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Kablooie

(18,628 posts)
Tue Mar 17, 2020, 11:01 PM Mar 2020

If this goes on for months what happens to dating?

What are the horny young folks gonna do?
And being holed up means in 9 months, next December, there will be a lot more babies than normal.

I fear that this will change the world permanently.
How, I don't know, but the world we've known may not return.

The Maggots wanted to shake things up and it looks like they will get their wish.
Boy will they get it.

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If this goes on for months what happens to dating? (Original Post) Kablooie Mar 2020 OP
Kablooie!!! elleng Mar 2020 #1
Ha. Kablooie Mar 2020 #2
There will be a lot of out of work sex workers as well. rzemanfl Mar 2020 #3
not turning out to vote so they might as well date nt msongs Mar 2020 #4
Porn... Wounded Bear Mar 2020 #5
My cousin posted that a lot of single young men will have very soft hands after this is over. Yonnie3 Mar 2020 #6
They will be washing their hands a lot to avoid the virus? Doodley Mar 2020 #8
No, they'll be using a lot of handle lotion. SunSeeker Mar 2020 #19
Oh, I've already stocked up on that and toilet paper. Should see me though the next few months! Doodley Mar 2020 #26
More porn and sexting. Social distancing with women at six feet apart will be difficult. Doodley Mar 2020 #7
I will gladly do my part to help horny woman.... if my wife agrees that is... lol... getagrip_already Mar 2020 #9
Get a grip already, okay? PJMcK Mar 2020 #18
tx... getagrip_already Mar 2020 #21
If you thought Facebook did wonky stuff with the data they collect, you ain't seen nothing yet. RockRaven Mar 2020 #10
You're gonna need a bigger condom. n/t PoliticAverse Mar 2020 #11
Semen retention headaches Generic Brad Mar 2020 #12
re: "there will be a lot more babies than normal" and/or a lot more divorces! n/t thesquanderer Mar 2020 #13
When it's over there's gonna be a tsunami of newly divorced folks on the market. BamaRefugee Mar 2020 #14
LOL. I see you've met my husband. SunSeeker Mar 2020 #17
It's definitely going to be a different world, no matter how quickly the health issues resolve. Hoyt Mar 2020 #15
We told our 16 yr old son he can see his girlfriend and that's it. No other friends. SunSeeker Mar 2020 #16
I thought about this the other day customerserviceguy Mar 2020 #20
I have no issue, as I'm in a long-distance relationship sakabatou Mar 2020 #22
The palm sisters will stay with them Bev54 Mar 2020 #23
Not worried a bit... GulfCoast66 Mar 2020 #24
You're right about one thing... defacto7 Mar 2020 #25
Phone sex and robots delisen Mar 2020 #27
Well... Xolodno Mar 2020 #28
Maybe it'll be good for realdoll sales. Kablooie Mar 2020 #29
As long as being a selfish super rich asshole isn't a thing any more? Brainfodder Mar 2020 #30

Yonnie3

(17,434 posts)
6. My cousin posted that a lot of single young men will have very soft hands after this is over.
Tue Mar 17, 2020, 11:11 PM
Mar 2020

I wonder what she meant by that.

Doodley

(9,088 posts)
7. More porn and sexting. Social distancing with women at six feet apart will be difficult.
Tue Mar 17, 2020, 11:11 PM
Mar 2020

Meeting women in bars and restaurants will have to stop. Even the sex industry will have to change. I guess I will just have to spend more time with the wife.

getagrip_already

(14,721 posts)
9. I will gladly do my part to help horny woman.... if my wife agrees that is... lol...
Tue Mar 17, 2020, 11:14 PM
Mar 2020

I'm older, but healthy. At my age, anyone in tight skin looks good, but I'm married, so lets take it very slowly. lol.

Hey, anything is possible, right??

RockRaven

(14,959 posts)
10. If you thought Facebook did wonky stuff with the data they collect, you ain't seen nothing yet.
Tue Mar 17, 2020, 11:15 PM
Mar 2020

Who knows what the data mining of porn sites, and weaponization of that data, will yield during the course of these isolation periods?

BamaRefugee

(3,483 posts)
14. When it's over there's gonna be a tsunami of newly divorced folks on the market.
Tue Mar 17, 2020, 11:29 PM
Mar 2020

Familiarity breeds contempt.

And a few months of shelter in place is gonna make people contemptible.

 

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)
15. It's definitely going to be a different world, no matter how quickly the health issues resolve.
Tue Mar 17, 2020, 11:30 PM
Mar 2020

The internet will help some.

SunSeeker

(51,550 posts)
16. We told our 16 yr old son he can see his girlfriend and that's it. No other friends.
Tue Mar 17, 2020, 11:33 PM
Mar 2020

They're in the same grade at the same high school (closed on 3-13-2020 due to state-ordered social distancing ) and she lives just 4 blocks away. We've communicated with her parents and we figure whatever germs either teen has, they both have by now. They can continue to hang out at each other's house, but they obviously can't go to movie theaters, restaurants, etc, that's all been shut down by the County. They've been running together in the neighborhood in the mornings (both are athletes). That's about it. I imagine both will get quite antsy as the days drag on. Their youth sports teams have all suspended operations. It is looking like school and sports will be shut down until at least summer. God Help us.

customerserviceguy

(25,183 posts)
20. I thought about this the other day
Tue Mar 17, 2020, 11:45 PM
Mar 2020

Perhaps, instead of quickie hookups, people will spend a bit more time with online potential partners to get to know them better. That could be a good thing.

GulfCoast66

(11,949 posts)
24. Not worried a bit...
Wed Mar 18, 2020, 12:01 AM
Mar 2020

I don’t think anyone on DU, who like me skew older doubt there is one thing above all others that will get young folks to find a way around a quarantine.

Hell, it can’t be worse than some of the fathers I managed to avoid!

defacto7

(13,485 posts)
25. You're right about one thing...
Wed Mar 18, 2020, 12:14 AM
Mar 2020

The world will never be the same. The world we've known will not return... because it never does. This is going to change everything but everything always changes anyway. This is scary and it's not going to be the smoothest months of our lives but it will be a new world when we come out the other side and that's what living on planet earth is all about. Mother earth makes fools of us all in the end... so take a step and here we go....

delisen

(6,042 posts)
27. Phone sex and robots
Wed Mar 18, 2020, 12:33 AM
Mar 2020

Sex as we know it will become passe anyway as climate change releases old frozen viruses

Xolodno

(6,390 posts)
28. Well...
Wed Mar 18, 2020, 12:34 AM
Mar 2020

my wife is happy that I'm home. When I'm home I cook breakfast and most of the time, dinner. Add to that, when she says she needs to clean the house I often say "nah, its fine...were not expecting anyone". Plus, when I WFH, I often fix something, granted its a small thing, but its fixed.

Brainfodder

(6,423 posts)
30. As long as being a selfish super rich asshole isn't a thing any more?
Wed Mar 18, 2020, 02:54 AM
Mar 2020

I'm then good?



They are so rich and still dodge taxes, yeah we need all those people....

UP AGAINST THE WALL!

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