Friday, July 25, 2025
The Wrap-Up
Thursday, July 24, 2025
An Actual Relationship
Morning.
A question from a Faithful Reader:
"I wanted to ask something deeper today. Lately, I keep thinking about how so many men feel lonely. It’s like an epidemic of loneliness. Many of us go through these cycles: watching porn, jerking off, scrolling apps like Grindr, hooking up quickly, and then back to the same loop again. It’s dopamine, dopamine, dopamine… but I wonder, what’s happening to real human connection?
The situation you're asking about has been developing over the years since social media began, and has only gotten worse since COVID. We have isolated ourselves. The idea of the hook-up apps, like Grindr, etc, are fine for their intended purpose: Sex; a lot of it anonymous, one-time things to satisfy the urge. But if we want social connection or an actual relationship, we have to get out among people. Even if we're introverts, we can still feel more connection and establish friendships and relationships by getting out of the house. By going and doing things which interest us, we'll "find our people" as the saying goes. Volunteering, joining a club.
What say you, Readers?