2022 Sex Report

GM 🦁 This is Andrew's Apples, the 2-min health email for the avid reader who has no time to read. But probably, somehow, has tons of time to read the news until blue in the face. Imagine reading the news bahahhahah. Aight, let's go.

🍆 2022 Sex Report. So this just dropped. It is long so I summarized the parts I selfishly found the most interesting in this 7,000-person study. Here goes... Everyone thinks everyone else is having more sex (average is 5x/month). Voyeurism/polyamory/etc is getting more popular. Men prefer fantasies while women prefer realities (and sleep lol). Men get more romantic and women get more tired with age. Everyone is horny, regardless of age or gender. Gen Z is gay (lol jk, but about half of Gen Z women do not identify as hetero). Porn numbers are going up. 🍎 Andrew's Take. First things first, all reports are flawed. Fun to look at and directionally informative but ultimately useless. People lie when they report and blah blah blah. My intuition is that things are way worse. Porn is out of hand and distorting our sexual reality; young guys' penises don't work (this was not a thing when I was a junior punk); the lack of clarity in gender roles is straight up confusing (applicable to both men and women); and the predominance of empty hookup culture is poisoning us in ways we cannot yet grasp. Last note: sex is not political. Set abortion aside. When two people choose to walk into a bedroom and close the door, they have entered a strange and unusual place where, barring a couple serious ground rules, the rules are made up as they go. Nanosecond negotiations are settled, messiness guaranteed, and things happen that neither party tells anyone about. I am not talking about the r-word. I am talking about nearly everything else. This country needs to grow up and release their pearls on trying to politicize sex. Politics and sex are not bedfellows. When has legislation or Marx ever got you going?

😎 The coolest thing ever. I remember rushing a fraternity my freshman year. In preparation my older brother's friend told me: just be yourself. Of course at the time that just meant act in a way so that 'they' will like you. Which is what I did. That is what every eighteen year old does. Shit, that is what a lot of people in their 30s and 40s still do. Still a slave. The coolest thing one can ever do is to be up front about he who is. If you catch fish for a living, you do not say you are a banker. If you are a funny person who busts balls, then bust balls even if you have a soft audience. Maybe it will even break them in. And so on. Said another way, you possess a code of ethics or a way of being that is fairly consistent across your private and public personas. Let's be real: being yourself really just means saying what you think and thinking what you say. 🍎 Andrew's Take. I will admit, living in New York City, this is getting increasingly difficult to do. I have many friends who tell me things. Private things. These are typically my more truth-seeking friends. Unable to talk freely about anything with the people near them, they resort to the internet to explore ideas. Nothing wrong with that... but IRL is almost always better if you have the right crowd. But lots of crowds have misinterpreted what a "safe space" is. A safe space should be a space to safely discuss fucking anything, not an unrealistic unworldly padded room with a strict rulebook nailed to the wall. I try every day to tell people who are being real that they are being real. It is so rare. Ideas do not have a curfew nor a speed limit (actions do). If you think they should, maybe time to get off the road.

🕊️ Tweet of the Day. Lock yourself inside the apartment, pacing back and forth all afternoon. Use a Shake Weight. Chew gum with your mouth open. Click your tongue repeatedly. Anything!! Just move.

How about them Apples? Hit me with any comments or questions.

Your friend,

Andrew🍎

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