SmoothSmooth
Master Don Juan
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BS, complete BS.If there ever was a "golden era", I never got to experience it. I entered the mating environment in the late 1990s as a teen. I detailed 1997-2003 (ages 14-20) earlier in this thread.
Since my 18th birthday, 9/11, The Great Recession, and COVID have happened. That's a lot to happen between ages 18-late 30s. At least 9/11 and The Great Recession didn't affect the general social atmosphere as much as COVID. Think about 2008-09. Even if you had employment and/or money issues then, you could still at least go to a bar or a grocery store without a mask on. That was an advantage. I want to steer the conversation away from macro level topics, but those macro level topics can affect the mating environment and can affect one's experience of the mating environment. I graduated from grad school in the 2007-08 school year, just as the worst recession since the Great Depression was going on. That affected my employment getting outcomes, which affected my SMV and experience of the sexual marketplace. For someone that had a job on January 1, 2008 and didn't face unemployment at all from 2008-2012, their experience of the sexual marketplace of that era would differ from mine.
I would say that the mating environment is worse now than it was in 2001 when I finished high school. I don't think the late 1990s/early 2000s was any great time overall. It's possible me for personally to look back on 2001-2006 with some fondness. I miss fewer women wearing earbuds in the gym. Swipe apps came into the equation in 2012, but dating websites were a thing in the 2000s. In the 2000s, women's inboxes on PlentyofFish and OkCupid were getting flooded. It wasn't unusual in 2009 for a woman to receive hundreds of messages in a week on those sites. That was essentially the precursor to what happened on swipe apps.
The smartphone invention made the mating environment worse in so many ways. The worst thing it did was make people not present in the moment. Women outdoors on walking/hiking paths have the smartphone and earbuds in. Women walking the streets even without earbuds are often immersed in their phones. Many times in the 2010s and beyond, there have been women in bars immersed in their smartphones. This makes approaches more difficult. That's not complaining, that is factual.
Girls are wearing earbuds? So are guys. Girls are on the their phones in the club? So is the 10/10 high value man. Both genders are enjoying the benefits of mobile technology. What’s your point? There is no ‘sexual marketplace’ in reality, there is just people. That concept only exists on the internet; which is also not a real place.
The same amount of girls are getting a man’s name tatt’d on their ass in 2021 as 2001 irregardless of technological changes.
Most of my friends don’t any have difficulty finding girlfriends.
I’m honestly done with this forum.