Sextinction Quotes

“As a larger suggestion for everyone, text conversations may be the gold standard for communicating, but they aren’t a replacement for the real thing. Human beings, as a species, need face-to-face interaction, to gaze into one another’s eyes, and to hear each other’s voices. Nothing can replace our hardwired need for community and interpersonal closeness. We are not meant to be hiding behind screens.”
― Debra Soh, Sextinction: The Decline of Sex and the Future of Intimacy

“One in five American college students is using antidepressants. Like hormonal contraception’s effects on women’s sex drive, antidepressants can lower libido and inhibit orgasm.”
― Debra Soh, Sextinction: The Decline of Sex and the Future of Intimacy

“The Pill is also associated with mood disorders, including depression and anxiety,41 and experiencing an impaired response to stress and fear.”
― Debra Soh, Sextinction: The Decline of Sex and the Future of Intimacy

“The Pill also has the power to alter women’s mating psychology and possibly influence evolved preferences that are evolutionarily adaptive. Women on the Pill have been shown to prefer male partners who are less masculine32 and with whom they may be less genetically compatible.33”
― Debra Soh, Sextinction: The Decline of Sex and the Future of Intimacy

“Although the miracle of human life could result from this online transaction, the corresponding virtual shopping experience left much to be desired. This particular website was clunky and difficult to navigate.”
― Debra Soh, Sextinction: The Decline of Sex and the Future of Intimacy

“reproductive technologies. The role of an opposite-sex parent isn’t negligible. Fatherlessness is associated with higher rates of psychological issues, substance use, and incarceration.16 As mentioned in previous chapters, growing up without a dad hinders boys’ success in life and leaves girls vulnerable to sexual attention-seeking in adulthood.”
― Debra Soh, Sextinction: The Decline of Sex and the Future of Intimacy

“The most important concern, however, should rest on the well-being of the children. Ideally, studies evaluating these outcomes would be impartial and devoid of politics. But that is not the world we live in.”
― Debra Soh, Sextinction: The Decline of Sex and the Future of Intimacy

“Truthfully, being a stay-at-home mother isn’t as valued or respected by our society. Our society values money, status, and autonomy, along with achievements that are flashy and photograph well on social media. These are things that a woman is required to, for the most part, forfeit upon becoming a mother. Parenting requires sacrifices from men, too, but not in the same way that it does for women.”
― Debra Soh, Sextinction: The Decline of Sex and the Future of Intimacy

“The fact that so many academics are content with legitimizing pedophilia as a sexual identity is indefensible.”
― Debra Soh, Sextinction: The Decline of Sex and the Future of Intimacy

“I refuse to use the term MAPs because it is an ideologically motivated word. Like all leftist speak, changing language is a successful way to suppress dissent and obfuscate reality.”
― Debra Soh, Sextinction: The Decline of Sex and the Future of Intimacy

“The view that nonoffending pedophiles deserve understanding is one I once foolishly supported as a result of my time in academia. It is something that I now deeply regret.”
― Debra Soh, Sextinction: The Decline of Sex and the Future of Intimacy

“Others have used innocent-sounding claims of inclusion and tolerance to include the letter P in the LGBT+ initialism, treating pedophilia as though it were a sexual orientation no different from being straight or gay because, again, pedophilic individuals were “born that way.”
― Debra Soh, Sextinction: The Decline of Sex and the Future of Intimacy

“The goal of using a passive, fuzzy descriptor like MAPs is to lessen the stigma associated with the precise clinical term pedophile and to improve inclusivity for pedophiles, if you can believe it.”
― Debra Soh, Sextinction: The Decline of Sex and the Future of Intimacy

“Of all things to receive a glossy, progressive rebranding, pedophilia would have been at the bottom of my list. Pedophiles now call themselves MAPs, or “minor-attracted people,” an innocuous-sounding term that originated in the late 1990s on an online forum catering to men who are in favor of adult-child sex.”
― Debra Soh, Sextinction: The Decline of Sex and the Future of Intimacy

“Men also typically have a higher sex drive than women, and for women, sex and the enjoyment of it are contextual. Sex, for a woman, has more to do with how she feels about her partner and whether she feels safe with him.”
― Debra Soh, Sextinction: The Decline of Sex and the Future of Intimacy

“As for men, I’ll be blunt—if you are financially successful, it won’t matter what you look like. You could resemble a miniature ogre and women would still be throwing themselves at you.”
― Debra Soh, Sextinction: The Decline of Sex and the Future of Intimacy

“On the dating site Bumble, a majority of female users set their search preferences to exclude men who aren’t at least six feet tall, even though the national average is five feet nine.62”
― Debra Soh, Sextinction: The Decline of Sex and the Future of Intimacy

“While only 14.5 percent of American men are six feet or taller, among CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, more than half are.60 Men who are six feet tall are predicted to earn $166,000 more over the span of a thirty-year career than if they were five feet five.61”
― Debra Soh, Sextinction: The Decline of Sex and the Future of Intimacy

“When beautification filters arrived on the scene in 2015, they were one of the earliest and easiest adoptions of artificial intelligence. They proved a magic bullet. Anyone could radically reinvent the way they looked without previous knowledge of photo-editing software. All it took was a few quick taps on a screen.”
― Debra Soh, Sextinction: The Decline of Sex and the Future of Intimacy

“we are biologically driven to want to be as physically attractive as possible.”
― Debra Soh, Sextinction: The Decline of Sex and the Future of Intimacy

“Many cultural critics complain that society cares only about women’s aging and not men’s. This isn’t due to sexism but because the things women look for in a man (including his financial resources) tend to increase over time, while the things men look for in a woman (youth and fertility) unfortunately decrease.”
― Debra Soh, Sextinction: The Decline of Sex and the Future of Intimacy

“It’s hypocritical to value women for their loyalty and sexual chastity if male promiscuity is celebrated and encouraged.”
― Debra Soh, Sextinction: The Decline of Sex and the Future of Intimacy

“Father absenteeism is associated with daughters defaulting to a short-term sexual strategy, as in the case of prostitution.”
― Debra Soh, Sextinction: The Decline of Sex and the Future of Intimacy

“A healthy relationship with one’s father prevents earlier initiation of sexual activity,27 sexual promiscuity, risky sexual behavior, and tolerance for abuse or violence.”
― Debra Soh, Sextinction: The Decline of Sex and the Future of Intimacy

“Being raised without the stability of a two-parent home can be highly detrimental to children, girls in particular, with regard to their future decision-making around sex and relationships.”
― Debra Soh, Sextinction: The Decline of Sex and the Future of Intimacy

“Genuine marriages and relationships are built on commitment and love, as opposed to strictly monetary gain and what one person can do for the other.”
― Debra Soh, Sextinction: The Decline of Sex and the Future of Intimacy

“The argument that selling sex is empowering is not only logically deficient but also contradictory to the feminist claim that women deserve to be valued for more than their bodies.”
― Debra Soh, Sextinction: The Decline of Sex and the Future of Intimacy

“Liberal feminism is full of bizarre contradictions, such as that it is patriarchal for a man to pay for your dinner but not when he pays for your nudes.”
― Debra Soh, Sextinction: The Decline of Sex and the Future of Intimacy

“Women prefer sexual content in the written form of erotica, whereas men prefer sexual content that is visual.”
― Debra Soh, Sextinction: The Decline of Sex and the Future of Intimacy

“The study found that men experienced more distress when imagining a partner’s sexual infidelity, while women experienced more distress as the result of imagining a partner’s emotional infidelity. These findings make sense evolutionarily because if a man is cuckolded, he will end up investing precious resources into the survival of offspring who belong to a male rival. (Prior to technological advances like DNA testing, women’s internal fertilization made it challenging for a man to ascertain whether a child was his own.) For women, if a partner falls in love with someone else, this signals the loss of her mate’s commitment as well as resources for her and her children.”
― Debra Soh, Sextinction: The Decline of Sex and the Future of Intimacy