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Comment author: ChristianKl 01 June 2015 06:07:18PM -1 points [-]

the original post was talking about young people, and 30-34 doesn't match that

No, he referred to a 40 year old virgin in Silicon Valley. In general advancedatheist argues that young people who don't learn the requisite skills of mating when they are young don't learn them afterwards.

The author's focus is on the way atheism is "sold" to young men and women as a way to improve their sex lives, and how this is misleading to young men, and your focus is instead on how rare the target audience of this kind of sales tactic is.

Where does the assumption that improving one's sex life is impossible if one already has sex come from? If you believe that sex is bad than you will have less fun with it. It becomes harder to communicate with a partner about what one desires. Plenty of women who do have sex have no orgasms.

Comment author: OrphanWilde 01 June 2015 06:45:33PM 1 point [-]

No, he referred to a 40 year old virgin in Silicon Valley. In general advancedatheist argues that young people who don't learn the requisite skills of mating when they are young don't learn them afterwards.

I don't see that reference. It's possible it's been removed - the comment/post has been edited - but either way that's both still not the right age range, and a red herring anyways.

Where does the assumption that improving one's sex life is impossible if one already has sex come from? If you believe that sex is bad than you will have less fun with it. It becomes harder to communicate with a partner about what one desires. Plenty of women who do have sex have no orgasms.

Null. Improving one's sex life requires having a sex life in the first place, the absence of which is rather central to his comment/post.

Comment author: ChristianKl 01 June 2015 08:39:36PM -1 points [-]

I don't see that reference.

That's because you read the post without the context. This post includes the sentence "Referring to the story I linked below about the male virgins in Silicon Valley, I doubt that they wound up that way because of christian upbringings. "

That post refers to a 40 year old virgin.

Null. Improving one's sex life requires having a sex life in the first place, the absence of which is rather central to his comment/post.

Then you just contradicted yourself. You wrote "atheism is "sold" to young men and women as a way to improve their sex lives"

Comment author: OrphanWilde 01 June 2015 08:53:41PM 0 points [-]

Ah. I see. Well, I'm not interested in winning points in a pedantry contest, so good day.