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WIRED @wired.com

“There’s power in having sex, and there’s also power in withholding. Do you think Anne Boleyn went from lady-in-waiting to Queen of frickin’ England because she put out?" "Are You My First?" joins a string of shows about virgins as Gen Z shares how the gender divide is impacting their sex lives.

aug 25, 2025, 4:37 pm • 51 8

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Bardra @bardra.bsky.social

There’s power in hitachi, with a plug in cord but no other strings attached.

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aug 25, 2025, 4:53 pm • 0 0 • view
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Andrea @the1andonlyd-r-e.bsky.social

You think Gen Z not having sex might have something to do with not wanting to bring a child into a world that's falling apart?🤔🙄

aug 25, 2025, 4:48 pm • 0 0 • view
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Matthew 🦖 @moosewithablanket.bsky.social

There are ways to prevent pregnancy

aug 25, 2025, 4:51 pm • 0 0 • view
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woman that rolls @womanthatrolls.bsky.social

For now

aug 25, 2025, 4:59 pm • 2 0 • view
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Andrea @the1andonlyd-r-e.bsky.social

I know that and you know that but there are a lot of ignorant people out there who don't.

aug 25, 2025, 4:58 pm • 0 0 • view
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David Stone @david-stone.bsky.social

I imagine conservative single men are very frustrated these days, especially in Orange County.

aug 25, 2025, 5:03 pm • 1 0 • view
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Jessica Crabbit (she/her) @jessica1603.bsky.social

How the gender divide is exploiting children, you mean.

aug 25, 2025, 4:40 pm • 0 0 • view
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🇻🇪✊ 🦈 Wren 🗽⚖️ @fiddledidi.bsky.social

I want all teens and women to receive the HPV vaccines, whatever their sexual inclinations Sexual hygiene for the win!

aug 25, 2025, 8:02 pm • 2 0 • view
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🇻🇪✊ 🦈 Wren 🗽⚖️ @fiddledidi.bsky.social

and birth control! BC should be as normal as carrying your smartphone.

aug 25, 2025, 8:04 pm • 2 0 • view
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nachyocheese.bsky.social @nachyocheese.bsky.social

She promised she had magical powers and could give him a boy.

aug 25, 2025, 4:52 pm • 1 0 • view
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WIRED @wired.com

“A big reason why Gen Z isn’t dating that much is because women are getting so much more liberal and men are getting so much more conservative... If you don’t see women as people, then why would I even be having sex with you,” Ida, a 24-year-old TikToker shared.

aug 25, 2025, 4:38 pm • 297 50 • view
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Gator Hator @freedomlancer.bsky.social

The fascist apparatus feeds young men rat-poison dating advice because they need incels to work in the hate speech factory. Never listen to a single piece of "established" dating advice.

aug 25, 2025, 8:02 pm • 2 1 • view
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RoLynn @16rolynn.bsky.social

Not sure if men are more "conservative" or they just like the idea of controlling everybody and everything around them with no blow back.

aug 26, 2025, 1:15 am • 1 0 • view
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RoLynn @16rolynn.bsky.social

Can't even imagine having a "conservative" penis anywhere near me. Blech!

aug 26, 2025, 1:16 am • 0 0 • view
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BBeater ❌👑🇫🇷🇺🇸🇺🇦🎸 @gatorali.bsky.social

When my father told me as a small boy that women are fields to be seeded or dejections to be squashed under the feet, I knew men can't be asked what women are... I never asked because the truth was obvious: women and men are people. Period.

aug 25, 2025, 5:39 pm • 3 0 • view
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opposition22.bsky.social @opposition22.bsky.social

“Conservative” isn’t a thing anymore, there’s just batshit crazy.

aug 25, 2025, 5:51 pm • 5 0 • view
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if you don't fight you lose @sunnydarkgreen.bsky.social

Yes, calling them conservatives is just a shameless lie these days.

aug 25, 2025, 9:18 pm • 0 0 • view
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Harry Pujols @harrypujols.com

There’s nothing that makes a man more attractive that bullying the weak and blame problems on them. Conservative politics as of late.

aug 25, 2025, 4:50 pm • 4 0 • view
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WIRED @wired.com

“There are a lot of other cultural reasons that young people are not having sex that don’t really correlate at all to conservative politics or religion or a lack of awareness about sexuality,” says Magdalene Taylor, a sexual culture critic and editor at Playboy.

aug 25, 2025, 4:39 pm • 37 4 • view
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Kuprin, Moogle King of Space @mooglekingofspace.bsky.social

I'm queer, I'm 40, and women in their 20s have no problem jumping into MY bed. The problem is, the "men" would rather fuck 12 year olds!

aug 25, 2025, 5:17 pm • 3 0 • view
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Antifapup @antifapup.bsky.social

*Rolls eyes in queer* y'all are out of touch.

aug 25, 2025, 8:21 pm • 0 0 • view
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GlassShards @sharpshard.bsky.social

📌

aug 25, 2025, 5:48 pm • 0 0 • view
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DocLT @doclt.bsky.social

A young American women need to spend a summer in Europe so they can pick up a decent man from like the Netherlands or something

aug 25, 2025, 4:40 pm • 3 1 • view
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Alexandra Superbonita @superbonita.bsky.social

European men don't necessarily want to deal with women from the U.S.

aug 25, 2025, 5:17 pm • 0 0 • view
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DocLT @doclt.bsky.social

Well, it’s not like European men wouldn’t have right of refusal. I just think that is a more likely place for American women to find a good match than the US is right now.

aug 25, 2025, 5:27 pm • 2 1 • view
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Pensivetm @pensive-tm.bsky.social

Would you, as a modern woman, want to date someone who believes he’s your master to which you should submit? Barefoot and pregnant does not appeal to most thinking people.

aug 25, 2025, 4:47 pm • 17 2 • view
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Schmingy 🇨🇦 @sirschming.bsky.social

Do they know she was beheaded? Seems an important aspect of her life story.

aug 25, 2025, 4:39 pm • 5 0 • view
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nachyocheese.bsky.social @nachyocheese.bsky.social

By a giant, sharp phallus. Instead of the usual axe Henry brought in a specialist who could kill her with a sword.

aug 25, 2025, 4:55 pm • 1 0 • view
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Schmingy 🇨🇦 @sirschming.bsky.social

🤔 she must have been a particularly strong female personality. Seems he felt emasculated by her.

aug 25, 2025, 4:59 pm • 0 0 • view
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Matthew 🦖 @moosewithablanket.bsky.social

The 'Manosphere' created the problem they claim to cure and it's deluded a lot of foolish men, unfortunately.

aug 25, 2025, 4:43 pm • 5 0 • view
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retiredwhitelady.bsky.social @retiredwhitelady.bsky.social

Yikes, choosing Anne Boleyn as your paradigm kinda gives the lie to the argument, unless having your head chopped off in the end isn't disqualifying

aug 25, 2025, 5:07 pm • 2 0 • view
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Richard Fireplace @onsonsweemey.bsky.social

Girlboss Anne Boleyn

aug 25, 2025, 4:41 pm • 1 0 • view
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Curious One ✌️📚🌱🌊🌍 @curieux-un.bsky.social

Anne Boylen may not have had intercourse before marriage but she did quite a lot of sexting . . . Considered the biggest tease. And he resented her for it. Women can never win.

aug 25, 2025, 4:45 pm • 1 0 • view
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nachyocheese.bsky.social @nachyocheese.bsky.social

She was rumored to have already been married and not in fact a virgin. Really a dumb choice for an example. www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump...

aug 25, 2025, 5:01 pm • 1 0 • view
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Curious One ✌️📚🌱🌊🌍 @curieux-un.bsky.social

Agreed.

aug 25, 2025, 5:02 pm • 0 0 • view