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This seems to indicate a winner-takes-all hierarchy emerging within the sexual market place. As the data in this article shows, fewer men are having sex than women. That would indicate a group of men have multiple female partners while a large chunk of men remain unemployed living with their parents. They’ve been selected out of the sexual market place. I don’t have time right now to dig up sources, but throughout history this has been the norm.

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This has been speculated about for a while: how the rise of online dating and hookup services (Tinder et al), in addition to the growing connected-ness over large distances, will result in a convergence of male dating pool. In essence, women are less likely to "settle" for an average dude when "above average" guys are easily reachable and available.

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.

Markets while maybe feeling crass is the term used in sciences like sociology to study dating and relationships from a statistical POV.

One 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.

sexual 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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