Explaining Sex Rate Changes

Post by toasterlovin » Mon, Apr 08, 2019, 10:18 PM UTC

dragonwriter wrote: post #525

bubblewrap wrote: post #524

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George Clooney is probably at least 1000 times richer than Joe Average. So he could provide better for 50 women than Joe Average for one. Of course it doesn't seems as if he is taking on 50 women, so the women are stuck with Joe Average for the most part. Just because women would prefer George Clooney, doesn't mean they can get him. And sure, modern society (at least for a while) has made monogamy the norm. Doesn't m…

> George Clooney is probably at least 1000 times richer than Joe Average. So he could provide better for 50 women than Joe Average for one. Assuming all of a woman’s needs are financial, sure. But unless he is hiring Joe Averages to provide personal attention and emotional support (and there are issues with the viability of that), not really in the universe of what appears to be real human needs.

Post by throwawayjava » Mon, Apr 08, 2019, 10:45 PM UTC

samhain wrote: post #481

throwawayjava wrote: post #291

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I'm still highly suspicious of the narrative all of this is premised on. TFA mentions the low sample size of the original study, and augments it with Twitter polls. But TFA author's Twitter follows aren't exactly a representative sample of the population... Furthermore, monogamy and sexual activity remains strong for people in their 30s, and I expect this will continue to be true in the future. Women are having child…

>It's exceptionally unlikely that a small subgroup of men who already refuse to adapt is large enough and motivated enough to hold the rest of society at gunpoint. Isn't it the point that it's something like 80% of men that are becoming disenfranchised? That hardly seems like a small subgroup to me.

Post by etiam » Mon, Apr 08, 2019, 11:09 PM UTC

stared wrote: post #337

freyir wrote: post #26

As the article points out, fewer young men are having sex, but roughly the same number of young women are having sex. I wonder if dating apps (Tinder, Bumble, etc.) are leading women to have sex with a smaller cohort of desirable men. Years ago, OkCupid noted that a small percentage of men get an overwhelming percentage of messages from women. With the rise of "swipe right, swipe left" mobile dating apps, where peopl…

"[In Tinder,] the bottom 80% of men (in terms of attractiveness) are competing for the bottom 22% of women and the top 78% of women are competing for the top 20% of men" - from https://medium.com/@worstonlinedater/tinder-experiments-ii-g... (2015). I dive a bit it that topic in "Dating for nerds (part 2): gender differences" https://p.migdal.pl/2017/09/30/dating-for-nerds-gender-diffe... .

Post by gfiorav » Mon, Apr 08, 2019, 11:42 PM UTC

monetus wrote: post #456

gfiorav wrote: post #352

In my case, I’ve always found partners (including my wife with whom I’ve been in a strong relationship for 8 years) in gatherings with friends and friends of friends. I would absolutely DREAD today’s dating scene through a screen. Maybe older men do it the old way? I don’t know, this is one revolution I hope regresses. If you’re young and looking, I’d suggest you try to mix and match your circle with your friends’ ci…

How many times have your circles imploded?

Post by WrtCdEvrydy » Tue, Apr 09, 2019, 1:11 AM UTC

danlugo92 wrote: post #536

raducu wrote: post #505

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Sorry to break it to you, but women chose you not because you're suddenly more attractive than your friend, but because they've had 15 years or so to learn that your friend won't settle down and their biological clock is ringing real hard in their 30s. It's quite cynical, I know.

In this situation, the man would be scraps... Wouldn't him? How would that make him feel? As someone unlucky with girls I vowed to never let myself become scraps for any woman when I get older.