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The author suggests the same interpretations in more general terms: "Another idea is that smarter people are more risk averse, and delaying these activities is
by rwolf 17y ago
The author suggests the same interpretations in more general terms:
"Another idea is that smarter people are more risk averse, and delaying these activities is a byproduct of enhanced concerns about unwanted pregnancy and disease. While not avoiding sexual behaviors, per se, they are just less likely to seek it out or consent to it for fear of the potential consequences.
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Another idea, consistent with popular media portrayals of geeks and nerds (males at least), is that intelligent people actually want to have sex, but are simply less likely or unable to obtain willing partners because they are disproportionately viewed as unattractive or undesirable as partners."
edit: this comment is not meant to support your claims, only to suggest your claims are redundant to HNers who read the article.
- pwnstigator 17y agoI think it's similar to "Why Nerds are Unpopular". In my parents' day, "finding a husband/wife" wasn't something most people had to make an active effort in order to do. It happened fairly naturally. So smart people paired off at a similar rate to everyone else. In the post-"Game" world, wherein breaking through womens' defenses and attracting them requires learning a bag of cheap sales tricks, the big losers are the people who don't learn them. These are the dumb, who are unable, and the smart nerds, who can't be bothered because they find childish social games uninteresting.
- wallflower 17y ago> In the post-"Game" world, wherein breaking through womens' defenses and attracting them requires learning a bag of cheap sales tricks The entire industry of pick up technology is based on the premise that there may be a technique that can successfully attract a woman. Wheras, in real life, there is no magic technique - it's all about confidence and putting youself out there, taking a risk/taking the lead. What the pickup artists are really marketing is protecting the guy's ego - e.g. I wasn't rejected - it was the approach/technique. Which, as we all know, is false marketing.
- pwnstigator 17y agoThe entire industry of pick up technology is based on the premise that there may be a technique that can successfully attract a woman. It's not that simple, just as there isn't one "magic trick" that can close a sale. It's a complex set of skills that has to be learned over years. On the other hand, some guys are able to feast because they've mastered a bag of cheap tricks, and there are a lot more men dying to be like them.
- rwolf 17y agoI find your use of the terms "close a sale" and "feast" in this context disturbing.
- pwnstigator 17y agoYou should. I'm not sugarcoating the ugly, ruined world that supposed "sexual modernism" has brought us to. I am all for the right of gays to marry, legalized abortion, and 95 percent of the feminist platform. The problem is that we now have a generation of women who feel "empowered" to "try out" a few of the scumbag men that, in previous generations, they wouldn't have dared be seen with. That hurts almost everyone.
- foldr 17y agoHow outrageous that women should feel empowered to sleep with people of whom you disapprove. If only they had the sense to ask your opinion first!
- pwnstigator 17y agoThat clearly doesn't scale. On the other hand, it's a better world when people behave sexually in a manner that is consistent with their public morality. That means that they don't sleep with people they wouldn't be proud to be seen with by their parents, family, and friends and to call a boyfriend or girlfriend.
- foldr 17y ago>breaking through womens' defenses I think this metaphor may be your problem.