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> Sex is infinitely easier for women than it is men.

I think that's very wrong if for no other reason taht if all you want is unqualified sex then you can get a prostitute of which there are many more females than males, so it should by that measure alone be easier for men.

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That's illegal in most of the US. (Someone asked a cop if he knew the best places to pick up hookers. He said no, he only knew the best places to get busted for it.)

Fair enough, it's very different here.

Not sure if a prostitute is typically somebody who wants to have sex with you. But in an extremely nitpicking way we could say you are right (for a definition of sex as "putting your penis into somebodies body orifice"). I don't think that is what the OP meant, though (besides, there are male prostitutes, too, so at most you get to "even").

Am... prostitution is a great example, but it's proving exactly the opposite. If men want to get sex, they can pay a prostitute. On the other hand, if a woman wants sex, she can just go to a bar and find 10+ willing suitors. Or become a prostitute and get paid.

I'm not sure how you got from "there is greater demand for female prostitutes" to "women have a harder time getting laid".

Here (Austria) if you are female and you want to pay for sex you will have a hard time finding it. From what I understand, most male prostitues are actually offering gay sex.

No, in the market of instant sexual gratification, the supply of heterosexual males so far outstrips the demand for heterosexual males that the price is effectively $0. This could be a surfeit of supply or a dearth of demand, but it implies near total lack of demand, because usually supply reaches an equilibrium with non-zero demand that it never really forces prices to $0.

Why would you want to pay for sex if you can get free sex?

You are joking yourself if you think it's easier for men to get laid than women.

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