Quote: (12-19-2018 01:34 AM)Delta Wrote:
According to forum consensus the average woman is perpetually looking for her next fix of alpha dick, but this article shows that's not at all the reality. That idea thrives here due to two forms of faulty logic:
1. Sample bias ("My plate who I fucked on the first date admitted to having a notch count over 50, I assume that's normal.")
2. Projection ("I'm always in search of hot pussy so women must always be in search of alpha dick.")
Get it out of your head that the typical woman is a raging slut with a double figure notch count. It simply isn't true.
This line from the article particularly stands out:
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Over the course of a year, he reports, only 50 percent of heterosexual single women in their 20s go on any dates—and older women are even less likely to do so.
I'd always wondered why, with the glut of single 20-something women, so few use dating apps and go out to bars, at least relative to men (hence why the ratios are so awful). The standard explanation on here is "they're getting their fill of dick elsewhere, they don't need to." But it's clear now that's not really the case. The correct explanation is "they don't care enough."
Most single women aren't meeting men and aren't doing anything about it. It just doesn't make its way to the top of their priority list. And if we look at where this phenomenon is and isn't happening, a likely culprit pops up: The trend is emerging only in safe, prosperous societies. Where women do not need the resources and protection of a man, they do not seek out a man. Case in point: If I ask you to think of the safest, lowest crime, most technologically advanced country in the world, which country comes to mind? Next question: Which country is having the most pronounced 'sex recession'? The correlation is amazingly strong.
It's apparent that women did not evolve a powerful attraction to men (at least compared to the other way around). Until modern society, the species likely propagated on a combination of rape (not implying that's a good thing for any mainstream media lying sacks of shit that may be reading) and women sexually submitting to men for resources and protection. Create a society where protection is largely unnecessary and women can easily live on the resources they earn for themselves, and you get a society where women feel so little incentive to pair bond with men that half of them devote no time or effort to the pursuit. Men will always be thirsty; it's in our DNA; but women's desire for men is conditioned on the environment. That's why a female 6 can have hundreds of male 6-and-above suitors willing to drag their balls across broken glass to be with her if she'd just put herself out there, but most girls don't even bother taking advantage of this market because "meh too much effort." They're not swimming in a sea of dick that magically appeared before them. They just don't feel the raw desire like we do.
Great post, but I'd like to add something to it. What's being left out of the discussion is that women never historically pursued men. They were pursued.
So, if women aren't getting sex (or dates), the reason only has partially to do with them already having resources. The reason might be men aren't asking as much. Or as early. Therefore, young relationships aren't forming.
Most sex happens in relationships. Back in the Reagan Era, people started relationships young because they married far younger. Therefore, people had more sex at ages 16-25 because they were already down the road to being full adults and getting married.
We know what happened next. Helicopter parents. The extension of teen-hood into people's thirties. Women keeping their "gal pals" around as if they were still in high school. Men playing video games like they were still in middle school.
These are all stereotypes, but stereotypes are based on truths. You can't expect to be having sex on a regular basis if you're still stuck in perpetual adolescence.
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A few weeks ago, a newbie on this thread accused me of making up fictional stories about my own teenage sexual experiences. I didn't take it as an insult because I actually see his point. From the vantage point of our culture today, rampant screwing by teens DOES seem like fiction.
But, back when you married your high school sweetheart, young sex was the thing. Why? Because YOUNG LOVE and YOUNG RELATIONSHIPS were the thing.
Here is what I observe looking at then vs. now.
When I was about 16, I remember my folks wondering why I wasn't "going steady" with anyone, like they were when they were my age. They saw it as an essential part of growing up. When I did start dating someone seriously and sex entered the picture, their advice was "use protection till you're married."
In other words, by our late teens, my folks considered my girlfriend and me proto-adults.
These days, my brothers have kids who are teens and tweens. They have the complete opposite attitude. They see their children as "bigger kids" and gasp at the thought of them even dating. They see dating as "getting in the way" of the over-scheduled, mile-a-minute, college-focused lives of these kids.
What was my schedule like at that age? Empty. My life was like the Ramones song "I Just Wanna Have Something To Do." When I got a girlfriend you can bet we both found something to do with those empty hours we had to fill (heh) as latch-key high school kids.
Conclusion: You can't expect young people to have sex if everyone involved views them as still kids, including the young people themselves.