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Gen Z is turned off by onscreen sex, wants no-mance over romance, a new study finds (www.latimes.com)
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[–] 213 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Who wants to watch softcore nonsense involving people doing things that are not how sex actually works? Gen Z is first gen to come of age when porn is prolific. Mainstream film can't compete with step siblings getting stuck on the interwebs.

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  • [–] 61 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Porn is really not how sex actually works

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  • [–] 45 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I think porn gets it more right than Hollywood does. People in porn at least successfully take their pants off.

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  • [–] 48 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    As an elder millennial, porn has been prolific longer than you think. Late 90s and early 2000s LAN parties were half playing video games and half copying vast amounts of porn from each other.

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  • [+] -12 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    And how many people went to LAN parties?

    Those were the Nerds, the weirdos that spent halft their free time on a computer and talking about how to get faster internet. For the "cool kids" i think a lot were the magazines or someone stealing a VCR from their dads private collection.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    Every town and city I ever went in the early 2000s to had multiple crowded LAN centers. It was definitely mainstream, and definitely wasn’t just geeks. Pretending file sharing was not mainstream by 2000 is like pretending Star Wars is only for nerds.

    Way out of touch.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    Eeh, swede here but a majority of men in my generation (90s) were probably at dreamhack at one point or another during their teens. Not to mention homeparties. Girls is less obviously but many of those went too

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago

    I've also found that gen z aren't as sex crazed as we were, I felt like I had a monkey on my back and had to screw everything. Gen z is more aware of the consequences, and they have other shit to keep them occupied, we were bored a lot.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Lolol millennials had online porn from before early puberty for all but the most seniors of them.

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  • [+] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)
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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Most of us had it, but most were on things like family computers trying to be covert about it. Capacitive touch screen phones changed everything for access. No one was getting imaginative with the snake game on a Nokia 3310 back in the day.

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