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Cheap dates: How the ‘price’ of sex has dropped to record lows.
The Virginian ^ | 9/26/2011 | Moneyrunner

Posted on 09/26/2011 6:25:21 PM PDT by moneyrunner

In today’s lousy economy, men can take comfort in knowing that there is one sought-after good that is becoming steadily more affordable: sex.

Regnerus likens the price of sex to the housing market. Too many foreclosures in one community, and the price of neighboring homes start to plummet. This is why single women in New York sometimes feel as though sex on the first date is a given: According to the market, it is.

“Every sex act is part of a ‘pricing’ of sex for subsequent relationships,” Regnerus said. “If sex has been very easy to get for a particular young man for many years and over the course of multiple relationships, what would eventually prompt him to pay a lot for it in the future -- that is, committing to marry?”

Did you answer, “Love”? You’re adorable.

“Sexual strategies for making men ‘fall in love’ typically backfire, because men don’t often work like that,” Regnerus says.


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Society
KEYWORDS: sex
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To: moneyrunner

Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?


21 posted on 09/26/2011 6:48:20 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: ClearCase_guy
Perhaps feminism hasn't really been very good for women.

I think Dr. Laura said it - Women's lib hasn't freed women. Its freed men from their responsibilities to women.

22 posted on 09/26/2011 6:49:45 PM PDT by PGR88 (I'm so open-minded my brains fell out)
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To: moneyrunner

Probably lots of nice looking gals out there that took lots of classes for a worthless degree that have lots of student loan debt to pay off. It’s a ‘sugar daddy’s’ market......


23 posted on 09/26/2011 6:51:21 PM PDT by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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To: moneyrunner

Lies! Lies!


24 posted on 09/26/2011 6:55:58 PM PDT by RichInOC (Palin 2012: The Perfect Storm.)
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To: moneyrunner

Women’s liberation was invented by a man.

Pray for America


25 posted on 09/26/2011 6:56:12 PM PDT by bray (Sarah is hated by the establishment of both Parties. Winner!)
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To: moneyrunner

I don’t understand the continuing stigma against prostitutes when girls/women are giving it out for free by the boatloads.

Prostitutes at least are smart enough to get $$$ for it.


26 posted on 09/26/2011 6:57:07 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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To: KoRn

Probably a lot less men with money too. The demographic trend is women making more than men. Now they have to consider guys who make less money than they do.


27 posted on 09/26/2011 6:58:24 PM PDT by Hugin ("A man'll usually tell you his bad intentions if you listen and let yourself hear it"--- Open Range)
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To: PGR88

Dr. Laura was right. Including on my point that prostitutes are smarter than “normal” women these days.


28 posted on 09/26/2011 7:04:42 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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To: wetgundog

Amen! The slut movement began in the early 1900’s and continued on, at least till Obama’s mama. Then “Hollywood, yes it’s Hollywood”, that legitimized the c rap which has also been embraced by the Degenecrat Party, NAGS etc. Methinks Joe McCarthy was right, example the Commie hunt in Hollywood.


29 posted on 09/26/2011 7:08:34 PM PDT by Tuketu (Socialize the Legal System. Then we are all equal before the law.)
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To: Revolting cat!

Bologna is the most reliably pro-communist city in Italy.


30 posted on 09/26/2011 7:15:28 PM PDT by Castlebar
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To: moneyrunner
“Sexual strategies for making men ‘fall in love’ typically backfire, because men don’t often work like that,

I'd say that falls under "It depends", depending whether such a thing might happen. The route to the heart is not necessarily through the stomach as I recall the old adage went.........

31 posted on 09/26/2011 7:20:36 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: moneyrunner
“Sexual strategies for making men ‘fall in love’ typically backfire, because men don’t often work like that,” Regnerus says.

The hypocrisy in this statement is stunning. Who here, exactly, is the implied party using "sexual strategies for making men ‘fall in love’" that is "backfiring"?

Women.

Yet - "men don’t often work like that,” Regnerus says.

LOL - MEN don't? Seems to me that using a "sexual strategy to make a man fall in love" isn't exactly... how to put it... LOVING, on the part of the WOMEN, now is it?

Jesus put up with a lot. The only time he let himself lose it and get violent was over hypocrisy.

It's a lesson worth contemplating.

32 posted on 09/26/2011 7:34:08 PM PDT by Talisker (History will show the Illuminati won the ultimate Darwin Award.)
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To: libertarian27

Lorena Bobbett?


33 posted on 09/26/2011 7:48:52 PM PDT by reg45 (I'm not angry that Lincoln freed the slaves. I'm angry that Franklin Roosevelt bought them back.)
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To: moneyrunner
Oh, that's not true. Women tell me "I wouldn't sleep with you for a million dollars!" all the time.


Wait a minute. That didn't sound right. Don't hit the Post button. DON'T HIT THE POST BUT

34 posted on 09/26/2011 7:53:50 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: PGR88
yup, STD's have been free forever... but some still insist on paying for it
35 posted on 09/26/2011 8:06:25 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: Grunthor

***Getting married to have sex is like buying a 747 to get free peanuts. If all you want is free peanuts, there is a lot more cost efficient ways of getting them.***

I firmly believe that if a young man is ready and willing to get married, he’ll find someone pronto.

If he’s not, there is nothing in this world that will force, cajole or otherwise persuade him.

I do wish that men wouldn’t play with women’s hearts the way they do. Surely they can see that most women *are* looking for a real relationship?


36 posted on 09/26/2011 8:17:14 PM PDT by Marie (Rock you like a Herman-CAIN!)
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To: GOPJ

My favorite story from world lit years ago!

All feminism has done is drive a wedge between the sexes, further broken down the modern family by robbing it of it’s caregiver, and blazed a path for the blurring of gender roles.


37 posted on 09/26/2011 8:26:47 PM PDT by nurseDani
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To: nurseDani
As a long time observer of the war between the sexes (thanks to Gloria Steinem, molly Yard, et. al.) I have found women in my age group were confused and bitter and hateful towards men because they were taught they were “oppressed”. And so this “oppressed” sex decided to get their revenge upon their oppressor and they did it by having lawyers and politicians grant them extraordinary “rights”.

Quite bluntly, I do not understand how it benefits a man to get married in such a hostile, poisoned atmosphere. Both parties have a 50-50 chance of getting things wrong. If this happens early on, then a no fault divorce makes sense.

However, if you have kids when the dung hits the fan blades and you are a guy, your life is effectively over. There will be custody fights, visitation fights, fights over child support, fights over alimony (in some cases), fights over community property and pension distribution, and false orders of protection (usually used vindictively by the wife against the husband).

Fortunately, I chose wisely (and married later in life when I was slightly more mature and centered). I watched, horrified as friends I'd known for years went through all the fighting and mutually inflicted pain of divorces. I also watched divorce attorneys get rich off other people's misery while they stoked the fires to milk their clients for even more money. It was despicable.

To the young studs out there I'd only offer two bits of advice:

1. No matter how “smokin’ hot!” she is, there's always some other guy whose putting up with her crap.
2. If it comes down to the “smokin’ hot” babe versus the Ferrari of your dreams; bottom line is the car's cheaper.

38 posted on 09/27/2011 5:11:04 AM PDT by MasterGunner01 (To err is human; to forgive is not our policy. -- SEAL Team SIX)
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To: Marie
I do wish that men wouldn’t play with women’s hearts the way they do. Surely they can see that most women *are* looking for a real relationship?

Maybe that's the way it was once. I don't know. But it is not that way any longer for the vast majority of women. Feminism has so poisoned the culture and the minds of women that they now no longer have any respect for themselves or for men, and any "relationship" they might be looking for would not be with a decent man. If you're really curious as to the true nature of things now, simply ask Freeper men how far they've gotten with women in the last 10 or 20 years by being the nice guy, the hard-working Joe Six-Pack. You'll be surprised.
39 posted on 09/27/2011 5:17:55 AM PDT by fr_freak
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To: MasterGunner01

Why by the cow when the milk is free?


40 posted on 09/27/2011 5:18:23 AM PDT by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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