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Yes, but ours were usually much much more casual and in much smaller houses. TV makes everyone look rich. Broke people have parties too, but they're chips/dip and BYOB. Also, without the jocks vs. nerds.
My husband was just telling a story this weekend about when he was "ninth grade cool". Right before a party a cute girl asked if he had the new Prince album. He said yes and then begged his mom to take him to Sound Warehouse to buy it. Unwrapped it, shoved it in his pocket, and got dropped at the party. "Cool! What's your favorite song?" "Uhh, the first one."
Sad that kids now don't have that experience.
Do kids still go parking?
So many kids today don't want to drive or learn to drive ๐คทโโ๏ธ And based on my partners' kids, they're much less sexually driven than we were. We did a bunch of stupid shit if there was a hint of a chance of getting laid.
That's sad. The hours we spent talking, laughing, and making out in cars were the best part of high school. I wonder if some of the disinterest is from anti depressants.
It's probably from the world burning down around them. Hard to be horny when you're full of existential dread.
Yeah, absolutely no existential dread from the Cold War. And we all just instantly stopped believing that the world would end in a nuclear holocaust just because the Soviet Union collapsed. Then there was the Gulf war, then 9/11, then another Gulf war. And we've known about climate change and how capitalism is killing our planet for practically the entire time, that's not new. Oil crisis? That's been a slowly building crescendo of apocalypse since like the 70s.
I'll buy existential dread as an excuse for not wanting to breed, not as an explanation for teenagers being less horny.
Give us y2k and we'll party like it's 1999!
Should be the opposite. Stressful conditions make us want to fuck and make babies. Maybe I'm wrong, but in any case, sex is about the most effective stress relief I know of.
I don't think your experience in this case is universal. Birth rates have been steadily dropping as things have gotten worse.
I feel the same way as you, but my wife is the opposite of us.
Wasn't speaking from experience, or today's social norms. Meant to say that primates fuck and masturbate when stressed. We do as well.
Kids seems so socially anxious and isolated, making a doom loop against making friends and fucking.