{"id":11406,"date":"2011-10-01T00:07:56","date_gmt":"2011-10-01T04:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=11406"},"modified":"2018-09-18T10:37:54","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T14:37:54","slug":"esr-on-sexual-repression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/10\/01\/esr-on-sexual-repression\/","title":{"rendered":"ESR on sexual repression"},"content":{"rendered":"

ESR<\/a> looks at a recent New York Post<\/em> article on the price of sex, and comes to a few depressing conclusions:<\/p>\n

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The New York Post<\/em> has an interesting article up on the price of sex. Summary; more women are giving it up sooner. Between a shortage of men who are marry-up material, competition from other women, and porn, withholding sex to get commitment is no longer a workable strategy Tellingly the article says \u201cthose who don\u2019t discount sex say they can\u2019t seem to get anyone to \u2018pay\u2019 their higher price. Consequently, younger women are doing an awful lot of first-date or even no-date fucking, and the marriage rate is steadily dropping.<\/p>\n

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The first difficult thing to accept, after the sexual revolution, is this: sexual repression and the double standard weren\u2019t arbitrary forms of cruelty that societies ended up with by accident. They were functional adaptations. By raising the clearing price that women charged for sex, they actually increased female bargaining power and raised the marriage rate.<\/p>\n

Most people can process that one without wincing. But this next one is a hot potato: the ideology of sexual equality made the problem a lot worse in two different ways. The obvious one was that it encouraged women to believe they could and should be able to act like men without negative consequences — including rising to male levels of promiscuity. The less obvious, but perhaps in the long run more damaging consequence, was that it collided with hypergamy.<\/p>\n

Women are hypergamous. They want to marry men who are bigger, stronger, higher-status, a bit older, and a bit brighter than they are. This is massively confirmed by statistics on actual marriages; only the \u201ca bit brighter\u201d part is even controversial, and most of that controversy is ideological posturing.<\/p>\n

OK, so what happens when women get educated, achieve economic equality, etcetera? Their pool of eligible hypergamic targets shrinks; the princess marrying the swineherd is a fairytale precisely because it\u2019s so rare. More women seeking hypergamy from a higher baseline means the competition for eligible males is more intense, and womens\u2019 ability to withold sex vanishes even supposing they want to. Thus, college campuses today, and plunging marriages rate tomorrow.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ESR looks at a recent New York Post article on the price of sex, and comes to a few depressing conclusions: The New York Post has an interesting article up on the price of sex. Summary; more women are giving it up sooner. Between a shortage of men who are marry-up material, competition from other […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,66,10],"tags":[198,1235,139,255,43],"class_list":["post-11406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-health-science","category-liberty","tag-equalrights","tag-esr","tag-psychology","tag-sexuality","tag-women"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2XY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11406"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44978,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11406\/revisions\/44978"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}