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Frequency of sex is declining in Finland since the 2000s, according to an ongoing 50 year study. The sharpest decline has been shown for 30-40 year olds who are down to once a week as the average. Sexperts downplay the importance of the findings. The results are based on the FINSEX research project that has tracked the subject for decades.
How is the situation in your country?
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(Score: 2) by Bot on Saturday March 05 2016, @07:59AM
Is that the expert in one field chooses to dismiss information relevant to his work that can land him/her/it to front page news as random fluctuations.
Possibly, their theories about sexual liberation and stuff have crumbled down.
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(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 05 2016, @08:24AM
I wouldn't worry about it. I'm sure there will still be plenty of sex, I just have it on good authority that the general plan in Europe as a whole is to just outsource it to the immigrants.
Kind of hard to feel sorry for them though. I can't shed a tear for the last Koalas who won't fuck to save their own species. Likewise, I can't shed a tear for the euro-femme men who won't fuck their own women, particularly when they're admittedly much hotter than ours.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by bitstream on Saturday March 05 2016, @09:46AM
Because unless you fulfill their long checklist you won't be permitted to have sex? and being too socially and legally risky for males?
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 05 2016, @08:21AM
This is the typical effect of socialist ideology... wait, what were we talking about? Let me start over.... This is typical of the success of abstinence only sex education. Yeah, that.
(Score: 5, Informative) by Rosco P. Coltrane on Saturday March 05 2016, @08:28AM
Why, of course: after all, Finnish has no sex and no future [blogspot.be].
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 05 2016, @10:18PM
But they have smart hamsters [attendly.com] (or at least, they aren't unbelievably stupid).
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 05 2016, @08:31AM
it means the average Finn is getting more than me...
(Score: 4, Funny) by legont on Saturday March 05 2016, @09:01AM
the most sexually active groups include 20-year old women and 50-year old men, both of whom have sex on average one and a half times a week
Hmm... perhaps I like Finland even more.
"Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding" - John Kenneth Galbraith.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 05 2016, @09:33AM
Correlation is not necessarily causation.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Saturday March 05 2016, @03:41PM
AC is missing the point that we're hoping they imply "together" not just some random gender group selections.
Sure, I'll move to Finland if they issue me a 20 yr old GF. My wife would likely be offended but if 50 = 2 * 25 maybe I can get two 25 yr old GFs.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 06 2016, @12:19AM
My 1st thought was "Rest in peace".
At a minimum, you're gonna have to double up on the Geritol. 8-)
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I saw a TeeVee newsmagazine piece a bunch of years back on a particular social activity in Finland.
It seems that Finns are quite taken with the Tango.
They showed clips of Finns dancing this very passionate dance.
They looked like they were assembling furniture.
ISTM that what's missing more than sex is romance.
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by JoeMerchant on Saturday March 05 2016, @12:49PM
I assume that this is self-reported, not independently verified. As such, I think it says more about attitudes towards openly sharing how often you have sex than the actual act.
Україна досі не є частиною Росії Слава Україні🌻 https://news.stanford.edu/2023/02/17/will-russia-ukraine-war-end
(Score: 2) by VLM on Saturday March 05 2016, @03:48PM
Maybe they asked the migrants or checked the censored police rape reports.
(Score: 4, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 05 2016, @09:17AM
I know that I get turned off when my partner yells, "Hurry up and Finnish!"
(Score: 1) by CaTfiSh on Saturday March 05 2016, @09:34AM
I hope this is wrong, else they are finnished.
(Score: 2) by mendax on Saturday March 05 2016, @01:05PM
The only pussy a man really needs is a real one [youtube.com]. I have one who is more faithful to me than my ex-wife. Besides, sex is overrated; so the Finns have got it right.
It's really quite a simple choice: Life, Death, or Los Angeles.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday March 05 2016, @04:27PM
No way, it's not overrated. All of the disgusting smells, juices, and noises...and then everything just -- just -- explodes, man!
There's a problem with Europe -- men have been rendered effeminate and impotent from years of Jewish social marxist conditioning. This is why Europe is importing hordes of Arab savages -- because it is the order of things. Women want real men who don't give a fuck about political correctness and other bullshit. Merkel knows this, in fact the NSA is blackmailing her with photos of her mating with famed backyard street-fighter Kimbo Slice. [wikipedia.org]
What should be done is to import White American males over the age of 30 to Europe. We have testosterone and chest hair and insatiable appetites for sex with hot Finngolian Downs-syndrome-looking babes. We will make Europe great again!
p.s. fuck the Jews and Arab scum
(Score: 3, Touché) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday March 05 2016, @07:27PM
Why isn't there a -1 "Tries too hard" mod? Normally I think you're hilarious but this was...kind of embarrassing to watch.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 06 2016, @12:18AM
All females are cunts, regardless of age, race, looks, etc.
They are food, prey. If we do not eat of them, we die. It is that
simple. If we do not degrade them, we experience no desire. No
desire, and no seed is passed on. And the human race dies.
Why do we hunt the cunt? To propagate the species. When we
consider the cunt "human" and worthy of our sympathy or, worse yet,
our empathy, we starve. The natural order is thrown into chaos, and
entropy in the form of extinction sets in.
The cunt is biologically predetermined to submit to her role
as prey, just as any other quarry in the animal kingdom is born
following a similar course. We do not have "victim support groups"
for antelopes in the wild, or barnyard mice being hunted by cats - why
do we have them for cunts? Because we allowed it. We allowed
ourselves to be softened because we actually thought we could fuck
more cunts if we allowed them more freedom.
All we did, however, was turn the natural order on its ear.
Once cunts began pursuing their own emotional and sexual "needs" we
lost the predatory advantage. "Rules" entered into a dynamic that was
previously governed solely by instinct. What if the cheetah had to
follow certain rules while hunting? What if the jaguar had to ensure
its prey a comfortable, painless death? The animal kingdom would be
thrown into chaos.
This is exactly what we did, however, and what we continue to
do now. Do the human race a favor. Go home to your wife and
girlfriend and rape the hell out of her .. repeatedly. Let her know
what you demand from her all the time. After some blubbering and
bawling, she'll acclimate quite nicely to her new proper position.
Later, after you choke fuck her until the cum pours out of her ears,
she'll thank you as she gargles on your seed.
Disclaimer: cut and paste from https://groups.google.com/forum/#!original/alt.tasteless/nIgRQWguqRs/Tyk1u3-NqOIJ [google.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 05 2016, @01:44PM
For the Fins. Poor guys.
(Score: 1) by itn on Saturday March 05 2016, @02:24PM
All jokes aside, aging population is a real problem in Finland, as it is all around Europe. http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/Population_structure_and_ageing [europa.eu].
Finland's age pyramid [tilastokoulu.stat.fi] from 1900 to 2060. You can understand why this is a real issue that we have a lot of people not in the the workforce AND needing care. Finland is not alone in this regard, but I believe that our population is "aging most rapidly" in the European Union.
After the second World War, in 1946-1950 Finns had plenty of kids. Our "baby boomers" are said to be born in 1946-1950 which is somewhat stricter definition than with the US baby boomers. Baby boom coupled with our astonishingly good education system helped our country advance very fast from the agricultural society we were before and after WW2. But now those kids are retired, in need of care and our age pyramid is getting top-heavy very rapidly.
The aging of our population has been in the talks in economy and politics for a long time. It's not new nor surprising. But with the influx of refugees and immigrants starting last year, our age pyramid is partially back in the daily conversation. The refugees and immigrants are mostly young males, and some say it's beneficial for Finland to have them because they would enter our workforce and help offset our retiring workers and low birth rates.
Also, when drawing comparisons, bear in mind that Finland currently has a population of just under 5,5 million people. The US population annual growth is about 50% or our total population.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by VLM on Saturday March 05 2016, @03:47PM
I'll pay taxes to fund my grandma or mom in their retirement. Fund some foreigner, eh not so interested. Things may not work out so well for the Finns.
Also Finland without the Finns is just "North Syria". I'm not sure intentional demographic suicide is the ideal evolutionary strategy....
(Score: 1) by bitstream on Sunday March 06 2016, @04:02AM
It's more or less a requirement to have a good education in industrialized countries. And to get a stable economy a permanent job position is also a requirement. To deviate from this is risky economically. So if there's is a genuine interest in keep a sustainable population demographics. The government would need to guarantee the economy and healthcare for young couples that make children. Perhaps something akin to "you get what you pay for" thus no children. And Finland is just like many other well of European countries one with high taxes. So the government can and need to be involved.
Either one pay young couples to reproduce or face the consequences. No freebies! Another factor at play is higher industrialized automation which requires less people so perhaps depopulation is in fact sustainable to a degree. Having kids and doing education and work must also be easier or lest people will shun the whole deal. And while at it, make it way more attractive for highly educated and professionals to produce children so that it won't bias people that have nothing better to do than just reproduce and not care for their children.
So the combined effect of hard education, tough housing and work market, and a dysfunctional social maze puts (young) people off from making children. It's simply doesn't make the cost/benefit calculus for many individuals to work out. What the government(s) has at their hands is an crowd sourced answer to if making children makes personal sense. And importing people that can't reach up to high school level and behave in a highly developed society won't fix the problem. It will aggravate it severely.
(Score: 2) by gnuman on Sunday March 06 2016, @05:53AM
Finland's age pyramid from 1900 to 2060. You can understand why this is a real issue that we have a lot of people not in the the workforce AND needing care. Finland is not alone in this regard, but I believe that our population is "aging most rapidly" in the European Union.
Am I the only one that sees nothing wrong with that age pyramid. It tells me that population is more or less stable.
(Score: 2) by kazzie on Sunday March 06 2016, @09:34AM
There's something wrong with it if you compare its shape with that of the 1900-1950s. Nations' social security systems (pensions, healthcare) were built for the old shape, where a small contribution from a large number of working-age people will be enough to support a small number of elderly people. When a nation's demographics changes so there as many people retired as there are of working age, something's got to change.
(Score: 2) by krishnoid on Saturday March 05 2016, @02:44PM
To encourage more sexual intercourse among the Finnish population, requests for government grants are now being tender for the production and distribution of pornography.
Improved grants are also available:
Let's get to it, citizens -- the future of Finland is at stake here.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday March 05 2016, @04:39PM
Pornography is the problem, not the solution.
One thing I have noticed everytime I take trips out to the community college is that, while women are dressing more risque', there is less general sexual interest. This is due to increased access to pornography thanks to the internet as well as the diminished social skills of the latest generation, who were not taught concepts such as "manners" and "common sense." You will see decent-looking women attempting to flirt with fat slobs but those fat slobs will be utterly disinterested because they are waiting to go home to wank to extreme violent pornography involving choking, slapping, tentacle rape, and ass-to-mouth. Pornography has warped society to the point where it can no longer breed naturally.
I am older than thirty and in Southern California. It's ridiculously easy to get laid provided that you don't have any standards, but if you have a personality or looks or both it's easy to get with a decent-looking woman. If you're gay you can practically bend over anywhere and get laid on the spot. Even here where health and looks are a big deal you see plenty of ugly fat slobs with decent-looking women. And, I've heard this from a few women, if you have a big dick you can get laid very easily. All women pecker-watch, they're just really smooth about it. One trick I like to do is wear pants that are just a little big and scoot the two front belt-loops toward each other such that the crotch sticks out more. Works like a charm, man.
(Score: 2) by Absolutely.Geek on Saturday March 05 2016, @08:51PM
Should have ended it after the first paragraph.....modding insightful for that. I think you are correct, porn is easier and safer then the real thing....and no hassles.
Don't trust the police or the government - Shihad: My mind's sedate.
(Score: 2) by GungnirSniper on Saturday March 05 2016, @10:09PM
And it doesn't require any emotional entanglements or annoying activities with her dopey friends.
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(Score: 0) by scarboni888 on Sunday March 06 2016, @02:07AM
.... or family members you wouldn't give the time of day to otherwise unless they were in a dire emergency but then you'd do that for anyone no need to have to put up with having idiotic conversations with them just because you want to have real sex.
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 05 2016, @04:07PM
So which is it? Do we have a population problem or not?
The truth is certain races of people will breed regardless if they are overcrowded or have no resources to care for the children, while other races, such as those of European and Asian descent, have a sustainable breeding strategy. That Finland and all European and Asian countries are having a lower birth rate is a good thing. Stable populations increase and decline in a cycle much like a sine wave. Look at deer or wolves or any other population. Only the greedy globalist elite shit themselves when infinite growth is not maintained. What's a problem is the 3rd world peoples who have birthrates that are exploding beyond their means to provide for them.
In the old natural world where there was no "social justice", the problem fixed itself. The higher birth rates of Africa and Arabia were needed because of the infant mortality and living conditions. Now take these people who don't have the genes for self regulating population, and give them resources for free and their population skyrockets. The local farmers and herders can't compete with free foreign aid and go out of business. When even more people are born then even more people are soon to stave. Bring lots of these people into European or Asian countries and they will quickly turn them into the 3rd world, because they're proud to have multiple wives and 12 or 20 kids -- even if they can't support them, they are doing god's work.
White peoples make up 8% of the world population. They are a minority. No one is saying that Africa must become more white, in fact they've been exiling white colonists... "Diversity" is a code word for white genocide.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 05 2016, @04:35PM
So, err, god's work is fucking people. Yikes!
(Score: 1) by Corelli's A on Saturday March 05 2016, @05:18PM
That's some nice bait ya got there. OK, maybe just a nibble.
I think another name for the "gene" that influences fertility rates is called "education." I'm too lazy to look up a citation right now, but I think it's been well-established that as a population's education goes up, its fertility goes down. Et voila!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 06 2016, @01:30AM
If only it were so! The solution would be simple: girls may not attend school past 8th grade.
Realistically, we're headed toward an idiocracy. Only the dumbest are willing to breed, or unable to resist doing so. They will eventually collapse civilization.
Things like lead removal and better diet have hidden the fact that the genetics for intelligence peaked long ago, perhaps a century ago.
(Score: 2) by AnonymousCowardNoMore on Saturday March 05 2016, @06:11PM
The solution, then, should be obvious. All Finnish women are to come to Africa for re-education. Please form an orderly line.
(Score: 2) by gnuman on Sunday March 06 2016, @06:01AM
Now take these people who don't have the genes for self regulating population, and give them resources for free and their population skyrockets.
STFU with this troll. OK?
I'm from Europe where population is *now* about stable or declining. But my grandfather was from a family of 8 kids. Grandma from family of 9 kids. So what the fuck are you trolling about "genes for self regulating population"?
1. when women work, they have less kids.
2. when standard of living improves, families have less kids
It's that simple. Fuck all to do with genes.
Sorry, but this kind of racist bullshit is what we need less of in this world.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Snotnose on Saturday March 05 2016, @04:47PM
and he got fixed 14 years ago :(
I came. I saw. I forgot why I came.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 05 2016, @05:15PM
Is there anything else I can help you guys [yle.fi] with?