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Previously a person's mate selection was very geographically constrained. Everyone wanted to date the most attractive person in (school, town, neighborhood). T
by test6554 7y ago
Previously a person's mate selection was very geographically constrained. Everyone wanted to date the most attractive person in (school, town, neighborhood).
The internet has broadened the pool of potential mates beyond mere geography. Which makes finding a match easier, but makes all the matches nearby seem less desirable, and makes all the long-distance matches difficult. Particularly on a constrained budget.
- feministincel 7y agoHard disagree, most people aren’t looking outside of a pretty narrow radius on the apps.
- masonic 7y agoParent said "mates" rather than hookups.
- claudiawerner 7y agoI always cringe when I see people describe human relationships in biological terms, it hints at a feeling of reductiveness, or the applicability of all biological models to human behavior without taking into consideration massive societal differences and the change in attitudes and the emergence of new sexuality (see Japan's hikkikomori) even of the past few hundred years. It's the same sort of "analysis" that uses "breeding" to refer to when people have children. To top it off, the people using these terms to describe human phenomena are likely not even qualified in biological sciences, never mind anthropology, sociology or psychology.
- madez 7y agoHow do you know that?