r/dating_advice • u/Frosty1397 • 3m ago
I thought becoming an adult... involved a lot more sex. Was i wrong?
This is gonna sound a bit funny but when i was a kid (and hit puberty), i remember looking at adults in public and seeing so many people walking about: men, women, tall, short, attractive, not so attractive, and thinking to myself..
"Wow they all must be having so much sex, I can't wait to become an adult!"
I honestly thought becoming an adult would involve just a bit more work (vs being in school), but a LOT more sex. Like sex was just a regular part of an adult's daily routine or something.
Then i became an adult. And the reality (after a decade+) is that it's the exact opposite. Being an adult involves a LOT more work, yet much less sex than i imagined.
I see people giving others advice: Go hit the gym! Go join a club! Go to bars! Work on yourself and everything will work out! We have to dress well, make X amount of money, be the correct age/maturity, be in the right place, learn "game"/seduction techniques, spend $15/drink at bars, etc.
I'm out here participating in bouldering, skiing for years, have an active photography hobby, traveled to 20+ countries, have a wide friend group in multiple continents. Yet if all just feels so.. exhausting.
I even ask my friends (some of whom are REALLY attractive) how often they're getting regular sex, and i swear almost every one of them these days are basically going months also without it.
And to be clear, I'm not sex obsessed. But when you're starved for physical intimacy, it just drains the energy from everything else that you do, you know what i mean? I've been in 2 longterm relationships, so it's not like I've gotten zero either.
I feel like there naturally should've been a place in society where people could go find like-minded people and say to each other in an honest way: "Hey, sex feels great. Let's agree to do it safely". I believe the closest we came to that was Tinder, but as with most things, it got ruined by capitalism.
It's pretty grim out there ngl