Why is it girls have an easier time getting dates than guys?

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Sly - you are free to download and look at the report. I went straight for the data - I haven't looked at the methodology yet, but I would assume the CDC know their way around statistics. I'm looking at page 18.

It says they interviewed some 62,000 males between the ages of 15 and 44. Of these, some 10,000 were aged 40-44. Of those in that age bracket, 1.2% had "never had sexual contact with opposite sex".

Understand, this in no way means the others are having (or have had) 'tons of sex'.

I've no idea what the CDC is, but never ever, ever, ever, ever, ever trust the Government Census.

You always know when you've received the latest Census, because it makes a loud crash when it hits the floor. In my particular case the Royal Postal Officer actually has to give it to me personally because it won't fit through the letterbox.

A lot of hassle for something I never have and never will fill out, and I'm not the only one. Of all the people I know, I can personally vouch for 12200-12250 people that don't bother with the Census, sadly only about 18% of them recycle it, the rest either bin it or give it to their children to draw on. Though I do know of a few hundred that do bother with it, none of them are honest about what they write, none of them. This ranges from small embellishments and white lies, to complete and utter fiction riddled with blatant lies.

I don't know how it is where you're from, but unless filling out the Census is mandatory by law, is treated as a serious crime in which people who fail to turn it in are punished, and the process is heavily regulated by a legion of officiaries that run routine investigations to prove that the information given is in fact correct, then you cannot trust the census.

Actually, just talking to women isn't hard.

However, saying things that are likely to get them interested in getting to know you is extremely difficult, and you have my sympathy, for what it's worth.

Weirdly, in social situations when I am being perceived as male, the less interested I act, the more certain women hit on me. Seriously, I just want them to stop bothering me, and try to show it with my facial expressions and body language, but the more I try to ignore them, the more they persist. I've heard similar stories from FTM transgendered people, and male-appearing genderqueer women. Maybe acting cool and aloof might help.....?

You say that like it's a bad thing.

I consider it somewhere between not cool and a dick move.

Really, "just look pretty"? I'll remember that. I just need to sit here and look pretty and the world will be mine.

Maybe part of the issue getting dates is lack of recognition and empathy for issues and struggles others (e.g. females) face.

44 year olds were Born in the 70's. That means prime teen years during the 80's (AIDS came out). That was hardly a sexually liberated free for all.

But let's say it's wrong The CDC made it up for whatever reason. The number is really say..20% of 40year old males are virgins. In that case, being one doesn't make one a 'loser', it makes them..pretty normal. Which means there's nothing to be ashamed of and nothing inherently wrong with anyone who is, nor does it destine them to be single or miserable forever. It just means that at the time of being polled, those people had not yet had sex.

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I was born in 1961. It was very much a "free-for-all" until about 1983 or so.

I first heard of AIDS about 1981. It wasn't called AIDS then; I forgot what they called it.

I didn't hear the term Internet until about 1994. Before then, it was called the "Information Super Highway."

I think it was something like "theterrifyingdiseasethat'sgoingtokillusalldon'tgonearsomeonewhoevenpossiblyhasitandavoidtoiletseatsitis"

Yeah...something like that LOL

It was called AIDS from the very beginning. It was actually a place holder name for an unknown observation that certain high risk groups had rare lymph nodes tumors and a low CD4 count for then, unknown reasons. The name obviously stayed.

That's probably true---but the newscasters didn't know about that, apparently.

Yeah, i remember it having some reference name before aids stuck.

It used to be called GRID for Gay Related Immune Deficiency you know because back then a lot of people and especially the media tended to be insensitive towards homosexuals. Once they realized that it wasn't restricted to homosexuals they started calling it AIDS.

the way it seems, is that women for the most part just need to know how to screen a guy

Many Christian sources continue to insist on listing homosexuality as a risk factor for AIDS.