I'm only just into the introduction and I am very engaged. The intro brings up some very interesting arguments. - Contraception is damaging to society - Massi

I'm only just into the introduction and I am very engaged. The intro brings up some very interesting arguments. - Contraception is damaging to society - Massive redistribution of wealth and power to men - Suggestions that taxing men and subsidising women and children will fix it I'll update this as I read through the article. > Their graph, below, shows that, for example, the percentage of Americans married at age 30 fell from roughly 85 percent in 1960 to roughly 60 percent in 2000. Assuming that sexual activity has not decreased over the same period (clearly a safe assumption), this implies increased participation in the sex market over the same period. I think this may be a flawed statement. Millenials are having less sex than previous generations: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/social-issues/there-isnt-really-anything-magical-about-it-why-more-millennials-are-putting-off-sex/2016/08/02/e7b73d6e-37f4-11e6-8f7c-d4c723a2becb_story.html?utm_term=.bd7fc81479b0 https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/social-issues/there-isn... > It may be biologically inevitable that relatively more men will populate the sex market and relatively more women will populate the marriage market. It's a little crude but biologically we're built that way. > The average age at which men exit the sex market and enter the marriage market is higher than the average age at which women make the same decision. I was going to make the argument that it's normally just a couple of years but... > This, in turn, means that at each point in time, more men will inhabit the sex market than women. Correspondingly, more women will inhabit the marriage market than men. So there's an imbalance between the two markets. I agree with this - take a look at Tinder or any other hook up style app. Heaps of men, comparatively less women. The result is women getting hundreds of Matches a day where most guys will be lucky to get one. Oh and vice versa. Women trying to find a man that is marriage material is as scarce as men trying to find a casual sexual partner. Actually the marriage market even more scarce than the sexual market. Once a man is taken off the market through marriage then the man pool becomes even smaller, making the ratio even worse! I'll continue making more points in other posts.