Peter Pan Syndrome and Sexual Economics

[Valmy]

CC already knew that Valmy wasn't saying he didn't think about sex.

Well he hid it well because he said I was saying exactly that.

[garbon]

CC already knew that Valmy wasn't saying he didn't think about sex.

Well he hid it well because he said I was saying exactly that.

That's how you pull off a troll, right?

[The Brain]

CC already knew that Valmy wasn't saying he didn't think about sex.

Well he hid it well because he said I was saying exactly that.

That's who you pull off a troll, right?

I don't understand anymore.

[garbon]

Horrifying how backwards things were back in the day.
These days you don't even agree to go out with a girl till you've had sex, back in the day you had to marry them without a test drive. brr.

I'd suggest that how you do things (or see others around you do things) don't accurately reflect what people in general do.  I'd even generalize that to most scenarios - not just dating.

[garbon]

CC already knew that Valmy wasn't saying he didn't think about sex.

Well he hid it well because he said I was saying exactly that.

That's who you pull off a troll, right?

I don't understand anymore.

I've fixed it for you.

[Josquius]

Horrifying how backwards things were back in the day.
These days you don't even agree to go out with a girl till you've had sex, back in the day you had to marry them without a test drive. brr.

I'd suggest that how you do things (or see others around you do things) don't accurately reflect what people in general do.  I'd even generalize that to most scenarios - not just dating.

No sex before marriage people are very much in the minority in Europe and Japan at least.

[Tamas]

If you took this article seriously, you must think that poor people didn't have sex before the 21st century. Ridicoulous

Also: the "princess rides the stable boy" (then marries the prince) is the most cliched common romantic story since eternity.

And the examples could be continued. It's bollocks.

[The Larch]

I also realized afterwards that this is a contribution to a symposium, not a full blown paper, so the level of scrutiny goes down a couple of notches. It kinda improved a lot by the end, but some sections of the middle seem quite prejudiced against women for me.

What did you find to be particularly prejudiced against women? What did you like?

IMO it severely underrates women's contribution to society, it paints them with a huge brush claming that they're little more than parasitic freeriders, which again IMO is outstandingly wrong. My hunch is that they're trying to be controversial on purpose, though.

I liked the description of sexual and gender dynamics in terms of supply and demand, what they call sexual economics, which seems quite thought provoking.

[CountDeMoney]

I liked the description of sexual and gender dynamics in terms of supply and demand, what they call sexual economics, which seems quite thought provoking.

Nothing we didn't already figure out for ourselves in junior high school.

[Razgovory]

If you took this article seriously, you must think that poor people didn't have sex before the 21st century. Ridicoulous

Also: the "princess rides the stable boy" (then marries the prince) is the most cliched common romantic story since eternity.

And the examples could be continued. It's bollocks.

Do all Hungarians confuse fairy tales with sociology?

[crazy canuck]

If you took this article seriously, you must think that poor people didn't have sex before the 21st century. Ridicoulous

Also: the "princess rides the stable boy" (then marries the prince) is the most cliched common romantic story since eternity.

And the examples could be continued. It's bollocks.

Do all Hungarians confuse fairy tales with sociology?

Probabaly.  It is also interesting to note those for whome this article hits close to home.

[Razgovory]

I don't work or have much sex, so it ain't me.

[garbon]

Horrifying how backwards things were back in the day.
These days you don't even agree to go out with a girl till you've had sex, back in the day you had to marry them without a test drive. brr.

I'd suggest that how you do things (or see others around you do things) don't accurately reflect what people in general do.  I'd even generalize that to most scenarios - not just dating.

No sex before marriage people are very much in the minority in Europe and Japan at least.

Which says nothing in regards to must have sex before date as you posit it.

[crazy canuck]

yeah, but I am not sure what this analysis has to do with that

Reducing it all about trying to get sex.  It seems like I had alot more crap going on with me when I was struggling to grow up besides that.

are you guys really that dense or really that inept with women? 

Of course there is a lot going on.  But if anyone here didnt have a huge sex drive when they were in their late teens early 20s they were outliers.  Pretty simple point.
If you were not thinking about sex as a young man you were indeed an outlier.

I think Valmy's point was that he was thinking about other things, too, not that he wasn't thinking about sex.

And I tend to agree with him.  Sure, when I was in school, I wanted to be able to afford a cool car and stuff, and partly that was because a cool car helps you get chicks, but, still, I wanted the cool car and other cool stuff for its value aside from being a chick magnet.

[Martinus]

I would actually say that money matters much more today than, say, 200 years ago, when it comes to getting a good looking partner.

At least in a class society, poor guys could hope to marry a pretty girl within their own class. In a classless society, there is no stigma for a rich upper class guy to marry a poor lower class (but pretty) girl so money matters even more