If you read between the lines here, you can see that millenials only care about getting laid. The basis of relationships, intimacy, is completely dismissed as a waste of time.
Disagree. It looks like this article only interviewed women in New York City. Add to that the fact that they are women using online dating sites and that means they are the most stuck-up, pickiest women in the world. As they say in the article, they don’t want to waste 5 minutes of their life with a guy who isn’t their perfect ideal mate. Most women on online dating sites think they’re God’s gift to men and are looking only for an ideal of perfection that does not exist and would not want to be with them if it did.
If you read between the lines here, you can see that millenials only care about getting laid. The basis of relationships, intimacy, is completely dismissed as a waste of time.
While it may be nice to “get laid”, there’s a lot more to life, and a relationship with someone, than just that.
But excellent point you make. Today’s millennials have grown up in a culture in which having sex outside marriage is considered ok, with any number of partners, any sex of your partners.
And maybe the millennials don’t see the forest for the trees in this area of life. I have to admit that I absolutely love sex, however, there is so much more than that if you get seriously involved with someone. Or I should say, the quality and richness of your relationship depends on much more than sexual attraction.
Exactly what you said. And with 99% of movies today that’s the main plot — hooking up with no responsibility and no consequences. After all how popular were the sitcoms, “Friends”, “Seinfeld”, and who know what more recently. All twenty-somethings who are single and engage in regular hook-ups, or the hunt for a hook-up.
Oh, NO ONE ELSE before millennials ever cared about getting laid, right? I think it was almost worse before. Pedophilia wasn’t a thing to worry about (meaning it happened but no one seemed to care), nor was AIDS.
Today, millennials seem to meet in one of two ways. They have a core group of friends of both genders who “hang out.” Often the deepest core of this group doesn’t interdate. But the new friends of friends who join can become couples.
Or they meet online playing games in groups, and start chatting.
They have very little money, they are students or working low income jobs, so they tend to get ethnic or fast foods. But they also like to do fun things. They will still take the date to concerts (and even pay for the one who can’t afford it, boy or girl) and amusement parks etc. They can get more food that way and spend elsewhere the $100 a good restaurant will cost them.