The number of high-school-age teens who are having sex dropped markedly over a decade, a trend that includes substantial declines among younger students, African Americans and Hispanics, according to a new government report released Thursday.
The survey by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed especially steep declines in the past two years. It adds to evidence about ongoing progress in reducing risky behavior by teenagers, who are becoming pregnant, smoking cigarettes, drinking alcohol and using marijuana at rates lower than younger people before them, according to public health surveys.
There is a reason that the amusing meme of dropping commies out of helicopters is catching on among the youth.
We are the vanguard – the early adopters. We were the first few outliers in our generation that began the shift as that Economic Misery Curve rose and the Conservative Policy Mood followed behind. We were the ultra-sensitive amygdalae, predisposed to pick up on the faintest K-stimuli and begin adapting early. It was tough, because we had to endure this tail end of peak-r as K-strategists.
But now the K is really in the air, like the electricity and tension before a big storm. Things are going down, and more and more human machines are cueing in on the stimuli, and in response their brains are going K. Amygdalae are growing more and more, and it is showing in the statistics. This is a wave of right wing nationalist reinforcements on the way.
The funny thing is, they don’t even know why. Why is sex less of a priority? Why is getting high and being weak and out of control not desirable? Why is throwing commies out of helicopters so funny? Why does Pinochet look like such a great guy? Why are these kids different? They have no idea.
The machine just adapts, the behavior happens, and the next generation of Pepes emerges from the mist, armed with funny memes, sharp wits, and a deep hatred for leftism. We are multiplying.
This is our era, and reinforcements are on the way. Drink these heady days in, because this is a rare experience for K’s. THroughout history, not all of us have been this lucky.
Teens having less sex is a result of less teens. Their social enviorment is nothing like a community anymore but a bunch of alienated, atomized pseudo-individuals. There is just so few people there you could fuck with anyway. If they had the opportunity, they would just fuck as much as the damn boomers and gen-x did. Its not because of virtue that they have less sex.
I just hope that frustration makes a bunch more school shooters.
To be fair, AC, you did ask Andy to comment more….
I actually laugh at some of Andy’s trolling.
He is a one of a kind.
“It was tough, because we had to endure this tail end of peak-r as K-strategists.”
I must confess I never thought I’d see things turn around. I grew up seeing things always getting worse and I figured that it would continue as such until the Second Coming. To see the kids today embracing ideals that I’ve been mocked for holding all my life, and seeing them assert these views with youthful vigor and benign, almost altruistic intent…it’s such a beautiful thing.
Isn’t it?
And to picture the left standing around stunned. They thought it was all progress toward our eventual extinction, and they had already all but won.
And now out of the mist comes a gaggle of Pepes, who will hold them in utter contempt and destroy everything they tried to do…
So cool.
As per usual, rabbits in power have overplayed their hand. They always do, and then they push the pendulum.
AnonCon, isn’t the phenomenon of less teen sex as explainable by the ongoing chickification/betacization of successive generations?
It could be a lot of things, but decreased drug usage would point to some sort of decreased hedonism/pleasure seeking, especially with drugs everywhere. Porn has been around freely for a long time now, so I think it has controlled for itself since the mid nineties. Pickup is all over online, so I think if young guys wanted to get laid they have more tools at their disposal today. But what I take away is that kids see sex as less of a thrill, and are pursuing it less, just like drugs are less tempting too. There are even “hook-up” apps devoted just to sex, that you can load a profile and be going in minutes. There are even low SMVs on the apps, so I think everyone could have sex if they wanted to pretty easily. I think this is a measure of underlying sex drive.
These are not massive shifts. It isn’t that they have armed robbers in their house each day who they have to fight it out with, so sex isn’t possible. It is more like, “Honey, I’ve got so much going on at work I just don’t feel like it tonight,” just on a daily basis as part of their psychology. Just enough to produce a statistical change when you look at the whole population.
But being more interested in stress is amygdala being turned on, and that is amygdala growing and adapting to focus more on threat/stress, than to relax and look for in the moment hedonism.
And it won’t be everyone. There will be r’s who are going even more r in their pockets of affluent ease. But overall, it is still heading K.
These are trends you would expect if r/K is right, based off that Misery Curve, the Conservative Policy Mood, and the knowledge that the US economy now requires borrowing $1 Trillion per year (over 1/4 of our budget) and flooding it into the nation just to stay in place, that borrowed amount is growing exponentially, and that cannot go on forever.
We know an Apocalypse is coming, and we know if r/K is right, we will go K in response. So here I view this as documenting data points I see pass us by along the way, so that after the fact people can hopefully look back and see the process in action, and maybe see when each part of the process happened for us.
The only hiccup I see is Trump is genuinely producing an economic boom. He may create a brief respite from the K, and if he does, by the end of his eight years we will see the Misery Curve Drop, a year later we will see the Conservative Policy mood dip down, and these sex stats may pick up a few years after. Then again, he is a walking K-stimulus all by himself so that is in our favor.
But long term, bet on Apocalypse.
AC, at first I thought these “Gen Z” memes were overstated, but I’m seeing the signs everywhere.
E.g. Latin Mass popularity — rough proxy for K-ifying the Vatican II r-Church — is growing AND these services are disproportionately attended by young families. Roman Catholic or not, attending a Latin Mass and a Novus Ordo one would be an interesting field study, e.g., comparing demographics of attendees.
Personally I see this more as alienation between normal heterosexual boys and girls ,caused by feminist shitsacks . If they were gender fluid freaks they’d be getting all kinds of attention.
. There was a song that was popular a few years ago by a band called Chain-smokers that was named selfie. The girl in that song , while not representative of all under 35 women, is none the less accurate in the broad strokes.
Yeah, that song captured it.