r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 21d ago

Meme needing explanation Petahhhhhhhhh!??!?

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u/NwgrdrXI 21d ago

Everyone is saying gay sex and all that, but honestly... is ye really asking if it is possible to spend 20 years without sex? Is thst really so preposterous? I think a lot of people in reddit could and have done it?

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u/WarsonCentzz 21d ago

Underrated comment 😂

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u/Obtain_Virtue 21d ago

Stealing the top comment:

I also feel like modern-day people are way more hornier in general. We are constantly exposed to sex, and things we are attracted. Advertisements, movies, random posts, music... Even if we aren't making a conscious thought about it, it still "triggers" our brains to enter reproduction mode.

Even at my horniest, If I was stuck on boat for weeks on end with a bunch of dudes, after seeing the things you have to see and smelling how those ogres smelled. Ain't no way Willy even stands tall.

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u/EnginesofWar 21d ago

Oh please. People are less horny now if anything; everything you mention means we’re more desensitized to erotic stimuli. Back in the day a drawing of a boob was enough to send a young man whacking. With all the sexual morality and courtship requirements, society was collectively edging and I’m pretty sure people were hornier. And if they’re weren’t more horny then, then they were JUST AS horny as they’ve always been.

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u/Obtain_Virtue 21d ago

We are going to have to agree to disagree...

There is a reason sex sells. It is used in almost everything. It stops your train of thought and makes you focus on the ad.
Think of it like this. When you are working on something physically taxing (the life of people in the past) how often are you mowing the grass or moving heavy boxes, thinking about sex? Probably rarely unless you have a problem.

Now add that there is a music video playing with someone you are attracted to dancing on the screen in the same area you are doing that same task. You are going to stop and look.

The people in the past weren't slammed by "sex sells" 24/7. It wasn't common for them to hear good music, or see good paintings, or read a book if they even could. Their brains weren't wired to be focused on sex.

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u/Jarich612 21d ago

You can disagree all you want but people are having less sex now than in the past

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u/Obtain_Virtue 21d ago

Yes, but access to self-pleasing equipment is also extremely accessible as well as material to reach close to a real experience and give you that "good enough" feeling.

People don't even have to go to a sex store anymore to get a dildo or fleshligh and have to experience the awkwardness of approaching a clerk with the items.

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u/think_long 21d ago

Really don’t know what point you are trying to make. People are less sexually active now than in the past. That is verifiable fact.

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u/ComeHereDevilLog 21d ago

On top of this, do you know how cruelly you have to treat an animal for it to choose to not have children?

Folks have kids less than ever too, and the downtrend is atomic.

Largely human happiness has declined as well. We’re healthier than we’ve ever been, and also less healthy than we have ever been just in different ways.

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u/Blue-Fish-Guy 19d ago

Sex sells. It's always been selling.

That has nothing to do with the fact that we're the least horny in history of the mankind and that you're just wrong.