• Afghaniscran@feddit.uk
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    7 months ago

    I’m a 30 year old man and I couldn’t imagine chasing 18 year olds. I teach college students, I speak to 18 year olds regularly. They’re not for me.

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      When I was a teen I wonder if I’m older if I would still be attracted to teens. I was training a coworker a few years ago, and she’s fresh out of highschool. As soon as we diviated from work conversations I can feel any miniscule amount of attraction I had drain out from my body.

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          For me it’s social media. I’m old enough that I don’t do social media. But 95% of teenagers’ lives revolve around it. I can’t relate and have no desire to.

          • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.org
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            7 months ago

            I’m old enough that I don’t do social media.

            -@Cryophilia@lemmy.world on social media Lemmy

            Edit: Or perhaps I am wrong

            Social media is defined as a website or application that enables us to create and share content. A social network is alternatively a website or application that enables us to communicate with one another by posting information, comments, and messages.

            Source

            So I guess Lemmy would be considered social network instead. I didn’t even know there was a difference.

            Edit 2: OK, it seems most people consider Reddit a social media, but others debate it. And Lemmy is fairly similar.
            I guess I made a comment only to bamboozle myself.

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              7 months ago

              Reddit is not social media because it’s not about social interaction, because it’s anonymous. It’s not social if it’s anonymous.

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      7 months ago

      Most of the males between 27-32yo I know would definetely do an 18yo girl given the chance, but none of them are actively looking for one because it is weird.

      I guess it is more like a fantasy kind of deal. If I had to guess the reason is that young women are more sexually active than 30yo women. Friends with gfs always complain that it’s pretty hard to get them in the mood, like they have to beg. Men are just more sexual than women in general.

      Just had a friend break up with his gf because she would use sex as a manipulation tool.

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        This is just false. Women, on average, are most sexually active in their 30s. We have known this for ever… And somehow this garbage thought that young women are more sexual keeps showing up in male focused narratives.