#sex and the single twentian

[frances-kafka]

Part of the headspin brainfuck of today's current zeitgeist, for me, is how horny Christian culture seems now that we only have Puriteens, "Everyone Is Beautiful And Nobody Is Horny," and media products that are formulated to sell in markets with far more puritanical viewpoints. We have done a bizarre-ass pivot to where some Christians are now defending the (fertile) horniness of Christian life as a contrast to the (literal) sterility of secular life, not only is it fun to have kids, it's fun to MAKE kids! Fucking your spouse is how you get kids! Something must be wrong with you if you DON'T want to fuck! Hearing gay life described as sterile is a weird vibe shift from hearing it described as oversexed. And to be fair I definitely hear the latter more often but I hear the former enough and never used to hear that before. It's actually giving me a bit of insight into how horny Greatest and Silent Generation normies really were. And insight into the idea that Twentian romantic heteronormativity, wasn't at all at odds with the Sexual Revolution, not really. It actually sprang from the same culture, and was propped up by the same economic and infrastructural and social conditions. Flower children weren't angry at their parents for being prudes. They were angry at them for being hypocrites. But all the same, I still feel like there is vibe shift going on with what was formerly the less *comparatively* horny culture. To the point that I ALMOST can easily imagine the Fosterites from "Stranger in a Strange Land" happening at some point.

[frances-kafka]

Hot take: "Is this an Appropriate image of a relationship and/or sex" is huuuugely cared about by... lonely people.

And a lot of people are lonely.

I really have the suspicion that this is not something a reader who's in a fairly long term LTR is going to think a lot about, unless of course they're evaluating works *for their children.*

I think that married women may be who actually read the more escapist stuff and don't really evaluate the messages it sends.

[frances-kafka]

sex and the single Twentian

This crossed my feed on Twitter. (I did not read the guy and cannot vouch for how “problematic” he is or is not.)

I have lots of thoughts but in the short term I will say this:

Both of these are dead horse now because moderns don’t consider sex this significant a personal force whereas Twentians considered it DEEPLY significant.

Twentians may be the horniest broad cultural megacohort in history.

Giving this much significance to sex, to a native Twentyfirstian (to avoid confusion with “Millennial”), would be some kind of -istaphobe because Everyone Doesn’t Get To Have Sex so we must play its importance down as cope.

[frances-kafka]

I can actually make a case for Twentians being the single horniest cohort ever. Possibly on a historic scale People born between the 1920s and the 1980s were really bumping a lot of uglies, all the time, weren't they. The whole public commons is full of sexual imagery too, in the Late 20th You think your world is full of porn? You have NO IDEA. Your sex imagery is on digital platforms and increasingly siloed, but it is falling out of the public eye to some degree Twentian urbanites walked past adult theaters with "SHAVING RYAN'S PRIVATES" on the sign, and sex shops, and the magazine aisle of normal stores. There really is a good argument for (hetero!) sex being shoved in everyone's face to quite a high degree

Twentians also enshrined sexuality to a higher degree of importance in self-actualization than I think any group before or since has, or does