Clickbait title, incredibly thought-provoking piece on the nature of ... everything? Culture, society, the inner landscape of the current moment?
Masturbation may be the most perfect symbol of our current malaise-modernity. It is now possible for us to take all kinds of natural impulses, responsibilities, and fears that are intended to push us out into relationship and interaction, and turn them inward.
We're social primates, but what it means to be social has got really fucked up, with consequences we're only beginning to understand. Great read.
I feel similarly concerned about these topics, but I also remind myself that every generation has been concerned by the poisoning effects of this that or other social trend on the next generation. Will the kids be okay? Historically, they have been...(?) Or not, depending on whose values you're using to judge.