• kyle@lemm.ee
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      Yeah I went down a rabbit hole (heh) trying to see if it was true.

      And no, turns out it’s just a bunch of pesticides and more recently (since the mid 90s) they apparently infect them on purpose with something that destroys their liver.

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      The sexy fakes is from mosquitos. And they’re not sexy fakes, they’re just like the other male mozzies but sterile

      Australia has only used biological control. The stuffed rabbit host of a childrens’ tv shows was named Mixie for one of the biological controls: mixomatosis - a rabbit virus used in the past.

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      Given the existence of products like “real doll”, there’s some merit to it happening to humans.

      I don’t know enough about any of it since I’m in a relationship with someone who has a pulse, and I like it that way.

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        It’s a product aimed at people that can’t get laid otherwise, and from what I hear it’s usually a one-time thing because people soon realize it’s as good as thrusting a plank.

        Suggesting that it’s real purpose is to control birth rate is just fucking ridiculous, nobody will ever ditch their woman because they figured that an unmoving full-sized fake vagina is better at sex than her.

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          Maybe, but also, relationships take a lot of time and effort and sometimes your significant other is just crazy and you have to break it off.

          It seems like getting a real-enough experience with a “real doll” and then not having to deal with another person or their drama, may appeal to some.

          Not me, I’ve been in a long term relationship for going on 10 years now. I can just take my bias out of the discussion and consider other perspectives.

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            You do remember that you can also have sex without being in a relationship, don’t you?

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              You can, but often that comes with more drama than it’s worth, and/or, isn’t consistent in terms of being able to have someone to be intimate with.

              There are exceptions here, but they’re relatively uncommon.

              Not saying that people in relationships can be intimate with their partner whenever they want, but I am saying you have more opportunities to be intimate, as long as both people are willing to do so at the same time.

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    Except they don’t want human population to decrease. They need more and more people at the bottom of the global ponzi scheme to prop it up.

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    I feel like an old man cause anime girls look weird to me. I see this stuff, the obviously hyper sexualized cartoon girls, and I’m always like “you guys know about pornhub, right? Pictures of real women, videos, millions of them are a click away!” So like, wtf is up with the cartoon fetish? I’m not shaming it, I just don’t get it.

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      Same here (am old man) but in the context of this post one can make the argument that pornography in general is reducing the population. Not necessarily a bad thing.

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      So like, wtf is up with the cartoon fetish?

      Sexual appetites are informed by the images of people you familiarize yourself with. Not usual for people to seek out partners who remind them of old friends or family members, because that’s the image they’ve imprinted on as attractive.

      If you surround yourself with images of japanese cartoons (particularly horny ones, particularly when you’re young and impressionable and you’d fuck a fire hydrant on a hot day) its not going to be hard to fixate on cartoons fucking.

      If you surround yourself with booze and people your own age who are equally horny, you likely won’t have that temptation.

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    Your average 4channer didn’t need anime girls to stop them having sex.

    Their hygiene and misogyny did most of the heavy lifting there.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      Lots of people pass through phases of maturity, from jerking it to weird cartoons when puberty hits to hanging out in the bar till last call after your second divorce.

      You’re going to be distressed to discover how many people on 4chan are fucking. Horniness isn’t reserved for straight white weebs and there are plenty of women who are prone to making bad decisions, especially as they get older and the pool of eligible bachelors shrinks.

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        It’s true, there are actually people who seek out those kinds of people. Story time!

        My ex had this thing, maybe a fetish, about being desirable to…social outcasts? I’m having trouble finding an inoffensive term for them. Mix well 1 kg of gamer guys and 0.5 liters of unwashed weeaboo, add a dash of Axe body spray, and place in a fedora overnight. Sprinkle liberally with crinkly neck hair (or are they pubes?) before serving raw.

        Anyhow, she enjoyed helping these guys lose their virginity. She was fairly attractive, an objective 6-7/10, but dressed well and was very charming. She told me about one guy she met through an anime club in college. When they tried to have sex the first time, he was flaccid and was too embarrassed to verbalize why. Apparently he turned on his computer and queued up some hentai, which he silently watched until he could achieve an erection. They had sex multiple times and each required a hot hentai injection.

        I didn’t find out about any of this until we’d been together for over two years. I initially had no issue with it beyond her having hidden it from me. Then she wanted to resume the behavior in an open relationship, immediately or she was leaving. I became promptly single.

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    Why scary? Wouldn’t it be good if the human population didn’t increase more?

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        Fertility rates are on the decrease everywhere.This doesn’t mean that population is decreasing, population increases as long as the fertility rate is superior to 1 2.1, which is still the case in a large portion of the world, but I think humanity on a global scale is expected to go beneath that treshold around 2050-2060.

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    That’s a fair point until you realize that humans are a lot smarter than rabbits. (Supposedly)

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      The average human maybe.

      But there is a significant overlap between the smartest rabbit and the dumbest humans.

      Or was that with bears?