Well, I won’t kink-shame. I would guess anybody who insists on a virgin is going to, though.

I guess you know your own desires better than me, if this is a genuine post, but it just doesn’t seem like it rationally should be any different than what you already do.

Doubtful. If this is a sex thing you need to solve it in a sex way. Cannibals have compared humans to any number of things, and pork is just kind of another kind of meat.

The best communicators are ones that stick to their own field. Neil Degrasse Tyson is kind of a bad one for that, as well.

There’s a lot of fields and subfields, so that means not any one particular person, unfortunately.

Yeah, avocation and vocation can both fill that hole. It is a hole that most people need filled, though.

When people do retire, something like this usually happens. Either they solve it by joining into so many activities and hobbies they’re actually busier than before, they end up finding another job for the hell of it, or they decline into misery.

Doing nothing is like a covid lockdown that never ends, basically.

Yeah, YMMV, I guess. When I was in school I took it deadly serious. It definitely took energy, and it definitely was 5 days a week.

I mean, isn’t school a bit like that?

Or sad, unemployed people.

Sure. We’re talking about kids playing here, though. Looking at that and saying it’s basically wife beating would sound hysterical.

Oh okay. But the point that it sure has grown stands.

Really young kids don’t care and mingle freely. It’s a learned thing; the latter. Although “oppressive” might be a bit on the strong side.

Sure, they’re okay. Honestly we might be a bit too strict about avoiding them, at this point.

Where it becomes a problem is if you’d like to join whatever group, but the only one available is not open to you. Which happened a lot historically, but is rarer now.

I think their claim is nonsense, grossly exaggerated at best.

Can confirm, in my experience the problem with mancaves is that you pretty quickly want to let women in. There’s no tradeoff, we can not talk about our feelings and make a mess in a mixed gender crowd, too.

Sure?

That’s good of you. I can’t imagine every accountant is so flexible. Lawyers straight up have to charge most of the time, I think.

It could also be a technical expert, or the government (in which case, refer to the lawyer).

I haven’t seen gourmet yet.

TBH if that was the tagline I’d be impressed.

Anybody could be a bastard, but that takes a very rich bastard.

The irony is that there’s two kinds of consumers here. Either it’s a rich yoga lady buying from an influencer, or it’s, like, an African person buying from another African person. Anyone in the middle just enjoys the wonders of industry.

Yeah, the euphemism treadmill has gotten that one. Now you want select, legacy, platinum or some jumble of similar words.

Yeah, when I’ve heard that my immediate thought is “welp, guess I’m on my own”.

But it’s actually grown. It fully didn’t exist 70 years ago.