What would the world be like if everyone was single?

Id be bored for sure :) Who would I cook for? :)

I've no idea and can't speak for, or imagine what, the majority of people feel. As for the motivations of most others, none of us know.

I have a lot of energy I think. I do capoeira and BJJ and archery and horse riding and running and other martial arts and I have a serious fetish for cookery which I spend hours doing.

But I think despite all that if I suddenly ended up single - I don't have the particular energy required to go back on the market. If I woke up single tomorrow I'd happily stay that way and just do the thing. I couldn't do the whole relationship building thing all over again from scratch. It feels like "been there done that" so I'd be looking at what else there is in life.

I spend a lot of time with my friends. And I spend a hell of a lot of time training children. I think if my romantic/sexual relationship ever ended (unlikely at this point so this is all just conjecture and thinking out loud) I would just keep at those relationships. I would not invest in a romantic relationship again. I'd be done.

Agree. I just don't see the appeal. I'd prefer to spend a few hours on the mats breaking bones and choking throats :) And teaching kids to fight. Or give me a few hours alone with my oneida kestrel. I'd be happy out.

Not that I am not happy with the girls. I love being in a relationship. Especially a relationship that makes most guys drool. I just wouldn't ever be interested in another one. I could not do the whole "start from scratch" thing. I don't think I'd have the energy or head space for it. I've enough friends without doing "just drinks" with any gal just for the sake of it.

I think so yes. Don't get me wrong. I love sex. A lot. Especially the sex I am getting most of the time. But it's never felt like a need. If i t went away tomorrow I would not miss it.

If my bow went away tomorrow - or I could never fight again - I think I would feel that more. If I go a week without a fight all my old anxieties and depressions and self doubt and self hatred start coming back. I need challenges and "controlled discomfort" to keep me sane.

Sex though I think I could live without. I think I would be more likely to miss basic human touch and affection before I would miss sex. The touch of a loved one - the gentle caress or the cuddle - would be a lot more important to me than sex.

Sex is great. It's just never been a life priority for me I think. Which is ironic given I get more of it than most people I think :)

It's a weird idea that if everyone was single - that parenting and procreation would somehow stop happening. I sincerely doubt that. I actually think the opposite would happen. It would become the embodiment of the concept that "it takes a village to raise a child". The concept of family would simply become more communal.

Not sure if anyone remembers the movie Kpax. Or the book (if you do not like kevin spacey anymore you might like the book more) but the society he claimed to come from in the book / movie is basically what life would look like if the OPs thesis came into effect. There would be just as many children. It would just be a totally different concept of family.

Single parent SW payments would cripple the country.