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In a specific cohort lets say age 18-35 - is the only thing that matters for this study "access" to women not how many women a man can married? Wonder what the
by ap3 11y ago
In a specific cohort lets say age 18-35 - is the only thing that matters for this study "access" to women not how many women a man can married?
Wonder what the polygamy male-female ratio is compared to current societies with skewed ratios (CN / IN)?
- beccasanchez 11y agoBy "access" are you just referring to prostitution?
- dragonwriter 11y ago> In a specific cohort lets say age 18-35 - is the only thing that matters for this study "access" to women not how many women a man can married? No. What seems to matter in the study is whether men have acceptable marriage prospects. (It'd be interesting to see, in that context, whether permitting same-sex marriage reinforces the effect observed and further reduces the same problems. It'd also be interesting to see, as marriage itself becomes less of an expectation, whether the effect is more from men being married -- in which case denormalizing marriage would be expected to reverse the benefits -- or whether the effect is more from men not being alienated by being unable to meet a social expectation of marriage -- in which case denormalizing marriage would be expected to reinforce the benefits.)