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Are you talking about prostitution? That's a sexual marketplace. This article isn't talking about people buying and selling sexual encounters. People deciding t
by malcolmgreaves 7y ago
Are you talking about prostitution? That's a sexual marketplace. This article isn't talking about people buying and selling sexual encounters. People deciding to have sex with one another doesn't mean that there exists any sort of bartering or trade. The overwhelming majority of sex is because it feels good and all people involved want to feel good. Living in your parent's basement isn't sexy, but not because one isn't rich, but because it indicates that one cannot make it in the real world. Kids live with their parents and no one wants to have a relationship with someone stuck in a child's mentality. Or even remotely resembling it. And you completely ignore homosexuality and the fact that now, more than in the past, is it possible for one to come out and not be eviscerated. A likely explaination of the same data is that more women are having sex with one another.
- istorical 7y agoMarkets while maybe feeling crass is the term used in sciences like sociology to study dating and relationships from a statistical POV.
- anongraddebt 7y agoOne would think the roughly 10% gap between men and women (mentioned in the article) could not be explained by more frequent homosexual sexual encounters if it is assumed that homosexual men and women have close to the same amount of sex. It seems reasonable to assume that lesbians don't have sex at a disproportionately greater rate than gay men.
- dinodub 7y agosexual market place does not mean "prostitution". the user is most likely speaking about the sexual economy, or the mating economy, or the relationship economy if you will.
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