<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bko</author><text>Entertainment has entered a tyranny of choice. I see it personally. I can watch nearly every show and movie that was ever created but I still flip through Netflix and RT endlessly, often times choosing not to watch anything. When I was younger I would just watch Seinfeld re-runs, with commercials and all. Am I more &amp;quot;entertained&amp;quot; today than I was when I was growing up? I&amp;#x27;m not convinced.&lt;p&gt;The weirdest thing is I don&amp;#x27;t remember what I used to talk to my friends about when I was in high school. We didn&amp;#x27;t have much shared media to talk about (e.g. periodic TV shows people obsess about today). None of us so much picked up a newspaper at the time so current events were out. None of us had that many specific interests and the interests we had weren&amp;#x27;t shared. But somehow we spent hours talking about something. I wish I could be a fly on the wall of my prom table to just take in what was discussed.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ChuckNorris89</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t think tech or porn is the main culprit. It&amp;#x27;s that people now have way more entertainment options other than sex. Of course, a lot for those entertainment options are being driven by tech.&lt;p&gt;Back in my dad&amp;#x27;s days, they were poor so the only entertainment options in their free time was drinking cheap home made alcohol, dancing and sex, while now we have gaming, Netflix, tic-tok, porn, traveling to the infinite Instagramable places around the world, plus the grind of keeping up with spiraling living and real estate costs, which IMHO, is the real bummer here.&lt;p&gt;Also, adult dating and meeting people for the post-college working professionals,  has largely moved from clubs&amp;#x2F;bars&amp;#x2F;the office to online dating apps, or lonely depression in your apartment, eating or drinking your feelings away, for those without success in the WFH, remote-everything, online dating world. Especially with the lockdowns.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Sex is going out of fashion?</title><url>https://www.welltechnically.news/p/sex-is-going-out-of-fashion</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>CodeSgt</author><text>I think that all the things you listed are definitely culprits, but I wouldn&amp;#x27;t be so quick to discount porn.&lt;p&gt;Anecdotally, I myself and many otherwise healthy, sociable young men I know have pretty serious porn addictions. I really wish there would be more research done on the negative impacts of pornography, especially on young men and teens&amp;#x2F;pre-teens.&lt;p&gt;I know typically any anti-porn sentiment is met with &amp;quot;Oh you&amp;#x27;re just being a puritan&amp;quot;, but the reality couldn&amp;#x27;t be further from the truth.&lt;p&gt;On social issues, I&amp;#x27;m very liberal. Yet so much porn during my developmental years has done so much damage that as an adult I&amp;#x27;m just now really understanding the full extent of it, and breaking that addiction is incredibly difficult</text><parent_chain><item><author>ChuckNorris89</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t think tech or porn is the main culprit. It&amp;#x27;s that people now have way more entertainment options other than sex. Of course, a lot for those entertainment options are being driven by tech.&lt;p&gt;Back in my dad&amp;#x27;s days, they were poor so the only entertainment options in their free time was drinking cheap home made alcohol, dancing and sex, while now we have gaming, Netflix, tic-tok, porn, traveling to the infinite Instagramable places around the world, plus the grind of keeping up with spiraling living and real estate costs, which IMHO, is the real bummer here.&lt;p&gt;Also, adult dating and meeting people for the post-college working professionals,  has largely moved from clubs&amp;#x2F;bars&amp;#x2F;the office to online dating apps, or lonely depression in your apartment, eating or drinking your feelings away, for those without success in the WFH, remote-everything, online dating world. Especially with the lockdowns.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Sex is going out of fashion?</title><url>https://www.welltechnically.news/p/sex-is-going-out-of-fashion</url></story>