The Climate Is Changing Everything—Including Our Sex Lives

The New Republic ^ | July 27, 2023 | by Julia Sonenshein

[Oldeconomybuyer]

When the fires from Canada blanketed New York City in smoke last month, my partner and I tried to have sex in the early evening. But the terrible air quality outside made us shallow-breathed and racked by coughing fits in the orange light. Our lungs have been the subject of much neurosis for the last three years in a pandemic deeply intertwined with climate change, and when we finally caught the virus eight months before the smoke came, we each developed a cough that wouldn’t leave us.

In climate change, we face an unimaginable threat to humanity. As humans do, however, we’re living through it: We’re working, we’re cooking dinner, we’re seeing friends, and we’re having sex. But sex is changing. Birth rates are down, and some people who are forgoing parenthood cite climate change as a factor.

There is alarming evidence that climate change both directly and indirectly impacts our sexual health, including due to increased gender-based violence or disruptions in sexual or reproductive services because of extreme weather. There also exists a body of writing on the logistics of climate change and sex: It’s getting hotter, so sex might become a more uncomfortable, sweatier affair. But a thornier question, perhaps, is to ask how intimacy is changing in the face of impending doom. How is desire affected when the world as we know it seems to be ending in front of our eyes?

[EEGator]

Thanks.

The media enjoys propagating the opinions of people far outside the norm, and framing it as news.
95% of “news” isn’t news.

[Joe 6-pack]

"When the fires from Canada blanketed New York City in smoke last month, my partner and I tried to have sex..."

Jut like a millennial to get things ass backwards. Everybody knows you smoke after sex.

[Texas Fossil]

It is also the sign of the UT Longhorns. But remember long ago, 1/3 of the male population at UT was said to be queer.

I did not attend UT.

[Texas Fossil]

Look at the cover of the magazine.

https://newrepublic.com/article/173629/climate-changing-everythingincluding-sex-lives

Is that 2 females kissing? Well, today, how can you tell?

[bk1000]

“Course, the first sentence also provided a clue.”

No coincidence then she’s wearing a seafood bib in the pic!

[SaveFerris]

You noticed that too.....

[Libloather]

[Nifster]

A complete idiot

[wildcard_redneck]

"No coincidence then she’s wearing a seafood bib in the pic!"

Confusion at the fish market?

[Brooklyn Attitude]

“In climate change, we face an unimaginable threat to humanity.”

The unimaginable threat to humanity is the Jackass Party.

[fruser1]

When it warms up, more leftists go outdoors to escape their cramped, boiling, apartments.

Then they see those farm animals...

[Texas Fossil]

“Everybody knows you smoke after sex.”

hee hee hee

Just like a leftie. Everything is backwards.

[zeestephen]

Re: "we face an unimaginable threat"

Someone...Anyone...please help me imagine this threat!

[Baldwin77]

TMI, Julia

[Lazamataz]

Shut up, you dog-faced pony soldier.

[quantim]

...Including Our Sex Lives

One of the major reasons for the apparent lack of  'sex' as the article states is that so many Americans are just plain ole' fat.  These chunkies are just not attractive, been to grocery store or big box lately?  Add in the sagging mental capacity of this current generation along with being anon on social media platforms and we have even a lesser population to make payments on the soon to be $40 trillion in gubmit debt.  I don't really care, this decepit government has been taking money from me for redistribution since the early 70's and they're still doing it.  No worries though, this country will collapse anyway about the time when most of us croak off, and those of us that live in the north, a snowbank instead of burning up under a false pretense LOL.

[Texas Fossil]

JA PARTY?

Yes, hee haww! hee haww! hee haww!

[Raycpa]

We closed our windows when the smoke came.

[DeplorablePaul]

It would have been OK with me if she wore a mask.

[Boomer]

Fun article if it’s 100% satire. Boneheaded if it isn’t.