at Slate (and I think Regnerus could mention both a) greater acceptance of out-of-wedlock childbearing and b) incarceration rates):
We keep hearing that young men are failing to adapt to contemporary life. Their financial prospects are impaired—earnings for 25- to 34-year-old men have fallen by 20 percent since 1971. Their college enrollment numbers trail women’s: Only 43 percent of American undergraduates today are men. Last year, women made up the majority of the work force for the first time. And yet there is one area in which men are very much in charge: premarital heterosexual relationships.
When attractive women will still bed you, life for young men, even those who are floundering, just isn’t so bad. This isn’t to say that all men direct the course of their relationships. Plenty don’t. But what many young men wish for—access to sex without too many complications or commitments—carries the day. If women were more fully in charge of how their relationships transpired, we’d be seeing, on average, more impressive wooing efforts, longer relationships, fewer premarital sexual partners, shorter cohabitations, and more marrying going on. Instead, according to the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (which collects data well into adulthood), none of these things is occurring. Not one.The terms of contemporary sexual relationships favor men and what they want in relationships, not just despite the fact that what they have to offer has diminished, but in part because of it. And it’s all thanks to supply and demand.
October 31st, 2012 | 4:38 am
Perhaps, there is some truth in the French saying that, whether a man marries or not, he regrets his decision.
And women?
October 31st, 2012 | 7:35 am
Again, another symptom of our confusion in matters of heart and faith ; the good women would cultivate appropriate devotion , esp. to The Father and the power to remain chaste , through devotion to holy saints , esp. Bl.Mother and St.Joseph , trusting that at the right time , they would find a good enough husband .
Meanwhile, we all can repent on behalf of all the men that have not been born and done away with , through the evils of aborion and contraception and all the women who help to make men into less than themselves , through immorality , since promiscuity make the persons have indirect, thus lying relationship with all the others they have had relationships with !
Wonder too if the built up massive , hidden anger in women , over the areas of abortion and contraception of being used as sex animals , is cursing the men , into becoming the bad fruit , who do not know how to be real men of joy , in the strenght of love, who want to commit and protect the women and family !
Lord have mercy – esp. on those who advocate more of such evils upon us, as health care !
October 31st, 2012 | 1:01 pm
Supply and demand – hadn’t formulated that before. So True.
If the supply were do decrease, due to retention/conversion of the “free/cheap labor”, would the demand change for the other supply, the chaste woman?
Women don’t seem to believe that.
November 9th, 2012 | 2:50 pm
Hi Eve,
Thanks for writing; just added you to my RSS reader.
peace,
Albert
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