet, bad environment, stress, long working hours, lack of exercise, doesn't help a males sperm count.
Good for the those big corporations offering egg freezing to women, keeping them in the work force longer, turning a profit. Which only benefits the big corporations, never the women.
As for the male fertility dropping, well bad diet, bad environment, stress, long working hours, lack of exercise, doesn't help a males sperm count.
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There are increasingly more people who are having less children or no children at all for environmental reasons as well. I do worry what sort of world my children will live in by the time they are in their 30s. Could be a complete mess and once resources become scare the world will go to war.
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Most western countries are not sustaining the birth replacement rate, more people die than are born, Japan crossed that line some time ago and are now in a position where there are more over 65s than young people, and young people aren't having children so once they age that's it. Even China has issues which is why they now allow 3 children but even that may not be enough long term.
Mistakes made today may not manifest for several generations but I certaiy think when I am near retirement age in 3-4 decades birth rates to young parents will be a thing of the past. Specially as the focus is to encourage girls to work and have careers rather than have children. When in reality leaving children to later on is not only dangerous for their health but also likely to end in failure past a certain age so they may only have 1 child if their lucky. Not enough to sustain the population.
Some may think there's too many people anyway, well if that's how you feel there is an easy solution or would you rather half the world just die.
Mistakes made today may not manifest for several generations but I certaiy think when I am near retirement age in 3-4 decades birth rates to young parents will be a thing of the past. Specially as the focus is to encourage girls to work and have careers rather than have children. When in reality leaving children to later on is not only dangerous for their health but also likely to end in failure past a certain age so they may only have 1 child if their lucky. Not enough to sustain the population.
Some may think there's too many people anyway, well if that's how you feel there is an easy solution or would you rather half the world just die.
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No need for half the world to just die, as you have just pointed out birth rates are dropping below replacement levels so the population will naturally reduce over time. No need to accelerate that. But we do need to plan for that because it is a significant change and breaks capatalism without infinite growth
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The climate change zealots wouldn't agree with that, they want everyone to die to protect "zie environment".
Infinite growth was never a good idea, but I think the only way we proceed as a civilisation is to build, engineer and science the crap outta stuff.
I think the biggest problem though lies with government, they are always thinking short term and never about the long game, or so we are lead to believe.
Infinite growth was never a good idea, but I think the only way we proceed as a civilisation is to build, engineer and science the crap outta stuff.
I think the biggest problem though lies with government, they are always thinking short term and never about the long game, or so we are lead to believe.
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It does not break capitalism, infact its better for capitalism, what it breaks is socialist systems.