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Prostitution is certainly exploding. Anyone see appropriate reactions to this? How do we combat the loneliness epidemic that "social" media has caused? So many people raised on "social" media have no idea how to get to the kind of real, healthy relationship they want.

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Don't really follow your logic here, you're conflating prostitution and a "loneliness epidemic"? Prostitution is as old as civilization itself. Older, probably. I don't see rising prostitution as indicative of anything other than 'poor people are low on options'

Almost certainly older than civilization itself - female chimpanzees will trade sex for food. Presumably proto-humans did the same.

seems obvious to me. Lonely people are more likely to pay for prostitution.

Loneliness is increasing.

So if true, you expect prostitution to go up.

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