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No, because women can get their sexual needs more or less without trouble. A male sex robot owned by a woman would make me feel the same way though, similar to the man's-arm-shaped pillows. It is sad, because they can't get a their emotional needs for intimacy fulfilled and are resorting to hollow physical proxies
No. But you are an extreme minority, and your existence won't change overall cultural views of sex robots.
Please tell me where this has been tried. I know of no major government entity which has enacted Georgist tax policy.
If you hate capitalism, you are missing the big picture - the enemy of the average person isn't the accumulation of money and respurces, but the accumulation of power - money and resources being but one aspect of this. Capitalism is good because it mostly occupies the psychopaths with becoming rich, rather than seeking seats of power in government. Capitalism is the best form of innovation and resource distribution we have yet devised, and works well for people with proper safeguards in place preventing accumulation of too much wealth and ensuring the welfare of the average citizen.
Then for people who are struggling & can’t afford to produce one “high value” child they make a logical choice to do it later when they have more resources. Since humans are complicated they can create other values they see are more valuable then children or decide to do something later until having children is no longer a possibility.
In your language, we would expect people in the first sentence to revert to K type parents. If they do not, they simply fall into the category described by your second sentence.
And in rich countries, who are the people still having many children? The poor, uneducated, rural, religious/conservative segments of the population, who believe in some way or another that raising a child struggling in poverty is preferable to not having children at all.
I honestly wouldn't peg you as conservative, even with your "conservative" views. You sound like a reasonable moderate.
Sounds like a pretty big cope. Sex isn't about cumming. It's about emotional connection with another human being. Being unable to get fulfillment of this basic human need is sad and lonely. This is why fleshlights have a stigma that beating your bishop the old fashioned way doesn't - every healthy teenaged boy spanks it on the reg. But actually purchasing a device speaks to a level of hopelessness at obtaining actual sex that is sad, which implies a failure to be attractive, which is itself unattractive.
If that were true, we would expect richer countries to have higher birth rates. Instead, we see roughly the opposite trend. The richer a country gets, typically, the lower the birth rate. You can't tell me that a teacher and a data entry clerk in Virginia are less economically capable of raising children than subsistence farmers in Malawi, no matter how high the rent in Virginia is.
If you want to see high income places with high birth rates, then you end up in very traditional/religious cultures, like Mormons and the Arab petro-states, where women face extremely high cultural pressure (if not force/violence) to be child-bearers.
Some books I enjoyed when I was a kid that didn't fit the trips above:
- The Contender
- The Tripod Series
- Call It Courage
Imma go out on a limb and say wanting someone to shove their cock up your ass is gay. Which is fine. You do you. But, like, it's gay.
I'd really like to see the evidence for this statement, since it really seems like this trend is just an extension of the phenomenon we see in poorer countries: when you give women education, opportunities, and birth control, fewer of them will have children. It stands to reason that the more education, the more opportunities available, and the more freely accessible birth control is, the fewer women will have children.
Me, but I have no dogs and don't play video games.
Tribalism. They'll find a way to think Trump is good, because that is a necessity for tribal membership for them.
Young people are struggling with mental health and relationships, but there are small shifts in beliefs and behaviors that could help.
Gotta disagree here. They always sell the "quick fix", but the reality is that changing your beliefs about the world is no small thing.
Their lack of representation in any zeitgeist I've encountered is kind of OP's point.
Sorry, I'm a kinky fuck, but I'm not that kinky
But muh violent revolution against the capitalists!!!
This is a great point, until you want to ask your hot date to come home with you.
Everything I've ever heard about femboys has (a) been exclusively online and (b) implied they take it up the ass. Not saying there is anything wrong with this, but effeminate gay men is the opposite of what OP is talking about.