Seems like someone needs to read this again: http://xkcd.com/552/ http://xkcd.com/552/ People consuming more porn is a more likely a symptom of what's going on

Seems like someone needs to read this again: http://xkcd.com/552/ http://xkcd.com/552/ People consuming more porn is a more likely a symptom of what's going on rather than the cause. As whatever forces cause people to be less likely to get married it creates a larger market for porn that the industry is more than happy to supply in greater quantities. What forces are causing people to be less likely to get married? I can speculate but I suspect it's highly multifaceted. I doubt there's one thing that's largely to blame but more of a death by a thousand papercuts kind of situation. 1. Housing is a bigger commitment 2. Job security is less available making buying real estate less attractive 3. Expectations of what should happen once you get married aren't necessarily realistic 4. Ending a marriage is highly speculative and non-negotiable (a judge says what goes and that's it) and can have lifelong or very long-lasting consequences financially 5. There's a lot less societal pressure to get married to have kids from a moral perspective 6. The economic incentive for a woman to get married so she can stay home to raise kids has largely disappeared as pay equality has largely arrived (so has the notion that it's what a woman should do). It's not 100% across the board but women don't work for 30% of what men do, meaning that marriage might only bring a marginal improvement in financial circumstances. 7. Child support being completely unrelated to marriage means that women can choose not to settle for a man they once liked/loved but who isn't their ideal partner. I'm not saying that any of these factors are good or bad or just or unjust. I suspect that there are 20 more factors that I couldn't think up in the last 10 minutes.