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[–] endless_nameless@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I don't think people caring about body count has anything to do with physical things other than drastically increased odds of STIs and certain cancers.

I think mature adults realize that sex is never just sex, it forms attachments whether you want it or not. Screwing around forming and cutting off attachments constantly kind of fucks with your capacity to emotionally invest in an actual relationship.

[–] AceOnTrack@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

If your brain one days goes like 'I should fuck a thousand guys' and you don't immediately shut it down, there's something terribly wrong with you, and that's before accounting for the STI you are absolutely carrying.

Now. Clearly some incels have an irrational low idea of what a 'normal' bodycount should be, but 1000 in one day ain't it either.

[–] poke@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Not everyone does form those attatchemnts. There are plenty of poeole out there who can just have sex and have a good time and move on.

[–] FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world -4 points 1 day ago

Which is equally as worrying, to people who disapprove of high "body count" on assumption that emotional attachments were made

[–] fracture@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

i think the way you're describing the process as "screwing around, forming and cutting off attachments" really shows that you think of it in a very black and white sort of way. one can have casual / fwb sex with their friends, and still have a friend relationship with that person. one can even have one-off sex with an acquaintance or stranger, and even if you never meet again, it doesn't really make it a "cut off" relationship; if you met again, it would be pleasant, circumstances just may not arrange it

just because it's a more emotionally involved process for you or some people you've encountered, doesn't make it a universal truth

[–] endless_nameless@lemmy.world -2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Sure, you CAN do these things. That doesn't mean it's not diminishing your capacity to be emotionally invested in your relationships.

We can spend all day blowharding and traversing all the layers of subconscious processes abstracted into social constructs, how we are able to rationalize anything if we want to, and so on. But I think you can only get so far with that, when all I'm trying to describe is something pretty much everyone already understands intuitively.

"You can't turn a hoe into a housewife"

Works with gender/role flipped too, obviously.

[–] fracture@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 10 hours ago

i genuinely do not "intuitively understand" this idea. there's nothing contradictory about being a hoe and a housewife

can you like, explain this? i really don't understand how having multiple sexual relationships, specifically, diminishes one's ability to have emotionally fulfilling relationships. if anything, i might be inclined to think they would have more emotionally fulfilling relationships 💀