Sex is cheap: Why young men have the upper hand in bed, even while they're failing at life

[maynardsong]

We keep hearing that young men are failing to adapt to contemporary life. Their financial prospects are impaired-earnings for 25- to 34-year-old men have fallen by 20 percent since 1971. Their college enrollment numbers trail women's: Only 43 percent of American undergraduates today are men. Last year, women made up the majority of the work force

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[maynardsong]

Also, describing it as a sexual "marketplace"? Um, such a view is part and parcel of rape culture, Regnerus. JFC.

[jadedissola]

To better understand what's going on, it's worth a crash course in "sexual economics," an approach best articulated by social psychologists Roy Baumeister and Kathleen Vohs. As Baumeister, Vohs, and others have repeatedly shown, on average, men want sex more than women do.

You know, I've yet to be with a man whose libido was as high as mine.

In one frequently cited study, attractive young researchers separately approached opposite-sex strangers on Florida State University's campus and proposed casual sex. Three-quarters of the men were game, but not one woman said yes.

Hello, uh, maybe those women feared being raped, kidnapped, killed, etc.? You know, those things men don't usually have to worry about. I've known quite a few women who loved casual sex, just not from strangers who approached them on the street. And let's just say those women aren't saying no because they're worried the man propositioning them is a creep, maybe, just maybe they don't want casual sex?

[darkmanifest]

Hello, uh, maybe those women feared being raped, kidnapped, killed, etc.? You know, those things men don't usually have to worry about.

Seriously.

[mycenaes]

Yes to this whole comment.

[phoenix_anca]

Hello, uh, maybe those women feared being raped, kidnapped, killed, etc.? You know, those things men don't usually have to worry about. I've known quite a few women who loved casual sex, just not from strangers who approached them on the street. And let's just say those women aren't saying no because they're worried the man propositioning them is a creep, maybe, just maybe they don't want casual sex?

Exactly this.

[skello]

In one frequently cited study, attractive young researchers separately approached opposite-sex strangers on Florida State University's campus and proposed casual sex.

Yes, because asking around a specific university campus is representative of all male and female attitudes towards sex. Gah.

I'm not sure I even want to read the rest.

[sensualcoco]

men want sex more than women do. Call it sexist, call it whatever you want-the evidence shows it's true. In one frequently cited study, attractive young researchers separately approached opposite-sex strangers on Florida State University's campus and proposed casual sex. Three-quarters of the men were game, but not one woman said yes.

I'm sorry, but when is wanting sex the same as wanting sex from a creepy stranger on the street?

And there's a "price on sex"? smh

At least the commenter's on the article seem to be sticking it to him.

[mollywobbles867]

WTF IS THIS? I can't.