It could be changing perceptions of masculine sexuality. Like if you were a man 25 years ago, you've never admit to virginity. It was a social death sentence, even if you were a kid. You'd be 15 years old and claim you've slept with Heather Locklear.
Now maybe younger people care less about exaggerated claims of sexual conquest. Maybe it's easier to check if someone's lying too, because of how much of people's lives are on social media.
It used to be easier to just lie about anything. Now if you claim to have slept with someone as a boast, maybe your peers will ask for pictures or video evidence. Or maybe the perception has changed so having a bunch of partners now seems predatory or sad rather than impressive.
I understand there's more alienation and loneliness too, but the masculine expectation to lie about sexual partners can't be understated.
Kind of ironic though, as 25 years ago was the height of the evangelical, abstinence only, promise ring virginity fetishization and demonization of sexual content in the media. Now, the abstinence movement is largely dead, the evangelicals are a shadow of their former self, and sex is everywhere. Yet we got what the evangelicals were looking for, just not in the way they wanted it. Sort of a monkey’s paw curls situation for them.
It could be changing perceptions of masculine sexuality. Like if you were a man 25 years ago, you've never admit to virginity. It was a social death sentence, even if you were a kid. You'd be 15 years old and claim you've slept with Heather Locklear.
Now maybe younger people care less about exaggerated claims of sexual conquest. Maybe it's easier to check if someone's lying too, because of how much of people's lives are on social media.
It used to be easier to just lie about anything. Now if you claim to have slept with someone as a boast, maybe your peers will ask for pictures or video evidence. Or maybe the perception has changed so having a bunch of partners now seems predatory or sad rather than impressive.
I understand there's more alienation and loneliness too, but the masculine expectation to lie about sexual partners can't be understated.
Kind of ironic though, as 25 years ago was the height of the evangelical, abstinence only, promise ring virginity fetishization and demonization of sexual content in the media. Now, the abstinence movement is largely dead, the evangelicals are a shadow of their former self, and sex is everywhere. Yet we got what the evangelicals were looking for, just not in the way they wanted it. Sort of a monkey’s paw curls situation for them.
which is just so creepy
i'm just speculating because I don't actually know. I don't know how young men these days would react to an exaggerated sexual boast.