{"id":641,"date":"2019-01-11T20:26:41","date_gmt":"2019-01-12T00:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/?p=641"},"modified":"2019-01-21T20:31:31","modified_gmt":"2019-01-22T00:31:31","slug":"loving-our-phones-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/?p=641","title":{"rendered":"Loving our phones more"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>The Atlantic <\/em>ran a long article in its December issue about &#8220;The Sex Recession&#8221; &#8212; asserting that sexual activity among younger people is either declining or less fulfilling or just less fun.  Some of the reasons she identifies, I understand, are not universally accepted.  Whether porn, with all its exaggerated practices and exaggerated body parts, has moved sex (which we used to call &#8220;making love&#8221;) into an un-fun, intimidating place probably is subject to challenge.  (I think my peers and I find some of dark practices a little scary; the mystery and adventure were plusses for us.)  But I really liked one point the writer, Kate Julian, made.  When she told interviewee women about how older people struck up conversations and met mates &#8220;in the elevator, in the break room, on the walk to the subway,&#8221; she found the following reaction:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p> I was fascinated by the extent to which this prompted other women to sigh and say that they&#8217;d just love to meet someone that way.  And yet quite a few of them suggested that if a random guy started talking to them in an elevator, they would be weirded out. <em>&#8220;Creeper!  Get away from me,&#8221;<\/em> one woman imagined thinking.  &#8220;Anytime we&#8217;re in silence, we look at our phones.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p> <em>Who&#8217;s shutting down whom?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Atlantic ran a long article in its December issue about &#8220;The Sex Recession&#8221; &#8212; asserting that sexual activity among younger people is either declining or less fulfilling or just less fun. Some of the reasons she identifies, I understand, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/?p=641\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":642,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641\/revisions\/642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}