WEBVTT - Ben Shapiro Wrote A Book About Sex 0:00:02.480 --> 0:00:10.639 What's profoundly sexually frustrated my Ben Shapiro. This is a 0:00:10.680 --> 0:00:13.840 special book episode. I'm Robert Evans behind the Bastards podcast 0:00:13.920 --> 0:00:16.279 Worst People tell you all about him. Ben Shapiro was 0:00:16.320 --> 0:00:19.079 one of our favorite Worst People who was simultaneously far 0:00:19.160 --> 0:00:21.840 too personally boring to get an episode dedicated to his 0:00:21.960 --> 0:00:25.799 life and hilarious enough that we we continue to analyze 0:00:25.840 --> 0:00:29.520 his work. And today I've brought on Sophia Alexandra, one 0:00:29.520 --> 0:00:32.240 of my favorite guests, to talk about a subject. Sophia, 0:00:32.440 --> 0:00:34.800 you do a podcast about sex, right You're you're you're 0:00:34.840 --> 0:00:38.640 something of a sexpert? Would that be sure? Do podcast 0:00:38.720 --> 0:00:42.040 called Private Parts Unknown about love and sex around the world, 0:00:42.880 --> 0:00:47.800 And as such, I um would do what I would 0:00:47.840 --> 0:00:52.400 describe as anti Ben Shapiro wing as I try to 0:00:52.479 --> 0:00:56.360 make sure people get wet. Sophia, I think that may 0:00:56.360 --> 0:00:58.520 be unfair, and I think you actually might have a 0:00:58.560 --> 0:01:01.040 lot to learn from Ben Shapiro, and so as a 0:01:01.160 --> 0:01:04.960 service to you, as a small brained woman, I'm sure 0:01:05.160 --> 0:01:08.559 I can as a service to you, I'm gonna play 0:01:08.600 --> 0:01:12.000 this video of Bin Shapiro explaining the concept of pegging. 0:01:13.120 --> 0:01:18.800 Oh no, oh no, at least she trust and gay. 0:01:18.920 --> 0:01:20.840 That's pretty exciting and gay we trust is. We had 0:01:20.880 --> 0:01:24.480 Megan Rapino and then we had Kara di Levine and 0:01:24.600 --> 0:01:26.800 I maybe screwing up her name, but frankly I don't 0:01:26.800 --> 0:01:29.040 care because I really don't know very much who she is. 0:01:29.280 --> 0:01:32.120 Apparently she's some sort of model and here she was 0:01:32.160 --> 0:01:37.199 modeling a bib slash straight jacket. I don't know what 0:01:37.240 --> 0:01:39.360 this top is supposed to be. And it says, peg 0:01:39.480 --> 0:01:44.280 the patriarchy. Oh the courage, Oh the stunning courage and bravery, 0:01:44.640 --> 0:01:48.160 Peg the patriarchy because pegging, of course, is an obscure 0:01:48.240 --> 0:01:53.640 sexual practice in which women perform the the the more 0:01:53.680 --> 0:02:01.400 aggressive sexual act on men, Peg the patriarchy, right, which, yeah, 0:02:01.680 --> 0:02:04.600 and if she's pegging the patriarchy by being model for 0:02:04.720 --> 0:02:18.639 the pleasure of men generally speaking, Okay, that's that's enough. 0:02:19.000 --> 0:02:22.320 I just needed the explanation of pegging as a woman 0:02:22.400 --> 0:02:26.279 performing the and then he stutters, like nine times aggressive 0:02:26.360 --> 0:02:32.400 part of sex. But also it's a rare act. It 0:02:32.480 --> 0:02:34.320 tells you a lot about ben because one of the 0:02:34.320 --> 0:02:39.400 things that tells you, like, if you have never pleased 0:02:39.520 --> 0:02:43.480 a sexual partner with a vagina, you might believe that 0:02:44.080 --> 0:02:48.480 you cannot be penetrated and do so aggressively. But you 0:02:48.600 --> 0:02:55.920 can also I don't know who understands less about pegging 0:02:55.960 --> 0:03:00.519 the patriarchy, karadel Avian or Benship. Yeah, mean, like I 0:03:00.840 --> 0:03:05.919 think that's what a ridiculous thing. Dejectively feels good. That's 0:03:06.040 --> 0:03:09.000 why you would do it. And she's like, can we 0:03:09.680 --> 0:03:13.000 It's like, let's blow the patriarchy. I'm like, yeah, I'm 0:03:13.160 --> 0:03:16.520 frustrated by it because there's nothing bad about pegging, and 0:03:16.600 --> 0:03:21.720 that's like the inherent implication of that wonderful unpleasant No, 0:03:21.840 --> 0:03:27.040 it's lovely. Um, but like, yeah, anyway, I just been 0:03:27.120 --> 0:03:31.480 Shapiro's understanding of sex is always just a beautiful thing. 0:03:31.680 --> 0:03:34.720 And Sophia, what if I were to tell you that 0:03:34.840 --> 0:03:40.080 Bennethan Shapiro wrote an entire book about sex? Do you 0:03:40.080 --> 0:03:50.280 mean bent Affer? Yeah? Been benefits been off, Bennet, I 0:03:50.320 --> 0:03:53.440 don't know, I don't know. Whatever. How would you feel 0:03:53.480 --> 0:03:56.680 if I told you that, Sophia? Um, I would laugh 0:03:57.000 --> 0:03:59.360 very hard. And that is why I'm excited to be 0:03:59.560 --> 0:04:04.880 on this. Well, he did. He published the book Porn Generation. 0:04:05.400 --> 0:04:07.920 I believe it was published in two thousand eight, so 0:04:08.080 --> 0:04:11.400 back before you know, anybody knew who been Shapiro, was 0:04:12.520 --> 0:04:18.080 that my porn Generation? Yeah, I almost got that one, 0:04:18.160 --> 0:04:23.880 so Sophia almost. Oh no, the Who? Yeah, wait about 0:04:24.000 --> 0:04:25.760 that's the who? I know about the Who. Tommy was 0:04:25.839 --> 0:04:30.080 the first album I ever bought. We finally found a 0:04:30.320 --> 0:04:36.279 fucking pop culture reference from a millionillion years ago. Tommy 0:04:36.360 --> 0:04:38.320 is one of my favorite pieces of music. I mean, 0:04:38.520 --> 0:04:41.760 it's awesome, but who are awesome? It was? It was 0:04:41.880 --> 0:04:43.640 quite an era in which you could have a rock 0:04:43.720 --> 0:04:48.520 opera that included a song about your uncle Ernie molesting you, 0:04:48.760 --> 0:04:52.960 which is a banger, like a very very like morally 0:04:53.080 --> 0:04:57.320 confusing banger because it fettle about an incredible song, The Hatcher, 0:04:57.520 --> 0:05:03.159 The Catcher and the Rye of Songs. Now, Sophia sorry, 0:05:03.200 --> 0:05:05.240 It was two thousand thirteen that he wrote this book, 0:05:05.279 --> 0:05:08.120 still before any reasonable person had ever heard of Ben Shapiro. 0:05:08.880 --> 0:05:12.440 It's called obviously that's the year that orgasms were invented? Correct, 0:05:12.520 --> 0:05:15.480 because none had occurred until Ben Shapiro wrote this book. 0:05:15.520 --> 0:05:20.560 Not in my Shapiro family, for certain. So it's called 0:05:20.680 --> 0:05:24.960 Porn Generation. How social Liberalism is corrupting our future. Um, 0:05:25.200 --> 0:05:29.800 the title is it looks like look up this title 0:05:29.800 --> 0:05:31.480 for me, because I'm trying to figure out what's actually 0:05:31.560 --> 0:05:35.280 going on with the title. It appears to be Um, 0:05:36.120 --> 0:05:39.080 it appears to be the word porn and red with 0:05:39.320 --> 0:05:41.480 I'm not sure if that's a cock ring or just 0:05:41.680 --> 0:05:44.800 a nose ring on the word porn, Like if that's 0:05:44.920 --> 0:05:49.520 the maybe a belly button ring. Um. It's weird that 0:05:49.640 --> 0:05:53.040 it's there's like just a ring on it. Um. Um. 0:05:53.200 --> 0:05:58.560 I think it is so vague because he's just against 0:05:58.880 --> 0:06:01.480 the concept of Pierre things. Yeah. I think it might 0:06:01.520 --> 0:06:06.400 be just like he's like two stars half piercings. Yes, 0:06:07.160 --> 0:06:15.840 it's very funny concern like understand being scared of piercings, 0:06:16.000 --> 0:06:23.279 like don't yeah, yeah, when when a nose piercing meant 0:06:23.360 --> 0:06:26.760 that you were like three seconds away from executing an 0:06:26.760 --> 0:06:31.920 act of sexual terrorism? Um, but not in two thousand thirteen. 0:06:32.360 --> 0:06:35.480 So the cover also has one of those explicit warning 0:06:35.560 --> 0:06:39.800 explicit lyrics sign which I think is ironic. Um. And 0:06:39.920 --> 0:06:42.680 then there's a quote from Ann Coulter on the front. 0:06:43.200 --> 0:06:46.520 Ben Shapiro's writing a smart, informative, and incisive. He is 0:06:46.600 --> 0:06:51.440 wise behind his ears without losing the refreshing fearlessness of youth. Yes, 0:06:51.520 --> 0:06:55.760 when I think it's been Shapiro, I think fearless. I'm sorry, 0:06:56.520 --> 0:07:00.080 did you say wise beyond his ears? Wise be on 0:07:00.200 --> 0:07:04.000 to his years? Um? He knows that that the act 0:07:04.040 --> 0:07:09.600 of penetration um is fundamentally aggressive. He literally just found 0:07:09.640 --> 0:07:13.560 out women get wet last year. Yeah, well, I don't 0:07:13.600 --> 0:07:16.840 know that he found that. He's a wonder kid because 0:07:17.000 --> 0:07:19.680 as as as I recall, his wife told him that 0:07:20.200 --> 0:07:23.560 a vagina being wet was a sign of infection. She did, 0:07:23.680 --> 0:07:26.480 She said, there's something wrong with these women. For example, 0:07:26.920 --> 0:07:31.360 you know in my life never does and the only 0:07:31.480 --> 0:07:34.600 people I get wet with other people outside of this marriage. 0:07:35.400 --> 0:07:39.200 Can I get an amen? Every time anymously fucking on 0:07:39.320 --> 0:07:42.960 Tinder he talks about sex. He owns himself to a 0:07:43.040 --> 0:07:48.120 degree that I didn't realize was possible. Like you repeatedly 0:07:48.200 --> 0:07:51.560 have give people so much ammunition to dunk on you, 0:07:51.840 --> 0:07:57.560 and not even like it's incredible, it's breathtaking, Like it's 0:07:57.600 --> 0:07:59.440 like you would have to if you were not, if 0:07:59.480 --> 0:08:02.440 you didn't have the natural gifts been Shapiro had, you 0:08:02.480 --> 0:08:04.240 would have to create a like you would have to 0:08:04.320 --> 0:08:06.800 work as a full time job to be owned that hard? 0:08:07.720 --> 0:08:10.480 Did he not get bullied as a kid he's like, 0:08:10.720 --> 0:08:17.280 I mean, I think, oh, but probably still yes, the 0:08:17.400 --> 0:08:22.640 world has bullied Been Shapiro because like, you know, I 0:08:22.840 --> 0:08:25.480 was bullied and you know exactly which ship is going 0:08:25.520 --> 0:08:29.480 to be ammunition. How do you how do you live 0:08:29.600 --> 0:08:32.800 here on God's Green Internet or it or just typing ship? 0:08:33.040 --> 0:08:36.319 Like I don't know how to please women? Like it's incredible, 0:08:36.480 --> 0:08:40.679 It's just crazy, it's just just amazing. Um. So the 0:08:40.840 --> 0:08:43.640 it opens with a dedication. This is written by Ben 0:08:44.080 --> 0:08:48.240 to all members of my generation striving to maintain their dignity, honor, virtue, 0:08:48.320 --> 0:08:51.400 and innocence and a chaotic culture, and to their parents. 0:08:52.280 --> 0:08:54.719 I will remind you, because he talks about maintaining his 0:08:54.840 --> 0:08:57.319 innocence that a little less than a decade before this, 0:08:57.400 --> 0:09:00.319 when he was I think seventeen, Been Shapiro wrote a 0:09:00.440 --> 0:09:04.400 column for a conservative website arguing that there's no such 0:09:04.480 --> 0:09:07.480 thing as civilian casualties in Afghanistan and we shouldn't care 0:09:07.520 --> 0:09:10.800 how many women and children are bombs gil um. Innocence 0:09:11.840 --> 0:09:16.280 pegging is aggressive, but but celebrating the murder of civilians 0:09:16.559 --> 0:09:20.439 by twenty first century weaponry is totally fine. That is 0:09:20.840 --> 0:09:25.200 Ben Shapiro's ethical stance. Who the funk is the intended audience, 0:09:25.240 --> 0:09:27.480 because he just tried to pretend like I was for 0:09:27.640 --> 0:09:31.800 parents and kids. Well, I guess I think I can 0:09:31.880 --> 0:09:36.080 help you here because chapter one is titled A Generation Lost, 0:09:36.640 --> 0:09:38.920 and it opens up with a quote from John Locke, who, 0:09:38.960 --> 0:09:41.439 as you may know, as a man who never fucked um, 0:09:41.720 --> 0:09:47.040 absolutely did not fuck. The John Lock quote is virtue 0:09:47.160 --> 0:09:51.760 is oh, Hobbs. Hobbs didn't do anything but funck. The 0:09:51.840 --> 0:09:54.640 only reason we have writings from Hobbs is that somebody 0:09:54.760 --> 0:09:57.160 was taking them down while he was in mid bone. 0:09:57.720 --> 0:10:01.160 He just dictated them all. Like David Mill writing Deadwood. 0:10:02.080 --> 0:10:05.080 He occasionally had to take a like a syphilis break, 0:10:05.280 --> 0:10:07.439 and that's when you would knock out some writing, and 0:10:07.559 --> 0:10:11.560 then he would just go right back to fucking. Yeah. Um, 0:10:12.040 --> 0:10:19.520 that's lock could never um. So the Lock quote is 0:10:19.640 --> 0:10:22.280 virtue was harder to be got the knowledge of the world, 0:10:22.400 --> 0:10:26.120 and if lost in a young man is seldom recovered. Um. 0:10:27.120 --> 0:10:31.160 John Locke, he's just being like, don't learn things, just 0:10:31.600 --> 0:10:35.160 stay innocent and hide. That's kind of what that sounds like. 0:10:35.320 --> 0:10:38.520 The nightmare of thinking that you are as a person 0:10:38.640 --> 0:10:42.319 completely static and you cannot change. You should be static 0:10:42.600 --> 0:10:46.839 changing growing. These are all bad things. That is kind 0:10:46.880 --> 0:10:49.600 of the essence of conservatism. And that's why he never 0:10:49.720 --> 0:10:52.439 got hard. He's against growing. No, he is against growing, 0:10:52.559 --> 0:10:54.240 so his dick would not get hard. No, no, no, 0:10:54.440 --> 0:10:58.319 you you celebrate that. So so here's here's how this 0:10:58.440 --> 0:11:01.760 book opens. This has been and I am a member 0:11:01.800 --> 0:11:05.079 of a lost generation. We have lost our values, we 0:11:05.160 --> 0:11:08.080 have lost our faith, and we have lost ourselves as 0:11:08.120 --> 0:11:12.199 societal standards and traditional values have declined, and the crassest 0:11:12.320 --> 0:11:16.199 elements of sexual deviancy and pornography if taken over the 0:11:16.280 --> 0:11:19.400 public square. It is the youngest Americans who have paid 0:11:19.440 --> 0:11:22.959 the price. Never in our country's history has a generation 0:11:23.080 --> 0:11:26.520 been so empowered, so wealthy, so privileged, and yet so empty. 0:11:27.200 --> 0:11:29.400 I want to look up the levels of wealth in 0:11:29.480 --> 0:11:33.080 the millennials, just just just to point out that he's 0:11:33.480 --> 0:11:36.600 comprehensively wrong about everything. Oh do you mean the generation 0:11:36.800 --> 0:11:40.120 that objectively is doing way worse than their parents? Yeah? 0:11:40.160 --> 0:11:44.120 By like, um, so millennials are eighty percent as wealthy 0:11:44.200 --> 0:11:47.000 as their parents were at this age. Uh. And this 0:11:47.160 --> 0:11:49.880 is from Bloomberg. In almost every way measurable. Millennials in 0:11:49.920 --> 0:11:52.240 the US at forty are doing worse financially than the 0:11:52.320 --> 0:11:57.079 generations that came before them. Um, it's it's it's incredible. 0:11:57.120 --> 0:12:00.120 We love millennials own less than five percent of all 0:12:00.280 --> 0:12:02.439 US wealth, and like two percent of that alone is 0:12:02.480 --> 0:12:07.280 Mark Suckerberg. Um. It's just it's hysterical how wrong he is. Um, 0:12:07.640 --> 0:12:10.640 because because he's he's he's an idiot. Um. I'm not 0:12:10.720 --> 0:12:12.160 going to read the rest of the book in my 0:12:12.200 --> 0:12:15.120 Ben Shapiro voice because people will stop listening, and they 0:12:15.240 --> 0:12:17.880 ought to, but I just kind of felt the need 0:12:17.960 --> 0:12:20.800 to with that. It was if a tool and a 0:12:20.960 --> 0:12:26.520 toad had a gross baby, yeah, somehow sexless. I cannot Yeah, 0:12:27.200 --> 0:12:30.559 if Gilbert Grape and Gilbert Godfrey had a baby and 0:12:30.679 --> 0:12:34.120 then that baby, I don't know. I don't even know, 0:12:34.280 --> 0:12:36.079 Like what could be sad enough to happen to a 0:12:36.120 --> 0:12:38.040 baby to make it Ben Shapiro. I guess that's the 0:12:38.120 --> 0:12:40.640 mystery of Ben Shapiro, is how did someone that's sad 0:12:40.760 --> 0:12:45.240 come about? Um? And I have some information on that answer, 0:12:45.360 --> 0:12:48.760 but but but but I cannot share it. Um. So 0:12:49.520 --> 0:12:51.680 Ben goes on to say, this book is not written 0:12:51.720 --> 0:12:54.439 from the perspective of a parent, a sociologist, or a teacher, 0:12:54.520 --> 0:12:57.360 but of a peer. So there's the answer to your question, Sophia. 0:12:57.559 --> 0:13:01.199 So this is my generation, the poor in generation, and 0:13:01.320 --> 0:13:06.480 for good or ill, we are all America's future. So 0:13:06.600 --> 0:13:10.040 that's very funny. Um. I would pay good fucking money 0:13:10.320 --> 0:13:13.839 for Ben Shapiro's porn history. So if anyone is a 0:13:13.920 --> 0:13:19.640 hacker and has that information allegedly allegedly post it, I 0:13:19.760 --> 0:13:22.079 also just want to go on to note because the 0:13:22.160 --> 0:13:25.000 point here is that Ben Shapiro is comprehensively wrong about everything. 0:13:25.440 --> 0:13:28.880 He's wrong about this being a generation of sexual deviancy. 0:13:29.000 --> 0:13:32.040 Millennials and Generation Z are having less casual sex than 0:13:32.080 --> 0:13:35.240 Generation X or the Baby Boomers, according to a two 0:13:35.320 --> 0:13:40.720 thou eighteen study, actually less sex in general, preod less sex, 0:13:41.240 --> 0:13:45.320 less alcohol consumption, more social media, living for with parents 0:13:45.400 --> 0:13:48.400 for longer. Um. Yeah, that came out into There was 0:13:48.400 --> 0:13:52.000 a study about that in two thousand fourteen. Um, so again, 0:13:52.280 --> 0:13:55.920 Ben Shapiro. If Ben Shapiro makes a claim, you just 0:13:56.040 --> 0:14:01.840 have to assume the opposite is true. Yep. So Um 0:14:02.000 --> 0:14:04.280 he goes on to blame thats how his wife tries 0:14:04.360 --> 0:14:07.360 to get him to find her clip. So okay, if 0:14:07.440 --> 0:14:10.720 I say left, this motherfucker is going to go right yeah, okay, 0:14:11.000 --> 0:14:13.559 so that's just how I'm going to reverse engineer this 0:14:13.679 --> 0:14:18.439 ship and still still bone dry, bone dry. The last 0:14:18.520 --> 0:14:20.400 time she tried to get him to find her clip, 0:14:20.480 --> 0:14:26.320 he wound up in Haifa. Actually that is why he's 0:14:26.320 --> 0:14:30.120 such a rabid Zionist. It allows him to avoid He thinks, 0:14:30.200 --> 0:14:39.920 it's my man winds up in the dead sea. Um, 0:14:40.200 --> 0:14:44.000 your ms, I am in hi Fa looking for her clip. 0:14:48.880 --> 0:14:52.960 So he blames the deviancy of the current generation, which 0:14:53.000 --> 0:14:56.480 is he's talking about millennials here. It's generation Z wasn't 0:14:56.520 --> 0:14:59.480 really much of a topic of discussion. Um. He blames 0:14:59.760 --> 0:15:05.880 the devancy on moral relativism, radical feminism, and generational nihilism. Um. 0:15:07.000 --> 0:15:11.280 So that's great, umially in your nerd face, you know what. 0:15:13.920 --> 0:15:16.680 He says that, instead of adopting stronger moral standards are 0:15:16.720 --> 0:15:20.280 society has embraced the lure of personal fulfillment. In a 0:15:20.360 --> 0:15:23.680 world where all values are equal, where everything is simply 0:15:23.720 --> 0:15:27.680 a matter of choice, narcissism rules the day. Our culture 0:15:27.680 --> 0:15:31.200 has bred hollow young men obsessed with self gratification. Young 0:15:31.240 --> 0:15:34.240 women are told to act like sex objects and enjoy it. 0:15:34.720 --> 0:15:38.080 The revisionist historians of effectively labeled obscenity as a right 0:15:38.120 --> 0:15:41.360 that the Founding Fathers sought to protect. Society told the 0:15:41.440 --> 0:15:44.840 poor in generation that final moral authority rests inside each 0:15:44.920 --> 0:15:48.280 of us, and in our vanity, we listened. I can't. 0:15:48.560 --> 0:15:50.280 I didn't mean to fade into the voice. It just 0:15:50.400 --> 0:15:53.200 how are you act if you're acting like a sexual 0:15:53.360 --> 0:16:00.080 object and you're enjoying it? How are you acting that? 0:16:02.600 --> 0:16:08.320 Completely a statement that makes zero sense. Yeah, it's it's 0:16:08.480 --> 0:16:15.680 it's really it's really outstanding. Um, yeah, this is outstanding. 0:16:17.160 --> 0:16:21.560 Are acting like you like gay sex and you're enjoying it? Yeah? 0:16:22.120 --> 0:16:28.400 Hey guess what? Yeah, I got used for you. Alright, 0:16:28.480 --> 0:16:30.840 we're all invited too this year's Pride parade. Okay, that 0:16:30.960 --> 0:16:34.360 is all. Before we move into ads, I want to 0:16:34.440 --> 0:16:37.800 note one other thing Ben got wrong, Because you could argue, 0:16:38.040 --> 0:16:41.040 we already pointed out this millennials and generations he have 0:16:41.160 --> 0:16:43.520 less sex with fewer partners than the generations before them, 0:16:43.560 --> 0:16:47.560 so they are objectively less slutty. Um, but you might argue, well, 0:16:47.600 --> 0:16:49.720 but Ben is also saying that porn is the problem, 0:16:49.800 --> 0:16:52.440 so maybe he maybe his argument is right, And because 0:16:52.480 --> 0:16:55.480 of all the poinn we're consuming, we're fucking less, which 0:16:55.560 --> 0:16:58.360 isn't the argument Ben is making. He's comprehensively wrong. But 0:16:58.400 --> 0:17:00.920 I want to note that there. I want to just 0:17:01.000 --> 0:17:04.200 read a quote from Vice about the the argument that 0:17:04.320 --> 0:17:09.200 like hass porn, why millennials are fucking less. Unfortunately, there's 0:17:09.240 --> 0:17:11.879 one problem with this explanation. It's completely wrong. In a 0:17:11.960 --> 0:17:14.919 study published earlier this year in the Archives of Sexual Behavior, 0:17:15.000 --> 0:17:17.520 researchers analyzed a quarter centuries worth of data from the 0:17:17.600 --> 0:17:21.280 General Social Survey, a nationally representative US survey conducted most 0:17:21.359 --> 0:17:24.240 years that inquires about American sex lives, among other things, 0:17:24.520 --> 0:17:28.160 since nineteen nine, Participants have been asked two key questions, 0:17:28.200 --> 0:17:30.600 whether they have seen a pornographic movie in the last year, 0:17:30.680 --> 0:17:32.560 and how often they were having sex during the same 0:17:32.640 --> 0:17:35.520 time period. This allowed researchers to see whether these two 0:17:35.600 --> 0:17:38.520 things were related. It turns out that Americans across the board, 0:17:38.640 --> 0:17:40.800 not just millennials, were having less sex today than they 0:17:40.840 --> 0:17:43.400 were in the past. However, millennials were doing it less 0:17:43.400 --> 0:17:45.920 than everyone else, and while this decline in sexual activity 0:17:46.040 --> 0:17:48.560 was linked to porn use, the results probably weren't what 0:17:48.640 --> 0:17:52.119 you were expecting. Specifically, rather than being linked to less sex, watching, 0:17:52.160 --> 0:17:55.120 porn was actually linked to having more sex. In other words, 0:17:55.160 --> 0:17:57.320 though porn might seem like the logical target to blame 0:17:57.359 --> 0:17:59.520 when it comes to why millennials and everyone else are 0:17:59.520 --> 0:18:02.480 getting laid less offense, it's not the right one. So 0:18:02.680 --> 0:18:04.760 if it's not porn, then what else might be going on? 0:18:05.000 --> 0:18:07.520 Another common sense explanation is that it's due to changes 0:18:07.560 --> 0:18:10.160 in work life balance. Working more should translate to alex 0:18:10.240 --> 0:18:13.640 active sex life. However, the news Archived study also discounts 0:18:13.720 --> 0:18:17.880 this possibility, finding that unexpectedly working longer hours like watching porn, 0:18:18.040 --> 0:18:20.600 was linked to more sex. Instead. What we're seeing here 0:18:20.680 --> 0:18:23.480 has likely to do with changing marriage patterns. Studies have 0:18:23.560 --> 0:18:26.040 pretty consistently found that married people have to tend to 0:18:26.080 --> 0:18:28.880 have more sex than single people. However, given that millennials 0:18:28.920 --> 0:18:31.040 are waiting longer and longer to get married, the average 0:18:31.040 --> 0:18:32.920 age of a first marriage is now closer to thirty, 0:18:33.160 --> 0:18:36.040 perhaps that's part of the reason why they're less sexually active. So, 0:18:36.160 --> 0:18:41.120 in other words, millennials are fucking less because they're doing 0:18:41.200 --> 0:18:44.080 the thing that Ben Shapiro says they should be doing, 0:18:44.320 --> 0:18:46.840 which is waiting longer to have sex and having fewer 0:18:46.880 --> 0:18:52.320 sexual partners. Like Again, like these people's understanding of everything 0:18:52.400 --> 0:18:56.560 that's actually happening in society is completely off. Like it's 0:18:56.640 --> 0:18:59.200 the same way that people who are against abortion are 0:18:59.280 --> 0:19:03.840 also suppers control and you're like, okay, well are you 0:19:03.960 --> 0:19:09.159 gonna shoot all the babies? Like I don't understand, or 0:19:09.240 --> 0:19:11.800 the pregnant the pregnant women, you're killing the pregnant women. 0:19:11.880 --> 0:19:14.560 Got it. Yeah, It's just there's a lot of reasons. 0:19:14.600 --> 0:19:16.280 And it's not just like people are waiting longer for 0:19:16.359 --> 0:19:19.040 marriage people. There's a number of reasons. Some people like 0:19:19.119 --> 0:19:23.160 suspect that like antidepressant medication has an impact on it um, 0:19:24.280 --> 0:19:28.000 but like as a general rule, like comprehensively, the argument 0:19:28.119 --> 0:19:31.960 that like this generation is somehow like more sexually depraved 0:19:32.040 --> 0:19:35.400 and active than before isn't the case. And the most 0:19:35.440 --> 0:19:37.399 you can say is that now people are talking a 0:19:37.480 --> 0:19:39.640 little bit more about some of the weird sex stuff 0:19:39.680 --> 0:19:43.480 that they've always done. But like, I have a theory 0:19:43.600 --> 0:19:49.560 too as to why I think that millennials are fucking less. 0:19:50.160 --> 0:19:56.800 It's because of like the rampant insecurity and like being alive, 0:19:57.119 --> 0:20:01.040 because most people don't have a safety net. There's been 0:20:01.080 --> 0:20:06.640 a housing collapse, there's been a pandemic. I mean, there's 0:20:06.680 --> 0:20:10.040 been nothing since fucked up ship since nine eleven. Uh 0:20:10.600 --> 0:20:16.159 was something that kids could remember and depressed. Yeah, so 0:20:16.280 --> 0:20:19.960 I feel like, yeah, sorry, Like if people don't fuck 0:20:20.000 --> 0:20:23.720 as much because they're like I don't have healthcare and 0:20:24.119 --> 0:20:27.800 I am housing and secure, good news been the world 0:20:27.840 --> 0:20:30.720 that you've enthusiastically tried to build has made people so 0:20:30.880 --> 0:20:35.679 miserable that they're fucking less. Yeah. Yeah, that's a pretty 0:20:35.720 --> 0:20:39.920 simple explanation. And my confirmation for that is like vacation syndrome. 0:20:40.080 --> 0:20:42.240 You know, when you go on vacation. Suddenly you're like, 0:20:42.240 --> 0:20:44.480 oh my god, I'm like so fun and interesting and 0:20:44.560 --> 0:20:47.160 I do cool ship and I funk all the time here, 0:20:47.400 --> 0:20:49.520 and then you're like, oh, what's different? Oh? Is that 0:20:49.600 --> 0:20:54.240 that I'm feel not shackled to the capitalist, fucking like 0:20:54.480 --> 0:20:58.480 chains of my work week and the ways in which 0:20:58.840 --> 0:21:01.760 the place I live has ailed me? Oh? Oh that 0:21:01.920 --> 0:21:05.200 must be it. Okay, that's what makes you horny? Great? 0:21:06.359 --> 0:21:10.080 You know what makes me horny, Sophia, goods and services, 0:21:10.280 --> 0:21:13.920 specifically the products and services that support this podcast. Nothing 0:21:14.000 --> 0:21:17.200 else gets me hard. But what is it? Is it? 0:21:17.280 --> 0:21:21.320 Exon mobile today, Sophie, I certainly hope not. Ah, Just 0:21:22.240 --> 0:21:24.960 if you want, if you want to get combination gun 0:21:25.160 --> 0:21:28.200 fentin al store. Well, now that that would get me 0:21:28.320 --> 0:21:31.439 pretty hard. Well, let's keep our fingers crossed. Speaking Robert's 0:21:31.520 --> 0:21:34.600 language there, I mean, I do prefer to lauded, but 0:21:35.080 --> 0:21:46.160 either way product Ah, we're back and we're talking about 0:21:46.240 --> 0:21:49.320 Ben Shapiro's book on sex. So this first little bit 0:21:49.440 --> 0:21:52.639 ends with the paragraph the porn generation now inhabits a 0:21:52.680 --> 0:21:56.480 world where empowered means sex with no strings attached. The 0:21:56.600 --> 0:22:00.480 old faith and traditional morality was too bourgeoisie, archaic, sexist, 0:22:00.520 --> 0:22:02.720 and closed minded for this brave new world. Our new 0:22:02.800 --> 0:22:06.240 God is tolerance of all behavior. Our new credo live 0:22:06.320 --> 0:22:10.320 and let live imagine thinking like live and let live 0:22:10.680 --> 0:22:14.520 is a bad yeah, or it is like negative and 0:22:14.600 --> 0:22:18.080 again just he's comprehensively wrong about every single factual claim 0:22:18.119 --> 0:22:21.119 he makes. Um like the Beatles wrote a literal fucking 0:22:21.280 --> 0:22:24.520 jam about it years ago, a real banger of a song. 0:22:25.160 --> 0:22:27.760 You really think that that ship is new? And also 0:22:27.840 --> 0:22:31.160 he's like, you know what sucks freedom, the exact freedom 0:22:31.320 --> 0:22:35.160 that I think, Wait a minute, I've talked myself into 0:22:35.280 --> 0:22:38.480 a corner. I guess I love freedom, but I also 0:22:38.600 --> 0:22:41.720 hate it. So the next chapter or not chapter section 0:22:41.760 --> 0:22:44.359 of the book starts with as children, members of the 0:22:44.400 --> 0:22:48.760 porn generation are presented with morally subversive sexual education programs 0:22:48.800 --> 0:22:51.960 that increasingly younger ages. Nine year olds are lectured about 0:22:52.000 --> 0:22:54.320 condom the use, twelve year olds are pushed to make 0:22:54.359 --> 0:22:57.920 decisions about their sexual orientation. Fifteen year olds are expected 0:22:57.920 --> 0:23:01.560 to have said goodbye to virginity. And again, I guess 0:23:01.600 --> 0:23:03.800 it is it is probably true that kids are getting 0:23:04.000 --> 0:23:06.400 better sex, said younger. Maybe that's part of why they're 0:23:06.440 --> 0:23:11.560 having less casual sex, is they're getting more sex, said 0:23:11.560 --> 0:23:14.080 and learning about std S. I don't know. I doubt 0:23:14.080 --> 0:23:15.960 it has an impact on that, but whatever the case, 0:23:16.040 --> 0:23:19.240 it's certainly not making them funck more, because as is stated, 0:23:19.320 --> 0:23:22.639 they're fucking less. I mean, and also, like, I just 0:23:22.800 --> 0:23:24.920 have to be honest that I do remember when I 0:23:25.000 --> 0:23:28.000 turned twelve that somebody did come up to me and 0:23:28.080 --> 0:23:30.399 put a gun to my head and asked me to choose, 0:23:30.760 --> 0:23:34.639 uh my sexual orientation. And I panicked, you know, so 0:23:34.760 --> 0:23:38.000 I said, by and you know, now I'm obligated to 0:23:38.320 --> 0:23:41.359 like both men and women and you know, and just 0:23:41.600 --> 0:23:46.240 all all gender spectrums. Because they put that gun to 0:23:46.320 --> 0:23:48.720 my head, they made me decide at twelve they pushed me. 0:23:49.800 --> 0:23:51.800 And and that's that's how it is for all of 0:23:51.920 --> 0:23:55.280 us who are bisexual. I was forced, at gunpoint at 0:23:55.320 --> 0:23:58.000 age twelve to watch mos def and the Hitchhiker's Guide 0:23:58.040 --> 0:24:03.600 movie and and and violently told to be aroused by it. 0:24:03.760 --> 0:24:09.480 And there's there's just you know, it did incalculable damage. Yes, yes, yes, 0:24:10.080 --> 0:24:13.760 um getting wet too, wild things, I would have to say, 0:24:15.080 --> 0:24:18.800 as they're getting wet in the pool. Yeah yeah, I 0:24:19.119 --> 0:24:23.760 that's traumatic because I literally was being you know, tied 0:24:23.840 --> 0:24:26.879 to a chair and forced to watch that and masterbait 0:24:27.040 --> 0:24:31.119 and I I as a result of this childhood trauma, 0:24:31.280 --> 0:24:34.440 I can't watch Pedro Pascal in a movie without needing 0:24:34.480 --> 0:24:41.160 to turn the air conditioning on. So specific I am 0:24:41.359 --> 0:24:45.520 with you. I am in this. Literally, who isn't You 0:24:45.600 --> 0:24:50.560 don't even have to be by to be into Pedro Pascal? Okay? 0:24:51.640 --> 0:24:55.199 So um, all right, so been here, Okay, here's been 0:24:55.280 --> 0:24:58.720 dropping a fact. I'm interested in this? So um? Oh 0:24:58.840 --> 0:25:03.399 actually okay. And college drug use, alcohol use, and sexual experimentation, 0:25:03.520 --> 0:25:06.040 or the norm, as one Harvard girl told me, we're 0:25:06.119 --> 0:25:08.639 jaded and it's fun fun to this girl meant trips 0:25:08.680 --> 0:25:12.280 to Amsterdam to smoke different types of marijuana. To others, 0:25:12.400 --> 0:25:18.320 fun means binge drinking or random sex. This fucking nerd 0:25:20.880 --> 0:25:26.200 ever invited you to a fucking party does not mean 0:25:26.359 --> 0:25:30.040 you have to be such a sour little dick about everything. 0:25:30.320 --> 0:25:33.000 And also, let's let's be frank here. If you've ever 0:25:33.160 --> 0:25:36.960 been to California where Ben lives, Amsterdam wheat is weak ship. 0:25:37.400 --> 0:25:40.720 It is, it just is. It's way worse than fucking 0:25:40.760 --> 0:25:42.919