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Women want sex just as much as men. And they want it on the same scale as men(some people like to have sex all the time.. some less so). They make up about 50% of the population. If you are having problem finding sex with someone it's not the other genders fault; but your own.

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Your sentiment isn't consistent with the fact that it's the men who pay for sex and women who get paid for sex. This wouldn't happen if the supply and demand in the market were matched.

Edit: I interpret "want" not as "desire" but as "decide to have sex taking everything into account (desire, danger, risk, ...)"

You seem to be considering only one of the commodities involved in the exchange; if men controlled substantially more money than women, you'd expect exactly the imbalance you refer to, all other things being equal.

If all men controlled more money than all women, you're right. But if anything, men control more money than women only in average; there are poor men and rich women, but the transactions between them don't happen to the same extent as between poor women and rich men.

Even an on-average wealth imbalance would produce a paying-for, paid-for imbalance, all other things being equal between men and women.

Exactly. There is an 80/20 bro-science rule that applies to this: where 20% of the guys are having sex with considerably more women than the other 80% of guys.

So... if you want more sex, work your way to the 20%; feel for the gradient and walk uphill.

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