Technology is great. Never in history have humans been so effortlessly connected with each other as the time we live in now. And this has implications with how we create romantic relationships with others.
On the one hand, this means that we can move our thumbs to swipe right a few times, type in a few messages and find ourselves on a date with a completely new person. Our ability to have sex with strangers has never been greater. This means that technology could be creating a more and more extreme type of sexual behavior: it's creating the super slut variant.
On the other hand, we've never before been so under the microscope from our peers with regards to our self image. We can spend hours engineering the perfect photo to post to our friends: sculpting the narrative of our lives that we want to tell others. This technology can start to make people more and more aware of their image and more anxious to achieve perfection in it. Not a single strand of hair should be out of place. The thing is, though, that sex is a pretty messy activity. In this way - as well as many other ways - sex is quite a personal act: we need to let our guard down and let people past that perfectly manicured image that we've created, to the real life version of ourselves. But when technology is making us more and more anxious about our image, it might be making it harder and harder for people to let their guard down to facilitate sex. Technology could be creating another type of extreme sexual behavior: the perfectionist frigid variant.
So there's my hypothesis. Technology is pushing people towards to extremes of sexual behavior: the super slut type and the perfectionist frigid type. I might delve into some surveys of how many people the population have had sex with over the years. Although finding out a way to isolate how technology affects these numbers from other cultural reasons might be hard.
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