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Cheap Sex: The Transformation of Men, Marriage, and Monogamy

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Sex is cheap. Coupled sexual activity has transform more widely to be had than ever. Cheap sex has been made conceivable by two technologies that have little to do with every other – the Pill and high-quality pornography – and its distribution made more efficient by a third technological innovation, online dating. Together, they drive down the price of real sex, and in turn slow the development of love, make fidelity more challenging, sexual malleability more common, and have even taken a toll on men’s marriageability.

Cheap Sex takes readers on an extended tour within the American mating market, and highlights key patterns that characterize young adults’ experience these days, including the timing of first sex in relationships, overlapping partners, frustrating returns on their relational investments, and a failure to link future goals like marriage with how they navigate their current relationships. Drawing upon several large nationally-representative surveys, in-person interviews with 100 Women and men, and the assertions of scholars ranging from evolutionary psychologists to gender theorists, what emerges is a story about social change, technological breakthroughs, and unintended consequences. Women and men have not fundamentally changed, but their unions have. No longer playing a supporting role in relationships, sex has emerged as a central priority in relationship development and continuation. But get to the bottom of the layers, and it’s obvious that the emergence of “industrial sex” is far more a reflection of men’s interests than women’s.

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