Comment by bufferoverflow

How is this your #1 problem? We have so much serious issues and you are hung up on women having sex? Let them fuck how much they want. Nobody stopped men from fucking and if it works, doesn't that indicate a different problem?

There is more to puritanical attitudes than sex. It generally means anti-pleasure.

One thing the real puritans are against that people have turned against very strongly is alcohol. It never stopped being a problem in the US, of course, but there are far more preachy teetotalers in the UK than there used to be, and government policy is very anti too.

Then there is the push for achievement and the acquisition of wealth. You are supposed to dedicate your life to the cause of high achievement, rather than stop to enjoy it.

Sex acts online actually fit in with all this as they are safe and controlled alternative to enjoying sex in real life.

The amount of people having sex has dropped quite a bit in the last decade.

People get into sex work for money - they can’t afford rent.

Girls are having sex with 1000 guys a day and some people clearly still aren't getting any... Inequality in theUUK is even worse than I thought :(

puritanism is often linked to a backlash against this type of thing.

Weimar berlin was very open about this stuff too and was followed by a puritanical backlash. The world feels like it is going through something very similar.

These are… specific examples. Something on your mind? Puritanical cultures do have an association with being sex-negative lack of a better term because purity culture sounds circular. But they're far from the only aspect of culture that can embody puritan thinking.

They've been a naughty girls, they let their knickers down!