Cheap Sex Makes Men Give Up On Marriage?

Old idea, new idea:

Thanks to cheap sex, marriage may be doomed.

The share of Americans ages 25-34 who are married dropped 13 percentage points from 2000 to 2014. A new book by sociologist Mark Regnerus blames this declining rate on how easy it is for men to get off.

Regnerus calls it “cheap sex,” an economic term meant to describe sex that has very little cost in terms of time or emotional investment, giving it little value.

Regnerus bases his ideas, in part, on the work of British social theorist Anthony Giddens, who argued that the pill isolated sex from marriage and children. Add online pornography and dating sites to the mix and you don’t even need relationships.

The result is “two overlapping (but distinctive) markets, one for sex and one for marriage, with a rather large territory in between comprised of significant relationships of varying commitment and duration,” Regnerus writes in “Cheap Sex: The Transformation of Men, Marriage, and Monogamy” (Oxford University Press).

In generations past, women generally made men wait until marriage to have sex. To get a wife (and, therefore, sex), men had to be clean and presentable and have a good job. This, Regnerus reasons, gave men all the motivation they needed to become respectable members of society.

Now with porn on-demand and greater reproductive freedom, sex is a commodity available at any time. This has left men with little motivation for marriage, writes Regnerus, who cites demographer Steven Ruggles’ prediction that one of every three people in their 20s will never marry.

Regnerus is good people, but without r/K he is just a little behind the curve.

They are linked, but in a yin/yang fashion, by r/K. Societies become promiscuous when they turn r, and promiscuity can drive the change to r. r-societies will not be big on monogamy or family, so marriage rates will go down too. Truth be told, marriage rates should be even lower. There are a lot of betas now who only get married because a girl with a high notch count realizes her shelf life is running out, and she uses sex to tie down a poor sap who doesn’t realize what he is getting into. Remove that promiscuous use of sex for a purpose, and there would be even less marriage.

On the other side, take guys from the fifties, and airdrop a battalion of sluts and libraries of porn among them, and I suspect they still would have chosen wives and gotten married ultimately. It was just something they wanted, to add a little bastion of trustworthy stability and niceness to their lives.

Society was different back then. Even societal sexuality was suppressed due to the K-selection, and that suppression drive the K-selection.

r and K are a whole programming suites, designed to destroy the family.

Spread r/K Theory, because the family is the center of society