Quote: (09-11-2016 03:45 PM)subterfuge Wrote:
I imagine teh numbers for most guys will be much higher in general now due to tinder though? Kind of takes the 'game' element out of it?
I mean, lots of my friends just swipe all day, match, and then they just meet in a hotel room and bang. Like, zero game required.
I bet the average lays per person has sky-rocketed since tinder
Doubtful. In fact, it's likely the complete opposite.
It has done to sexual inequality what things like free trade, financial deregulation and lower marginal tax rates has done to income inequality in the United States. Tinder is basically sexual quantitative easing - it has given the top 1% an even greater and more efficient mechanism for wealth/pussy accumulation, to the detriment of everyone else.
I'll illustrate with a short anecdote. A friend of mine that I went through college with was the archetypical player - good looking, ripped, outgoing personality, the works. I caught a sight of his Tinder once as we were hanging out. He had somewhere on the order of 2500 matches total. He told me at length about how girls on Tinder were insanely thirsty.
Think about it. Men like him live in a completely alternate reality from the vast majority of the rest of the populace.
Now include the fact that most non-game aware young men in our society are being increasingly conditioned to rely on online game as the primary, if not the sole method, of opening/meeting girls. A method that, unlike cold approaching, removes all aspect of personality, vibe, character from the interaction, and reduces it down to facial/body aesthetics. It's no surprise that (as mentioned in the Slate article I copied above) the millennial generation is having less lifetime sexual partners, on average, than generations preceding. Even the greater and greater accumulation of pussy by the top 1% of the sexual marketplace isn't enough to keep the average up.
All of the new developments that we have seen in game over the last 15-20 years have made sexual inequality worse over time. And as Tinder and OKCupid and all the other online dating apps start to degrade in actual quality, we're starting to see significant movement to things like SeekingArrangement - where we can throw actual economic inequality into the seuxal marketplace to go with the already-extant sexual inequality.
It would not be at all surprising if, within the next 15-20 years, sex itself becomes the sole preserve of the upper and elite classes of men in our society.
HSLD