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Thanks!

Hey, I'm sorry I didn't do this earlier. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1207/S15327957PSPR0503_5

I'm convinced. A quick google and a bit of a read and I feel I have a grounded take. Men desire sex more frequently and likely more intensely in western countries.

I thought this was going to be about "the fuck"

Your faith in business is strange to me. Sorry you couldn't convince me. Some things I can be convinced of, but I have a higher bar for my evidence. I'll stick with a confident "I don't know who's hornier."

You can have any bar for your evidence ya want. I just think ya look a little silly being so convinced lol.

See ya around.

For your proposition of equal horniness to be true, one of two must be true: A)women are so repressed they don't even want sexual materials in which case, even if it's cultural and not biological, women are functionally less horny or B) they are so terrified that someone will bust in and search their web history which seems kind of a bizzare amount of repression.

This is an extremely uninspired list. Let me help.

1. Women could be put off from watching porn when first introduced due the male centered industry and generally less acceptance of their sexual expression leading to longer term differences in how they get their fix.
2. The smut industry while not as lucrative could produce more sexual stimulation per dollar. I know there is a lot of pirating in the smut community. And books take a while to get through.
3. Porn sites may not capture gender from their user base perfectly.
4. Again, there are a lot of ways to get off for free. Any women could get on a dating app and get their fix in half a day.
5. Women centered porn sites may not make as much per view.

I could keep going, but its becoming more work. My point is that there is way too much wiggle room in the money argument. You just can't account for how our culture affects their expression unless you've studied it.

Economics is much better for studying how money moves. Idk why we would use it to try and generalize the experiences of a group. It is exceptionally indirect and biased. It is a silly thing to use as a foundation for that kind of belief.

Edit: removed snarky comment, I was feeling a bit hot

Edit: just stumbled on this video, but its whole point is about how the different genders interact with sex differently: https://youtu.be/Qfpj5qQr9KA?si=F-fTAWOPZOK206cD

Its going, work has been a little more stressful and I've slept a little worse than usual.

I think any large platform will need to moderate, and moderation is gonna be biased and human.

Saying American's on Lemmy hate the vales America stands for is quite an assertion. That means your idea of what 'America sands for' isn't sensetive to everyone in America. I'd think on what that means about how you construct your idea of the nation.

I don't think you can hate a countries values because a country doesn't value as one entity. My values are American values even if we disagree.

Maybe try and join things in your local community. They likely think more like ya want, and may have just the mix of opinions you disagree with that ya want.

Maybe you need to make your own community? I'm also pretty sure there are some right leaning Lemmy instances, so I feel like a middle ground may exist for you somewhere.

Edit: conciseness

You mod the recipes community on feddit.uk

No, no no no this is impossible. They LIED?!?! /s

I agree that it can look like that at a glance, but why would we expect spending to reflect horniness when sexual expression is less accepted for women in many rich countries? Can you say to what degree that affects it? They may feel just as much hornyness and express it more privately. How can you be confident?

I admit, that if you look at the economic you presented, men spend more on sexual stuff. That is a fine conclusion. But it says very little to me about who is more horny.

Thanks!

Homie idk how many times I gotta say it. I'm agnostic to who's more horny. I get why I seem stubborn.

You can believe what you want. Your evidence is too indirect to convince me.

I really think we're arguing slightly different things though. Like it is even important for me say wealth inequality in the world means that sex spending better represents rich countries interests? Therefore has a very very large cultural bias. Not abstact, real cultures are different. Lots of people are unaccounted in your metric, and lots of peope are extremely over counted.

I can be convinced, you just haven't done it. I am not confident the data is out there. Spending definitely has too many flaws to be a good indicator.