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A new study conducted in the United Kingdom has found current generations of adults—in part due to the “sheer pace of modern life”—are having less sex than their predecessors.
In other words, the grind of late-stage capitalism is stripping humanity of one of its unique (though not exclusive) features: screwing for fun.
The study—among the largest of its kind ever undertaken—analyzed the sexual lives and habits of over 34,000 men and women ages 16 to 44 in the UK and found a dramatic drop in the frequency of sexual activity this century.
“Using data from the British National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles (Natsal),” a summary of the report explained, “researchers found a general decline in sexual frequency in Britain between 2001 and 2012, with the biggest falls seen among over 25s and married or cohabiting couples.”
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“Several factors are likely to explain the declines, but one may be the sheer pace of modern life,” said Kaye Wellings, the study’s lead author and a professor of sexual health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, in a statement.
“It is interesting,” Wellings added, “that those most affected are in mid-life, the group often referred to as the ‘u-bend’ or ‘sandwich’ generation. These are the cohorts of men and women who, having started their families at older ages than previous generations, are often juggling childcare, work and responsibilities to parents who are getting older.”
In 2016, a study out of the London School of Economics showed that overall happiness in the modern economy would be more improved by less anxiety and love than increasing levels of income, but that doesn’t account for the manner in which the modern economy continues to mount financial anxieties on younger generations in terms of lower wages, increased debt, and few social services designed to alleviate stress or provide better health outcomes.
While Wellings acknowledged that the study was not intended to pinpoint the “cause” for these patterns of sexual behavior, nor did it determine any single reason for the drop in sexual activity among various age groups, she said the study does explore the intersection between happiness, stress, and sexual intercourse.
“What is important to well-being is not how often people have sex but whether it matters to them,” Welling said. “More than half of the men and women taking part in the study said they would prefer to have sex more often, which could partly stem from unfavourable comparisons with what they think is the norm.”
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“Most people believe that others have more regular sex than they do themselves,” she explained, adding that she hopes the study will help to dispell some of those myths.
“Many people are likely to find it reassuring that they are not out of line,” she said.
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Lando Norris says McLaren has a lot of work to do with its car, the Briton making the most of a poor weekend at Mugello.
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Norris avoided the thrills and spills in Sunday’s chaotic Tuscan Grand Prix, keeping himself out of trouble to finish sixth, a result that the Briton believes maximized his team’s potential at a venue where it struggled to get to grips with a particularly sensitive MCL35.
While teammate Carlos Sainz qualified ninth, Norris failed to make the Q3 cut for the first time this year, results that coupled with Sunday’s performance reflected McLaren’s struggle for pace at the challenging Mugello track.
The overall underperformance surprised the Woking-based outfit after Sainz’s impressive showing at Monza a week earlier.
“It was very difficult to drive,” said Norris, reflecting on his MCL35’s behavior. “The conditions were very similar to yesterday and weren’t suiting our car, so it was very difficult.
“We’ve got a lot of work to do with the car, even though some races we’ve been very fast, but it seems so sensitive to different conditions and different track surfaces and so on, and it makes our life a lot more difficult.
“We came here thinking we were going to be pretty quick, we had a lot of confidence and it went away pretty much straight away,” he added.
“We have to understand this car even more, even though we’ve had it for a while and had some good results.
“F1 cars are not easy to figure out, and from my side, the mechanics, the engineers all have to continue to push and do even better.”
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Norris believes circumstances rather than pace allowed him to add 8 points to his tally, a result that surpassed his expectations.
“We just stayed out of the crashes and the rubbish and we did a lot better than we were expecting,” he said after Sunday’s race.
“So as much as it was a long and tough race, I was very happy… We didn’t have the pace today, but I think we made the most of a pretty poor weekend, so hopefully the next one can be a little bit better.”
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Senate candidate and former Republican presidential nominee Mitt RomneyWillard (Mitt) Mitt RomneyMilley discussed resigning from post after Trump photo-op: report Trump on collision course with Congress over bases with Confederate names Attorney says 75-year-old man shoved by Buffalo police suffered brain injury MORE has been going door to door in Utah to boost voter interest for other GOP candidates.
“I do get a, ‘What are you doing here? How did you arrive here?'” Romney told Fox News recently, when asked how he’s received as he goes from house to house.
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“Of course, the reaction changes from door to door. Some Democrats are not as enthusiastic as some Republicans,” Romney said. “But by and large a very big welcome.”
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The 2012 GOP presidential nominee is well-known in the state: The Salt Lake City Winter Olympics hired him as president and CEO when the 2002 games were in the midst of a revenue shortfall.
A spokesperson for Romney’s campaign told The Hill he campaigned for Davis County Commission candidate Lorene Kamalu and Utah House candidate Melissa Ballard.
Throughout the midterms, he has actively campaigned for other Utah Republicans, supporting 41 state and local hopefuls as well as nine national candidates.
Romney’s own Senate race has been relatively quiet, given poll numbers suggest he will win easily against his Democratic opponent, Jenny Wilson, with the election less than a week away.
“I think I’m the one guy who will be in the United States Senate — if I get there — that’s actually run for president and not planning on doing it again,” Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts, told Fox.
“And as a result of that I think I have the freedom to really focus on issues that the people of our state care about and the people of our country care about.”
“That relates to our budget deficit, the amount of debt we have, as well as our immigration policies,” he said. “So there’s a lot I hope to be able to do.”
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Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) on Friday activated his state National Guard’s cybersecurity teams to be on standby for Tuesday’s midterms.
“Wisconsin voters should feel confident that the Wisconsin National Guard’s team is ready if needed to provide assistance on Election Day,” said Maj. Gen. Donald Dunbar in the National Guard’s announcement of the move.
“The governor’s executive order simply allows us to deploy those resources quickly.”
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Maj. Joy Staab of the Wisconsin National Guard told local ABC affiliate 27 News that the division has not been given any orders beyond remaining on alert.
“At this time we have no requests for support but in the event that we were requested to support we could more rapidly deploy service members, in this case our cyber security team,” Staab said.
The officer added that this will be the first time the cybersecurity teams will come into use since their creation in 2016, though he noted that the activation is just precautionary.
“We would rather be prepared to more rapidly deploy the troops and not use them if we don’t have to,” Staab said.
Though some warn that the U.S. is still subject to election meddling from outside forces, experts have said that states have been working to improve cybersecurity ahead of the elections.
The Center for Strategic and International Studies found last Tuesday that 40 states have invested over $75 million in improving election security.
Top Senate Democrat Mark WarnerMark Robert WarnerVirginia senator calls for Barr to resign over order to clear protests Trump asserts his power over Republicans Expanding tax credit for businesses retaining workers gains bipartisan support MORE (Va.), said Sunday that Americans can “vote with confidence” in Tuesday’s midterms, asserting that the elections will be protected from foreign threats.
“I think we’ve made great progress, particularly at the individual polling stations and with the tabulations of votes. So I think people should vote with confidence,” Warner said on CBS’s “Face the Nation.”
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Republican Denver Riggleman defeated Democrat Leslie Cockburn to maintain GOP control of Virginia’s 5th District on Tuesday night.
The polls in the lead up to election night showed Cockburn and Riggleman locked in a tight race for the generally Republican district.
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Cockburn also scored an endorsement from former Republican Sen. John Warner (Va.) late last month, who said that while he was still a Republican, Cockburn was “an exceptional candidate.”
President TrumpDonald John TrumpSenate advances public lands bill in late-night vote Warren, Democrats urge Trump to back down from veto threat over changing Confederate-named bases Esper orders ‘After Action Review’ of National Guard’s role in protests MORE endorsed Riggleman in the race late last month.
The race was not without controversy: Cockburn earlier this year accused Riggleman of being a “devotee of Bigfoot erotica,” sharing photos attributed to his private Instagram of a nude Sasquatch with its genitals censored.
Riggleman denied that he was into “Bigfoot erotica,” claiming that his work is “really is an anthropological study on all the people who believe in Bigfoot and the different Bigfoot belief systems out there.”
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And Cockburn also had star power on her side: Her daughter, actress Olivia Wilde, knocked on doors for her mother last month.
Riggleman was picked as the Republican candidate in the race after Rep. Tom GarrettThomas (Tom) Alexander GarrettGOP rep calls on primary opponent to condemn campaign surrogate’s racist video Liberty University official to launch primary challenge to GOP’s Riggleman Female Dems see double standard in Klobuchar accusations MORE (R-Va.) announced that he would retire and seek treatment for alcoholism. Garrett initially said that he would run for reelection for the seat.
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A political nonprofit aiming to boost President TrumpDonald John TrumpSenate advances public lands bill in late-night vote Warren, Democrats urge Trump to back down from veto threat over changing Confederate-named bases Esper orders ‘After Action Review’ of National Guard’s role in protests MORE’s policies is set to debut a new ad on Monday calling on lawmakers to fund his long-promised wall along the U.S. southern border.
The $500,000 ad buy is the second from America First Policies this month, seeking to put pressure on Congress to get behind the border wall project. Together, the ads have cost the group $1 million so far.
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The latest spot features Michelle Root, whose daughter was killed in 2016 in a car crash allegedly caused by an immigrant in the country without legal status. In the ad, Root suggests that building the border wall would prevent future tragedies, while alluding to the administration’s controversial former policy of separating migrant families at the border.
“My separation is permanent,” she says in the 30-second spot. “I want to see that wall built. I want to see stronger immigration laws. Make your voice heard. Call your congressman and your senators.”
The ad comes nearly three weeks after Democrats recaptured the House in the midterm elections, giving them a majority in the chamber for at least the next two years.
The party needed to gain at least 23 seats to recapture control of the House. So far, Democrats have picked up 38 seats.
The ad from America First Policies also comes as a deadline for lawmakers to fund the government is just two weeks away.
Trump wants Congress to approve at least $5 billion in funding for his border wall, while Senate Democrats have said that they will offer no more than $1.6 billion.
The border wall was a key part of Trump’s messaging on the campaign trail. But lawmakers and independent think tanks have questioned the efficacy of a proposed border wall, arguing that it would ultimately fail to significantly stymie illegal border crossings, while costing the government billions of dollars.
Tax disclosures made available earlier this month show that in its first year in operation, America First Policies raised more than $22 million and spent roughly $4.3 million on political campaign activity expenditures.
A copy of the return was posted online by the Center for Responsive Politics.
As a 501(c)(4) nonprofit, America First Policies is not required to disclose its donors. But its tax filing shows that it raised money from 33 contributors in its first year, including two anonymous donors who gave $4.5 million and $5 million, respectively.
The filing also shows the group paid nearly $2.8 million to Parscale Strategy, the firm run by Trump’s campaign manager Brad Parscale, and roughly $662,000 to The Polling Company, the polling firm founded by White House counselor Kellyanne ConwayKellyanne Elizabeth ConwayGeorge Conway group hits Ernst in new ad George Conway group contrasts Trump, Eisenhower in battleground states ad Sunday shows preview: Protests against George Floyd’s death, police brutality rock the nation for a second week MORE and now owned by the conservative CRC Public Relations.
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Over 100 global organizations declared Friday to be “Day of the Landless.” They marked the occasion with a statement denouncing neoliberal plunder of the planet’s natural resources and reaffirming marginalized rural communities’ claims to land and food sovereignty.
The declaration is endorsed by over 100 international and national organizations including the Asian Peasant Coalition, Food Sovereignty in Action Europe, GRAIN, and Arab Group for the Protection of Nature, as well as the Farmworker Association of Florida and Zambia Social Forum.
“We see how massive infrastructure projects and agricultural ‘development’ programs, many funded through onerous foreign debt and investments, displace rural peoples from their lands, livelihoods, and cultures—all in the name of imperialist domination and plunder, local elite rule, and private profits,” the groups wrote.
“The neoliberal restructuring of agriculture,” added the coalition, has contributed to a situation in which the vast majority of the world’s agricultural land is in the hands of a wealthy few—despite the fact the vast majority of farms are held by small holders. It is these small farmers “who actually till and enrich the lands for generations.”
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In their zeal to pursue profits by snatching up ever more land for destructive plantations and mining operations, governments and corporate entities are carrying out “human rights atrocities” against small farmer advocates, the groups noted, referencing a catalog of documented killings, assaults, and threats.
Despite this grim backdrop, however, the declaration is far from being just gloom-and-doom.
The groups shared “some of the stories of resistance” such as Brazilian campesinos occupying contested lands, and announced their intention to stand “with even greater resolve and determination to reclaim our lands and future.”
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“We mark the Day of the Landless to let the world recognize our legitimate demands for land to the tiller and genuine agrarian reform; for food sovereignty; and for people’s rights and democracy,” they stated.
“Today,” they concluded, “we reaffirm our commitment to reclaim our lands and our future from the powerful forces that took them away.”
The new statement coincides with the kickoff the “No Land, No Life!” campaign.
According to organizers PAN Asia Pacific (PANAP) and its partners, the goals of the campaign are to:
- Highlight land and resource grabbing as human rights issues;
- Identify and highlight specific struggles of local communities on land and resources;
- Raise greater awareness on and generate broader support; and
- Coordinate and reinforce the various national campaigns against land and resource grabbing.
To see more about the issue, watch the short film The Right to Resist Land Grabs from PANAP below:
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The Department of Homeland Security said Wednesday that it expects to be able to use facial recognition technology to scan 97 percent of departing airline passengers within the next four years.
The department’s facial recognition program, officially titled “Biometric Exit,” is run by Customs and Border Protection (CBP), a branch of DHS.
According to The Hill, the program “cross-references the images of departing passengers with a ‘gallery’ of images [and] photos from visa and passport applications. The matching service allows CBP to create a record of the passenger’s departure, which they can then use to figure out if the individual has overstayed their visa.”
Biometric Exit has raised alarm among privacy advocates.
Jeramie Scott, director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center’s Domestic Surveillance Project, told Buzzfeed in March that “it’s important to note what the use of facial recognition [in airports] means for American citizens.”
“It means the government, without consulting the public, a requirement by Congress, or consent from any individual, is using facial recognition to create a digital ID of millions of Americans,” Scott said.
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Members of Congress have echoed privacy advocates’ concerns about the implications of facial recognition technology, which is largely unregulated under U.S. law.
Sens. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Mike Lee (R-Utah) called on DHS to halt the Biometric Exit program in a joint statement last month.
“DHS has a statutory requirement to submit a report to Congress detailing the viability of biometric technologies, including privacy implications and accuracy,” the senators said. “DHS should pause their efforts until American travelers fully understand exactly who has access to their facial recognition data, how long their data will be held, how their information will be safeguarded, and how they can opt out of the program altogether.”
As Common Dreams reported last month, CBP is “scrambling” to implement its facial recognition program at busy airports in Atlanta, New York, and other major cities across the United States.
Jay Stanley, senior policy analyst with the ACLU, said facial recognition is “an extremely powerful surveillance technology that has the potential to do things never before done in human history.”
“Yet the government is hurtling along a path towards its broad deployment—and in this case, a deployment that seems quite unjustified and unnecessary,” Stanley added.
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Public Citizen sued Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Tuesday for allegedly blocking access to the consumer group’s website on her department’s guest Wi-Fi and internal networks.
“No way are we going to let them get away with suppressing our views.”
—Robert Weissman, Public Citizen
“This is a blatant violation of the First Amendment,” Public Citizen president Robert Weissman wrote in an email to supporters. “Users attempting to access Public Citizen’s website though the department’s guest wireless networks receive a message that access is ‘in violation of your internet usage policy.’ We requested the department’s policy for blocking access to internet sites, but it hasn’t responded to our request.”
“What we do know,” Weissman continued, “is that our website contains lots of information critical of DeVos and the department.”
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Public Citizen filed its complaint (pdf) in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on behalf of David Halperin, a Public Citizen board member who frequently attends meetings at the Department of Education and uses its Wi-Fi network.
The organization’s filing alleges that the Department of Education is violating both the First Amendment and the Administrative Procedure Act by blocking access to its website.
“The department and DeVos have no legitimate justification for blocking access to Public Citizen’s website,” the group said in a press release. “Public Citizen’s website includes material on a wide range of issues, including information critical of the department and DeVos… Public Citizen also uses its website to inform the public about litigation, including litigation involving DeVos and the department.”
Public Citizen is seeking “a court order declaring the department’s and DeVos’s action unlawful and enjoining them from blocking access” to its site.
“No way are we going to let them get away with suppressing our views,” Weissman said.
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The U.K. Parliament made history on Wednesday by becoming the first to declare an environment and climate emergency.
MPs in the House of Commons passed the motion put forth by Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn following debate.
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“This can set off a wave of action from parliaments and governments around the globe,” Corbyn said in a statement, which called attention to the recent wave of actions demanding urgent action on the climate crisis.
“Protesters and school-strikers told us to act,” he said. “Governments never act without pressure and we must keep the pressure up. I’m proud that the Labour Party brought this motion to the House, and now we will carry on this work by developing our plans to deliver a Green Industrial Revolution.”
“Now it’s time for real action to tackle climate change,” Labour added on Twitter.
Climate activists welcomed the development—and the grassroots power that made it happen—but also stressed that it must be followed by a dismantling of business-as-usual to truly behave as though it’s an emergency.
The U.K. Parliament will vote Wednesday on a Labour Party motion to declare a climate emergency.
“We have no time to waste,” Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said in prepared remarks. “We are living in a climate crisis that will spiral dangerously out of control unless we take rapid and dramatic action now.”
Corbyn also praised youth who’ve led recent climate strikes.
“The truth is they are ahead of the politicians on this—the most important issue of our times,” said Corbyn.
“By becoming the first parliament in the world to declare a climate emergency,” he added, “we could set off a wave of action from parliaments and governments around the globe.”
Watch the debate in the House of Commons currently underway:
A number of environmental groups, including UK Student Climate Network, Extinction Rebellion, and Friends of the Earth, are supporting a demonstration outside Parliament at 5pm.
“The first step to mitigating the worst impacts of climate change is making the government admit the scale and urgency of the situation,” the groups said in a call-to-action. “This is our chance to make that happen.”
In a tweet posted Tuesday, Corbyn gave a sense of urgency to his party’s motion. “It’s time to act,” he said.
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