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Nobody is Having Sex Because They’re a Bunch of Shut-In Nerds
It ain’t complicated, folks.
There’s another wave of Internet and University types talking about how nobody in the USA is having sex anymore. It’s poignant, really, to hear all these poindexters on Twitter and five million podcasts featuring those exact same people; just bewildered about this and applying the full power of their wildly-overpriced education to figuring it out. Guess what? The reason so many people aren’t having sex is because they’re a bunch of shut-in nerds. All those Twitter celebrities are nerds. Have you seen the Chapo Trap House guys? I like listening to them, and consider myself a bit of a Dirtbag Leftist, but I wouldn’t take dating advice from them.
I mean, I’m having sex, just as much as ever. So are most of my friends — fucking like there’s no tomorrow. Why wouldn’t we? Sex is quite literally the core pleasure around which our entire personalities revolve. That desire you feel to play the guitar, write a novel, build a house, get in a fistfight, and yes even getting that university degree — this is, at its root, a desire to fuck. Seriously. Your personality and your endeavors are a sort of hyper-elaborate mating dance. If you think you don’t want to fuck, you’re likely mistaken. I’m open to the idea that some rare specimens just ain’t made that way — people are…
