Posts Tagged ‘mating’

Another Quote About Sex

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009

Here is another illuminating quote from a woman. It supports my belief that the sexual revolution of the 1960s and the 1970s helped a small fraction of men, namely, the ones most exciting to women, while it hurt most men. Specifically, being willing to settle down and marry used to give ordinary men a way to compete against the extremely exciting men, but the bargaining value of being willing to marry has decreased, with the result that more ordinary men are going without sex and female affection.

Yes, I do know that an anectdote is worse evidence than data from a competently-designed survey. (And yes, this anecdote was written by someone hiding behind a pseudonym.) But it is probably not cost effective to find data from surveys on this topic.

So that the first sentence makes sense, let me explain that the quote is a comment on a post asserting that promiscuity and career do not in the end satisfy most women as much as marriage and children.

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Something That Taught Me Something About Women

Sunday, July 19th, 2009

This blog entry is mostly just a record of the idiosyncratic evolution of my thinking.

The following passage taught me something — and confirmed something else — about women. The author is an American woman with a high-powered career.

[That reminds me of] when I dated guys a lot farther along in their career than I was. It was exciting. They knew a lot more about sex than I did, but you equalize on that pretty fast. And then, what’s left in the inequality department is career stuff. And I could always figure out how to get stuff from them.

It was exciting to be the young girl who the older guys want to help, and date. At the same time. I was never sure how much I wanted either offering, but I knew that together, they were intoxicating.

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