Do older people feel cheated?

[Shaunhorny]

For all of you that are 55+, do you feel like you got cheated out of life?

When you were young, sexuality was not just considered a bad thing but it also wasn't displayed all over the place like it is today. There was porn, but there was no internet porn. There was sex but there wasn't commonplace gangbangs (except for the few of you that took advantage during the 60s sexual revolution). Wives and girlfriends didn't even give blowjobs because that was something only whores did. There were personal ads, but there weren't webcams, interaction, online listings.

You didn't have cell phones, 50 inch tvs, laptops, etc. Religion and dresscodes were all up in your ass. You had vietnam, segregation, radio, and Leave it to Beaver.

Having been born in the late 70s I feel like I was born during the greatest period in human history. Not only did I live through the fun-filled 80's and gender bending 90's, but I've been able to enjoy all the technology of these decades as a young man.

Suffice it to say, I'd hate to be 50 - 90 years old right now. I'd feel like I was cheated out of all these things because I can't enjoy them in the same way I would if I were young.

 

[The Shake]

Math isn't your one of your strengths, is it?

 

[Shaunhorny]

Math isn't your one of your strengths, is it?

ok I've modified some of the things. But you know what I'm getting at.

Incidentally, I think what you said is actually funny, considering the topic. I haven't done much mathematics in my head for over a decade. I rely solely on calculators. Maybe because I'm younger.

 

[capncrunch]

I don't know about all this. I suppose it depends on your viewpoint.

My father was born in the mid-1930s, and he's convinced that his generation was the luckiest generation. Too young to be sent off to WWII but old enough to take full advantage of all the economic benefits that followed the war, a university degree actually meant something, careers were easy to establish - my father got a job for life after a 15 minute interview and a handshake - and a clear set of established rules. Men made the money and the women stayed at home to raise the kids. Full stop.

Things are different now. Sure, we've got cellphones and laptop computers. We've also got AIDS and feminazis. Pretty much anyone can go to to university, but degrees are a dime a dozen. There's no segregation, but if you're a middle-aged white male the rules automatically work against you.

Personally, I think my father's generation got the best of all worlds, even if it was tempered somewhat.

 

[Stoo]

I'm in my early 50s, but the short answer to your question is "no"...

During my time in University ('74-'78), sex was rampant, free, and not potentially fatal. There was more pot to smoke than even a stoner like me could inhale.

After school, while I travelled the world sewing my oats, sex was rampant, free, and not potentially fatal. I'd cut way back on the pot by then, since I was missing too much of the rampant, free sex~

I didn't miss a cell, or the internet, because they hadn't been invented. Checking in with the folks from South America was a short, rare, tricky, expensive proposition. Perfect.

Now that I'm near-ancient, and the internet is rampant and free, but I have to pay for sex, it's still good. Just different!

 

[biog]

Some good points yababy1956. For the record I'm in my early thirties and don't think we are living in any sort of 'golden age'. But I guess the OP is bang on about something. We can watch the local news about shootings and such on our wonderful 50" plasma TV.

Quite the trade off, don't you think?

 

[Nickelodeon]

Are you kidding....the baby boomers have enjoyed:

1. Free love and sex with no aids, no condoms required in our youth.
2. Lots of drugs.
3. Good jobs and unprecedented economic growth.
4. Cheap worldwide travel.
5. No world wars, just some ugly contained conflicts.

My blackberry has actually decreased my quality of life. My hi def Tv and laptop/internet/GPS are cool, but low on quality of life contributors.

You need to develop a broader perspective.

 

[Dani]

It is 9.00am on 02 Feb Feb 2009 this is the best time to live..



Oh wait is will be 3 Feb that is the best time..

 

[LancsLad]

Are you kidding....the baby boomers have enjoyed:

1. Free love and sex with no aids, no condoms required in our youth.
2. Lots of drugs.
3. Good jobs and unprecedented economic growth.
4. Cheap worldwide travel.
5. No world wars, just some ugly contained conflicts.

My blackberry has actually decreased my quality of life. My hi def Tv and laptop/internet/GPS are cool, but low on quality of life contributors.

You need to develop a broader perspective.

Amen to most , but i don't agree about the world travel being cheap.

Airline tickets to the UK were expensive in todays dollars.

Austin Powers summed up our late 60's ,early '70's experience best: " Guilt free sex in a consequence free environment......"

If only there had been more bush clearing back then.



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[snowleopard]

It is 9.00am on 02 Feb Feb 2009 this is the best time to live..



Oh wait is will be 3 Feb that is the best time..

I'm with you Dani ... the best time to live is right now, in this moment, without regret, regardless of one's age. As for the OP's question, in the words of Shaw: 'Youth is a wonderful thing ... too bad it's wasted on the young.'

 

[johnyboy]

It's all good buddy, as far as sex goes don't matter how you are doing it, pretty much all between the ears...mind you some of it is getting pretty nasty nowadays, does not really interest me. I do enjoy my family annd the wholesomeness that comes with that but to eaches own right

 

[johnyboy]

It's all good buddy, as far as sex goes don't matter how you are doing it, pretty much all between the ears...mind you some of it is getting pretty nasty nowadays, does not really interest me. I do enjoy my family annd the wholesomeness that comes with that but to eaches own right

 

[terpene]

You kids!!!

Back in those days, we had the first phone and the first TV on our street, so I do have a bit of perspective!

Life was then, and is now, great. Sex is getting better, I was very unimaginative. Now, my limits are the lack of enough hobbying money.

Some interesting milestones like legally having an SP 50 years younger, who apparently enjoyed me as much as I did her..., to finding an SP who seemed offended by a visit from this old guy. I'm not sure that I could appreciate a duo, but that's to find out. It's all in the mind - enjoy your own milestones, and don't waste pity on me!

 

[a 1 player]

In my opinion, the only thing worse about today is that life it too fast, there is not enough time anymore to just stop and smell the roses.

 

[Corey]

I would argue the demographic that has been shafted has been Generation X.

 

[snowleopard]

Wives and girlfriends didn't even give blowjobs because that was something only whores did.

... the film 'Deep Throat' was actually made in 1972. Do you think that the blowjob was invented by Linda Lovelace overnight? Apparently, there were instructions on how to perform fellatio in the Kama Sutra ... approximately 2000 years ago!

 

[Shaunhorny]

You're right about these times being tougher and more regulations and competition.

I have gotten a taste of what that must have been like thanks to the advent of the internet. Surely not anywhere near the same level as in the 60s or 70s but the internet was my generation's gold rush. I got in on it - luckily, since I didn't get online access until 1999 but managed to catch the tail-end of the free-for-all that the internet was at that time. I knew it was an opportunity of a lifetime the first time I logged in and entered a chatroom where I was literally chatting with somebody in China. For the first time in human history, I could communicate freely with and potentially market to thousands if not millions of people worldwide without needing a gazillion dollars for a tv advertisement. For a kid that didn't have two nickels to rub together and was deep in tuition debt, it was a Godsend.

 

[oldjones]

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times …" and there's nothing new under the sun.

But without feeling cheated, I'd swap the sexual evolution we've arrived at today for the Sexual Revolution that was just getting going back then.

 

[great bear]

Son, if you missed the 60's you missed it all. Nuff said.

 

[Danolo]

Do I feel cheated?

Nope... I am 61 and have enjoyed the good and bad results from many different behaviours and I'm glad to have experienced them all.

Today is the best day and hopefully, if nobody is shoveling dirt onto my face, tomorrow will be even better.