It’s Easier to Pause When You Don’t Have to Maximise Every Minute
The Guardian asks why an international “sex drought” has spared Denmark.
Good question. Except it’s not really about sex. Or Denmark.
That we don’t have as much sex as we did in the 1990s is an indicator — a warning light on a dashboard somewhere — of a deeper problem (and its solutions).
As well Denmark having a culture that’s kind to sexual minorities and isn’t shy about sexual conversation in general:
there’s no student debt in Denmark; students get paid more than €600 a month to study; it’s very common to take a year or often two out between school and university, so everyone’s more confident by the time they start studying.
Did you hear that? Young Danes aren’t stiffed by loans that can never be repaid. They’re even given a stipend. And time to breathe.
“It’s easier to pause,” a Danish student says, “when you don’t have to maximise every minute.” They’re more likely to go on a date, one of many activities a person might enjoy when they’re not run ragged by a joyless study-pay-work-pay-die system.
This Danish sex story is a case study to show (for the thousandth time) that people are happier and healthier and more alive when their prospects — and the fabric of everyday experience — aren’t destroyed by the juicing mechanism of The Trap.
The Trap, lest we forget, is set by the bastards who call themselves politicians and businessmen. Not by refugees. Not by dole scum. Not by your neighbours.
Until The Trap is destroyed by a lovely uprising, we’ll have to teach ourselves how to escape. Where The Trap presents you with debt and toil to the extent that you can no longer even enjoy your private parts, say “no thank you” and find a way out.
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About Robert Wringham
Robert Wringham is the editor of New Escapologist. He also writes books and articles. Read more at wringham.co.uk