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Why So Many Young Men Are Lonely, Sexless, and Extremely Online

Plain English with Derek Thompson

CHAPTER

The Effects of Screen Time on Loneliness

We have a relatively comprehensive theory here that we have more time being spent on screens, which is leading to a sense of loneliness or a sense of disconnection. We are seeing the effects in the physical world with, for example, the decline in youth sports and all of that together just doesn't seem to me to be a recipe for people feeling connected with their worldconnected with friends or seen by their community. So I see it as an absolutely bad thing. If young men are playing more golf, then we're more troubled than I thought we were. It turns out that male teachers are much more likely to be after school coaches than female teachers who are everything else equal. And honestly if you

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