The Economics of Sex
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Thank you all for watching the video and participating in a great
discussion so far. We have annotated the video with links to some of the
research throughout, including the full resource guide (
http://bit.ly/AIreference) that contains all of the data used in this
Animate. See 1:06, 4:03, 6:38, 9:26.
why strive for marriage? Women today do not need men to financially support
us. That may be the reasen for the high divorce rate. We don’t need a man
anymore. We might want one, but it is no longer a must have.
Instead we can choose to have our own place and have many men in our
lives…
Maybe men aren’t committing because they now have higher standards for
women. Women now have to bring more to the table than sex and a college
degree. Many women today have nasty attitudes, manipulative, entitled,
lazy, cannot cook or clean, and are loose sexually. If a man chooses not to
committ, maybe you don’t meet his standards for a wife. The assumption that
all women are marriage material, good people, wholesome, and deserving of a
good husband is B.S. This video erroneously makes men look one-dimensional
only seeking sex in a relationship.
This video doesn’t even take into consideration that women also choose to
not get married as well and overlooks the same sex couples that can get
married.
Wow, this is really awful. What an outdated perception of couples,
(starting by the fact that they only consider straight couples). Woman
should raise the price of sex to have more marriages? hahaha so we are like
dogs looking for a bone? Even in case we are, better to have single people
than families based on the fact that the fathers married just to fuck the
mother, poor children.
Check out Janet Benion’s interview: “Polygamy: The Next Marriage Rights
Frontier.” Polygamy empowers women and is the only way to balance out what
is brought up in this video.
No, men are not “failing to adapt to contemporary life” what the hell this
is Hanah Rossin’s debunked joke thesis. Everyone outside that fantasy
bubble knows that women are ridiculously disadvantaged. The studies are
endless, feminists even have to make new arguments just to keep up with
that bad news. Like how men “negotiate more”. We now even know that women
are the ones bearing the brunt of the bad economy. The question is simply
can we do anything to solve this problem for women. Men are the ones
adapting to the economy. It’s made of computer nerds(male) like Mark
Zuckerberg(Male), Bill Gates(Male), Steve Jobs(male) etc. W have to do
something to HELP women, not tell ourselves useless fantasies that they are
the dominant ones now.
Yeah one minute in and I am going to pause and comment as I go with why
this is ridiculous.
*People get married less does not equal economics of sex. People get
married less for a billion reasons, besides sex. Everything is up,
education, jobs, opportunities, society has changed so much since fifty
years ago, even TEN years ago. It has little to do with sex and more to do
with society.
*”Sex as an exchange where each person gives a another person something of
themselves”, this is typical crap from advocates for absence only
education. You don’t run out of self, you don’t run out of sex (at least I
hope not!) so it’s not an exchange of self, but a sharing of a never ending
expression of affection.
*The gender normative bull shit about how men and women see sex. I know
women who have lots of sex without emotional attachments and are happy
doing so, I know men who only like to have sex in a relationship. This is
another GOOD reason why marriage rates are changing, because people are
evolving and changing from narrow minded over simplified version of their
gender.
OH GOD I AM NOT EVEN TWO MINUTES IN AND I AM LOSING IT.
*”Sex is her resource” – and he wants to buy it. I can’t even start to
explain how gross this is, like literally I can’t.
*OH JESUS THIS ANALOGY CONTINUES. Basically, if there’s no women around
you’ll have to marry one to get any (if she’s generous enough) and if
there’s lots, sure they’re all desperate and will sleep around.
*The effects of the pill have been “*deep sigh* revolutionary” – YES, isn’t
that WONDERFUL!?
*The pesticides = the pill comparison is such a joke. The “mating market”
are you FUCKING KIDDING ME.
*Men only want sex, women only want marriage. Yeah, because no man or woman
has ever had ambition outside of a partner.
*”In the past it wasn’t the patriarchy that policed women’s relation
interests, it was women” – ahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahhaha oh jesus
ahahaha
In summary, sex is a resource which women control, they are giving it away
for free but really want to get married, and now are having a lot more sex
because they have the pill, and women are policing each other making it
harder for each other. Stupid fucking women.
Men have fertility forever, and can keep having sex and then wait around
until they’ve had their fun and have their pick of the lot. Men are happy
with the stupid fucking women.
The solution: If women spoke with each other, negotiated an equal market
value (three dates? engagement ring? JUST STOP GIVING IT AWAY FOR FREE YOU
SLUT) then these problems would go away because then men will try harder.
If men will act, generally, only as well or poorly as women permit them to
act, then I suppose that means the wars throughout history can now be
blamed on women? (I’m sure there’s an exception clause lurking somewhere).
And how does one explain the sexual and relationship dynamics between gay
men? Do they only act as well as they act because of women too? How’s this
apply to modeling lesbians?
Guys, let me save you the effort of watching this shit and sumarize the
video:
b4 u sai feemayul sekshuality iz sumfing oothuh thahn a commoditee that
menz urn bye doin dis dat und da othur lemme splain u a thing.
WOOO! YEAH! SEX IS AN EXCHANGE! CONSENSUAL SEX IS TRANSACTIONAL. THERE IS
NO EMOTIONALITY IN SEX, IT’S AS COLD AS MONETARY ECONOMICS – ESPECIALLY
FROM THE VIEW POINT OF WOMEN, WHO HAVE APPARENTLY FUCKED IT ALL UP FOR
THEMSELVES RECENTLY BY VIRTUE OF THEIR ‘UNSPOKEN PACT’.
You know, understanding complex human behaviour is simple if you think
about it in overly simplified, loosely related analogous terms. Anyone
actually interested in learning about sexuality’s role in relationships
(without the sexism), turn to psychology, anthropology, sociology,
neuroscience or any other scientific practice/discipline that deals with
human and other behaviour. This is is just another great example of
religious philosophy subtly popping it’s nasty little head where none want
to see it.
Women have always been competing to have the best mate, since when did they
have each others backs?
I don’t get what’s wrong with people sometimes. This video is very
insightful, but because it challenges (and seemingly offends) both
feminists and MRA’s, people mindlessly thumbs down something that is
offering a valuable perspective to a conversation which is in all of our
interest. It isn’t advocating for anything; it is simply presenting a
theory to explain in recent trends in dating based upon statistical
evidence from online dating sites and marriage rates. Although I don’t
personally agree with everything it says nor the way it is framed, I’m not
going to thumbs down a well made video because it doesn’t coddle me and
agree with everything I already believe.
Let’s not pretend to be naive ladies, we all know women hold all of the
sexual power. Nearly every sexual encounter (excluding rape) is initiated
only after the woman consents. These days women are suffering from
diminishing returns for the access they are willingly giving to men. If
anyone could stay at the Ritz hotel, it wouldn’t be an exclusive sought
after hotel, likewise, if you let any man into your pants, you’re not
longer a desirable mate.
Nobody is telling you to stop slutting around, and nobody is shaming you
for being a slut, we are only telling you the consequences of being a slut.
Ask any man what is more desirable as a mate, a woman who sleeps around
with different guys every weekend or a woman who regards her body as a gift
to the man she loves, I’m sure the latter will always come out on top. I’m
sure women looking for a mate will answer similarly.
Before you say “I don’t care what men want in a mate!”, pump your breaks
Sally, this isn’t about you, it’s about men’s perceptions of you, right or
wrong. Just like women don’t want a man living in his parents house at 30,
men don’t want a woman who has let the football team run the train on her.
You’re free to do whatever you want, just realize that actions have
consequences.
Um, wow.
At 8:41 the vid states that if women colluded, then they could drive up the
price of sex.
I truly think we’re well past this fix. Women are *starving* for
commitment. I recently got handed my head in the economic downturn & had to
work at a retailer as a cashier.
I saw a legion of beautiful sexy young teenage/young adult women with avg
or slightly avg guys who had no personality or were shy & meek.
These women would gladly shout their ability to pay for their own goods at
the checkout (or buy his).
Not only are women handing (even sub-avg non-successful men) p*ssy as fast
as he can want it, but the women are also now provisioning for themselves
(making the p*ssy cost/free) or provisioning for *him* (making the p*ssy a
net-benefit $$ wise).
Women want a wide array of sex partners too. Yeah they want to get married,
but they are also shopping for alpha-co*k to enjoy during the meantime.
Those are the guys that are mischievious, flirty, confident and charming.
Contraception and the loosening of sexual mores for women mean that a sex
“strike” simply wouldn’t work.
This is stupid
Why do women watch porno videos to the end?
They are waiting for the wedding scene.
:)
Sorry I wasn’t listening to all the talk. I was busy being impressed by
your drawings! Very detailed and vivid! Good job!
This is all wrong. Women have the same sex drive as men!
Who will buy the cow if they get the milk for free?
Women should collude to up the market price of sex. This way men will
permanently leave the market and turn to porn. Or abstinence… and onwards
to chase their goals without the dead weight of relationships or children.
What the shit did i just watch after 4:00.
It all was a quite interesting point of view until you started blaming it
all on easy contraception.
Rednecks.
in short, we need laws that strengthen marriage and not weaken them. And I
am not about talking laws that force men into a marriage, but laws that
deal with bad actions in a relationship, from both sides: adultery and
hysteria.
This video forgets something–women don’t want to get married young.
The increasing age of first marriage isn’t just because of men. It’s hugely
because women don’t want to get married and settle down until they’re
older.