RickTheToad
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If this were true, then why are STDs at an all time high (aside form HIV/AIDS)?Yes, but the rate has increased and is increasing faster among men.
Three seconds. That's how long it took. Your shoes. Your posture. The way you held your drink. Whether you looked at the floor or looked at her.
She already filed you away. Interesting. Boring. Safe. Bold. Before you even opened your mouth.
Everything you say after that is just her confirming what she already decided.
So stop rehearsing lines. Fix the first three seconds. Stand tall. Look up. Smile like you mean it. Walk like you belong wherever you're standing.
The words come later. The impression comes first.
If this were true, then why are STDs at an all time high (aside form HIV/AIDS)?Yes, but the rate has increased and is increasing faster among men.
Forget the cash, the cars, and the chiseled jawlines. Female desire operates on a completely different frequency. Primal. Subconscious. Triggers that bypass her logic and hit her on a gut level. Most guys are totally blind to them.
I know because I was one of them. The overthinking. The paralysis. The silent drive home kicking yourself for freezing up. Watching average guys walk away with the girl while you stood there stuck in your own head.
Then I decoded the psychology behind what actually makes women tick. 22 hard rules. Subtle behavioral shifts that rewired my entire reality. The anxiety evaporated. Women started leaning in. Investing. Chasing.
I’ve heard this but I just don’t see it to be true. Like there are guys I know that are virgins but I’ve never seen a chick who is, unless she was extremely sheltered/religious growing up. And even then, only if they’re ugly. Every guy I know who’s aware of the game will say how there’s no chick who’s a virgin nowadays past high school, but yet the CDC says that 60% of high school kids are virgins. That yet doesn’t make sense. Unless it’s literally all the chicks going after the same few guys. But **** bro, this **** just doesn’t add up.Wrong. Men and women across the board are having less sex.
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Opinion: This is why millennials like me are having less sex
We are more attuned than ever as to what constitutes a good sexual encounter, and we won’t settle for less than total satisfactionwww.independent.co.uk
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Why Are Young People Having So Little Sex?
Despite the easing of taboos and the rise of hookup apps, Americans are in the midst of a sex recession.www.theatlantic.com
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7 Reasons Why Young People Are Having Less Sex
Young adults are having less sex than the generations before them, even though conditions should make it easier for them to have more.www.psychologytoday.com
Think about it: most women in the western world are both quite fat yet have sky high and skyrocketing expectations: it's impossible that that combination could lead to more sex.
Got any stats to this, as in - which socioeconomic groups, genders, and especially or at least in which regions? Any kind of article or study? Otherwise it's understandably very hard for me to discuss it.If this were true, then why are STDs at an all time high (aside form HIV/AIDS)?
Most of these causes are suggested by the articles themselves but I complemented with my own searching:Come on dude. You know how I do. Sources below. All this month too.
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CDC raises alarm about "growing STD epidemic" as cases hit record high
The new high threatens millions of Americans, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention sayswww.cbsnews.com
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3 major STDs reached ‘all-time high’ in infections in 2018, says new CDC report
Three major sexually-transmitted diseases reached a historic high in infection cases in 2018, according to a new report by the Centers for Disease Control and Preventionwww.christianpost.com
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3 Sexually Transmitted Diseases Surging In U.S., Reported Infections Reach All-Time High, CDC Says
For the fifth straight year, cases of gonorrhea, chlamydia, and syphilis have all risen in the United Statesnewyork.cbslocal.com
That sentence contains at least five follow-up questions she WANTS you to ask. Where in Florida? What brought you here? How long have you been in the area? What do you miss? How does it compare to here?
She handed them to you on a silver platter. And you said, "Oh cool. I come here every week. I love this band. Ummm... pretty crowded tonight."
She smiled politely. Nodded. And never texted you back.
I was that guy for years. Talking too much. Listening too little. Panicking about my next sentence while she was literally feeding me the answers.
Then I found 22 rules that fixed the whole thing. Rule number one: shut up and listen. She'll tell you exactly what to say.
Perhaps on some, but incurable STDs are on the rise. Is it really worth the game with such dangerous consequences right now?Most of these causes are suggested by the articles themselves but I complemented with my own searching:
1 - Tradcuck regions that shame sexuality and are hostile to factual sex education and harm reduction policies. Tradcuck policies increase negative sexual health outcomes, such as STDs and poor teen births, in the regions they are enacted.
2 - Cuts to STD detection and treatment programs. See "tradcuck policy", but could also be due to "generalized" austerity.
3 - Poverty. Poverty itself is effectively an inheritable disease, it changes your epigenome. It also might hinder access to said STD detection and treatment.
4 - Increased drug use. Drug users get more STDs on average, bringing the count up.
5 - Decreasing/decreased condom use, such as among gays.
6 - More STDs are getting reported and screened rather than remaining unknown of. This contradicts #2, you would assume they can't both be driving reported rates when they are opposites, fact checking would have to be done.
7 - Increasing antibiotic-resistant strains.
Men under 5/10 are having less sex than everThe reality is, most people are having less sex these days, not more.
80/20 ruleI’ve heard this but I just don’t see it to be true. Like there are guys I know that are virgins but I’ve never seen a chick who is, unless she was extremely sheltered/religious growing up. And even then, only if they’re ugly. Every guy I know who’s aware of the game will say how there’s no chick who’s a virgin nowadays past high school, but yet the CDC says that 60% of high school kids are virgins. That yet doesn’t make sense. Unless it’s literally all the chicks going after the same few guys. But **** bro, this **** just doesn’t add up.
You've said it a hundred times. Maybe a thousand. And every time you say it, you train your brain to freeze the next time she walks into the room.
Leagues are a myth invented by guys who are scared of women.
She's a person. She has bad breath in the morning. She picks songs she can't sing in the shower. She overthinks her own texts.
Walk over. Say something. The league dissolves the second you open your mouth.
Looks a lot like the thousand yard stare.I'm awaiting photo evidence of this purported phenomenon.
You paid for dinner. You drove. You said "whatever you want is fine" every single time. All the effort, no expectations.
And she left anyway — probably for a guy who makes her pick up the pizza.
Painful. Also predictable. Her mind quietly concludes that anything requiring zero effort from her is worth exactly zero. You became a free sample, and free samples get taken for granted.
The 22 Rules flip the dynamic. Small shifts that get her investing effort, money, and time in you — until SHE'S the one afraid of losing YOU.
I'm sorry, I can't resist calling BS.More examples
I'm calling bs on you not seeing it with your own two eyes in real life. How blind and ignorant are some of you guys?I'm sorry, I can't resist calling BS.
Let's play a game. Take a long-term celebrity who probably has over 100,000 paparazzi photos taken of her. We'll choose one from relatively early, then pick a somewhat recent one. I'm sure there's 0% chance you can cherry-pick to show a "before" photo that shows energy and vitality, and an "after" photo that demonstrates flatlined energy. Nah, never.
But hey, let's say you can demonstrate that all the 2007 photos are pure happy-happy and all the 2019 photos are the embodiment of a totally hollowed-out soul. I'm sure that the c*ck-carousel is entirely to blame, right? Couldn't possibly have anything to do with 12 relentless years of searing celebrity spotlight, surely not.
There's an old saying: "I'd rather be rich than famous". Never truer than today. I don't know how a modern top-tier celebrity keeps their sanity.
Your buddy Dave has been single for three years and thinks "hey u up" is a valid strategy. Your other buddy Mike just got dumped and told you to "just be yourself."
You showed them her text. You asked them to decode the emoji. You drafted four responses and sent the screenshot to the group chat for a vote.
She's been waiting forty minutes.
Put the phone down. Stop crowdsourcing your love life. Type something that sounds like you. Hit send. Then go do literally anything else with your evening.