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A Crisis of Incentives, Trust, and Intimacy.
How modern culture, technology, and shifting gender dynamics are driving men out of the dating arena.
The fact that many young men have never approached a woman in person is not random. It reflects deep fractures in the modern dating landscape. These fractures are not just cultural but structural, moral, and technological. At the core is a growing belief among men that approaching women simply isn’t worth it anymore.
I would invite young men and women to rediscover faith. It puts the boundaries on dating and relationships that young people probably realize are necessary, but cannot really justify or articulate from a purely secular world view. Empirically, I observe that the dating relationships among young people in my church seem quite healthy and abundant.
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It's difficult, society has become empty, many young people live on appearances, hopefully within all this, the magic of meeting genuine people remains.
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2 sats \ 1 reply \ @OT 19 Jul
Most people meet online now right? That's probably why.
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Yes and no, it depends on how many environments you return to (Church, school, work, etc.) The more environments you meet, the more people you meet, unlike those who only socialize through networks, in my opinion.
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If it's true, I also agree that the dating scene has been lost in time...
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At the core is a growing belief among men that approaching women simply isn’t worth it anymore.
I'm not sure I buy that. Its surprising to me that no one seems to think that the "trans phenomena" couldn't be environmental poisoning.... its well known the numerous plasticizers wind up being estrogen simulators in the body.
It seems to me if we were observing a colony of rats and we saw that there was a big uptick in low sex drive + sexual disorders we would probably first think it was due to some physiological / environmental issues and not think that it was some cultural abnormality.
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Interesting perspective, you might be right
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That also has to be taken into account, nowadays many are heterosexual, others bisexual and so on, although do you think that affects the quality of people's interpersonal relationships?
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