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I'd say half of it comes from the culture of oversharing promoted by things like Facebook and Twitter, where people can post the tiniest details of their lives in real time under the assumption that the whole world cares, and the other half is a case of "those who don't do, screech."
Me and my friends talk about sex with each other--we don't get into detail, but we might say "Oh it's been a while since I've done anything with George(fake name lol)" or when we've been drunk we've been known to express how excited we are to get home and get some(though it's usually expressed much more vulgarly). But we've never gone into real detail about what is done in the bedroom. None of us feel like we're oversharing though.
Me and my friends talk about sex with each other--we don't get into detail, but we might say "Oh it's been a while since I've done anything with George(fake name lol)" or when we've been drunk we've been known to express how excited we are to get home and get some(though it's usually expressed much more vulgarly). But we've never gone into real detail about what is done in the bedroom. None of us feel like we're oversharing though.
See, that's not considered oversharing. I had similar events with my classmates, "I haven't gotten anything from my BF in a month" but I do not want every single explicit detail...
This reminds me of an old Saturday Night Live skit with John Larroquette, Victoria Jackson, Nora Dunn, and Phil Hartmann. Couldn't find it online, but I did find a transcript. It parodies this exact phenomenon.
It's a sign of times. It's like many people think Facebook translates into real life, and it infects many aspects of life, not just bragging about the sex life. Too many people think their personal stories are way more interesting than they are. Unfortunately, many of them want everyone else to be interested, even if they are telling them in an inappropriate forum, and get offended if the listeners simply are not interested, or it's irrelevant and wasting time.
I'd get a lot more work done if "customers" weren't constantly holding me hostage telling me their "situations", about their health status, the health status of their family, their financial status. It's information I don't need to know, doesn't complete the task and hand, and I personally resent it.
Luckily all of our friends know that I am NOT into PDA and those things so any mention at all of personal sexual experiences are more hints at but not graphic details of if they are mentioned at all. As friends we respect each others likes and dislikes when it comes to open discussions and graphic details of personal sexual encounters and preferance. Besides now all of our friends are married and this is just not a topic we discuss when together, we have way too many other more important things to discuss like what's for supper, the last recipe tried and how it turned out, how are the grand children, etc. etc, you know, real life, real important stuff.
if it's literally a couple that is doing the over-sharing (most of this thread seems to focus on women's locker room type talk) i often wonder if they are feeling out the waters for a bit of soft swinging or something
Can't disagree with a word OP, not much to add. It's not that I'm a Victorian moralist or something, it's just that I don't find it interesting or appropriate to spill your private business to the world like it's popcorn or something. That goes for any private topic, not just sex.
Bleh.
I feel so old sometimes lol. Waiting on the arthritis in my joints now.
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