shminux comments on Raise the Age Demographic - Less Wrong

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Comment author: CronoDAS 07 August 2011 02:43:33AM 9 points [-]

My father refuses to spend any time at the New York meetups because he thinks it's for people my age, not his age...

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 08 August 2011 12:59:42AM -1 points [-]

Well, he's probably kinda right. I mean, I can visualize some 50-year-old getting along just fine but they'd have to be an unusually cool 50-year-old who doesn't make the others present feel uncomfortable when the topic of polyamory comes up.

Comment author: shminux 10 August 2011 05:55:52PM 1 point [-]

It's more likely that some of the younger participants would be weirded out by someone their parents' age discussing anything related to sex, something they are probably still compartmentalizing into the "they did it once for me, once for my brother" box.

Comment author: JackEmpty 10 August 2011 06:19:12PM 3 points [-]

At around age 16, I thought, "My parents own a cabin cruiser sailboat. They go up the river alone on the weekends... Oh. Well then." And went on with my life.

I'm 19 now. Some point between then and now I learned my father had a vasectomy. So at least they're enjoying themselves.

I may be an outlier in this situation, however. It just didn't exactly faze me at all.