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Old farts of Hexbear, is there something about younger people that you don't get? [no punching down!]
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OK this is my list. But first, I need to say that this isn't a condemnation of those into such thing. They just don't vibe with me.
- Cannot get into ASMR. I've tried. Often its women 20 years younger than me, rubbing their fingernails on hairbrushes. The intentional sounds they make with their lips and fingers are things that would make me want to change seats on a bus.
- Instagram. I was maybe the last person to get a smart phone. It was probably 2016. I'm just fully lazy to take photos of stuff. This is a real issue when I'm single and I need to start putting photos on dating sites, as all pics of me in my phone are me squeezing carrots in my nostrils and similarly goofy things.
- My students' taste in anime. I try to be all cool and show off my cool taste in anime, maybe drop a Azumanga Daioh clip. It's all ancient history for 17 year olds.
- Photo and videos done in portrait mode. I guess I don't watch videos on the go. See #2
Things that the kids these days do better:
- Usually better opinions on current events than people my age
- I wish that cosplay existed when I was a teen. The default when I was younger was drugs.
If anyone insults the kids, I will visit you at your home and do an 
Not sure how widespread it is but I see a lot of younger women complain about this so I assume there’s a shift: young people being way more lackadaisical about using condoms these days, especially for casual hookups. Obviously HIV isn’t the death sentence it once was, but it’s still there and it’s not the only STD with long term consequences. Yet there seems like an attitude of “Well she is (or I am) on hormonal birth control so there’s no concern then.”
I've heard this too. But young men of my generation weren't perfect tho. I've definitely had friends in '99 complain about how shit the guys were. Also friends my age in 2024 are "fluid bonding" with people they meet for casual sex.
I'm kinda conservative with sex. I'm so glad that I don't have kids or STIs. Looking back, I definitely dogged a few bullets.
What is fluid bonding?
cw:sex
I new age way of saying "barebacking"same
What is barebacking?cw
unprotected sexNvm I looked it up. Shaking my head out of sexual health concerns.
according to the cdc the youngest demographic remains the best about that. and to whatever extent "Well she is (or I am) on hormonal birth control" exists, it's significantly different from how men used to make up lies to avoid using them
Good to see that usage is good, although I think we’d need to see some data of young people from 20-30 years ago to get a full comparison. Also, the older generations are most likely reporting lower condoms use because they’re more likely to be in long term, monogamous relationships than the younger ones, thus more concerned with the reproductive control aspect than the disease control aspect. So they’re more likely to be using hormonal or surgical birth control. If you look at the breakdown by relationship type, it show long term relationships have way, way lower condom usage rates than hookups or casual relationships.
the earliest data i can find is from the late 80s, with expectedly slightly lower 52%. then we're into the reeds. there's claims condom use was down from some high point before the pill was introduced but i cannot verify this. but idk there's just a very strong pattern with more recent generations tending to increase use, and a reverse of this trend has not yet borne out.
conservative politicians are always hard at work getting that number down though, i think 2020+ might present interesting data but i don't think anyone has that published yet