• Leviathan@fedinsfw.app
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    5 days ago

    You can have sex and be a totally toxic bastard that people don’t want to be around once they get to know you. You could have sex frequently but still be deeply lonely.

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      4 days ago

      Agreed. It’s dangerous to conflate emotional intimacy and sex - they aren’t the same thing and pretending they are is part of what got us into this mess imo.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      4 days ago

      The phasing is as a sudden historically unique crisis, not the generic sense of ennui common to adulthood throughout history.

      I can show you black and white French films from the 1960s complaining about the same Male Loneliness