{"id":75749,"date":"2022-11-29T01:00:32","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T06:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=75749"},"modified":"2022-11-28T10:48:29","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T15:48:29","slug":"qotd-people-have-always-lied-about-sex-but-genzers-lie-even-more-than-youd-expect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2022\/11\/29\/qotd-people-have-always-lied-about-sex-but-genzers-lie-even-more-than-youd-expect\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: People have always<\/em> lied about sex, but GenZ’ers lie even more than you’d expect"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I’ve been out of academia for a few years, but this bespoke sexuality nonsense was already exploding by the time I got out. I saw two big shifts in the studentry during my academic career. The first was the catastrophic drop in academic readiness, thanks mostly to No Child Left Behind (et al<\/em>. Lots of trends contributed, especially Participation Trophy culture, but NCLB is a good synecdoche<\/a>). The second was the end of all-out college kid hedonism.<\/p>\n

By the end of my last tour of duty, most college kids were dour puritans. I know, I know, but hear me out. This is the thing people keep forgetting about the Internet: People lie. I know we all know that consciously<\/em>, but we seem hardwired to believe confessions. In the same way that we might not consciously<\/em> watch TV \u2014 might go some distance out of our way to avoid it \u2014 but find ourselves staring mindlessly at the blinking screen when we’re in a bar or a waiting room or something. It seems to be hardwired. So when these folks start writing about all the bizarre sexual shit they’re into, we just … believe them. Sight unseen.<\/p>\n

But y’all, in the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. I want to state, unequivocally and for the record, that my entire knowledge of undergrads’ sex lives is secondhand. I have zero personal experience in this area. But it’s a close<\/em> secondhand. For one thing, there’s not much to do in College Town that doesn’t involve undergrads, so I ended up drinking at a lot of the same bars, and in vino veritas<\/em>. Second, kids these days have no filter. None whatsoever. Finally, social media \u2014 my last tour was at a SPLAC<\/acronym>, where they strongly encouraged the faculty to be “friends” with the student body on their campus social media apps.<\/p>\n

And yeah, they SAY a lot of things … but I highly, highly doubt they actually DO much of anything at all.<\/p>\n

For one thing, those “student” bars were lucky I and a few other semi-normal profs were still in our “drink away the pain” phase, because otherwise they would’ve gone out of business. Friday and Saturday nights during football season were still pretty lively, but the rest of the week the “downtown” bars had all the crackling energy of singles’ night down at the mortuary.<\/p>\n

Kids just don’t socialize much IRL, and when they do, they don’t hook up. In my not-inconsiderable experience, college drinking these days is like college anything \u2014 a grim, pinch-faced, assembly-line business. They intend to get blackout hammered, and they get after it like Heroes of Socialist Labor. Pausing for a quickie in the bathroom would mean skipping a turn in the drinking game \u2014 and they all play drinking games; it’s bizarre \u2014 so no thanks.<\/p>\n

And y’all, those are the outgoing<\/em> ones. The ones who still have some slight urge to see and be seen out in physical space. The rest of ’em never leave their rooms except at gunpoint, and when you force them to, their eyes never leave their phones.<\/p>\n

That’s why I’d bet many crisp stacks of Crispus Attucks that all the “kink” in their social media profiles \u2014 even their personal ads \u2014 are just for show. They’re not listing all that stuff in order to find someone to have sex with. They’re using it as an excuse not to have sex with anybody, because “having sex with” entails personal interaction and they’re terrified of that. If they ever perfect those VR sex helmets like they had in Demolition Man<\/em>, watch out, but as of now the whole idea is to seem weird and daring and liberated and kinky, but with no possibility of a follow-up. Oh, you’re into aardvarks and dental tools too? Um … yay? Oh, wait, you dress up as O. a. erikssoni<\/em>, and I’m only into O. a. leptodon<\/em>. Sorry!<\/p>\n

Severian, “Saturday Miscellania”, Founding Questions<\/em><\/a>, 2022-08-13.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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