Back to episode — Episode 697 Scott Adams The Hypnosis Coup Gains an Admiral, Kurds in the Way, Doral G 7 Summit
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← Previous segment →So I just saw a survey online that said that the percentage of men and women who were not having any kind of sex in the past year has doubled in the past 10 years. So it used to be somewhere in the 10% range of people who were not having any sex in the past year, and now for men it's 28%. 28% of men haven't had sex in the past year, and 18% of women. How do you explain that? Don't we have a more promiscuous society than ever? We do, right? Seems like we have a more promiscuous society than we've ever had, and yet the number of men and women having sex has plunged. 28% of men did not have sex in the past year. How do you explain that? Easy. I predicted it many years ago. It's easy to predict. It goes like this.
The quality of pornography started with, well, I hope I could find a dirty magazine somewhere. And then it went to VHS tape, but still a little hard to get. And then it went to digital online, available in infinite quantities for free. And you can find exactly what you want. You don't have to find approximately what you want because you can find exactly what you want. So the quality of the alternative, which is looking at pictures online, has gone from, well this is pretty good as a change of pace, to I think this is better than people. Because think about it. The average person cannot attract a superstar model, male or female, partner. Most people can attract somebody who looks sort of like they look. And so you would expect that a large number of people would find that the quality of the alternative is just better.
And I think automation has largely replaced human beings for at least a quarter of the population. Literally. There's no hyperbole there at all. Automation in the form of online pornography has replaced human interaction for 28% of men. And I don't think part of the story is that they're less happy. That's the thing that the story doesn't include. Are they more happy? Are they less happy? I don't know. They don't say. I would think that because there's some amount of human contact that is necessary for mental health, that they're less happy. But maybe they don't know it.
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All right, let's talk about something else. Let's talk about that Turkey ceasefire that's not really a ceasefire. So according to the United States there's a ceasefire between Turkey and the Kurds. According to the Kurds there's no ceasefire. There's just a... what's the difference between pausing firing at people and ceasing firing at people? Well I guess the ceasing maybe seems like it's less te…
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