Posted on 09/03/2017 11:34:00 AM PDT by EdnaMode
Thanks to cheap sex, marriage may be doomed.
The share of Americans ages 25-34 who are married dropped 13 percentage points from 2000 to 2014. A new book by sociologist Mark Regnerus blames this declining rate on how easy it is for men to get off.
Regnerus calls it “cheap sex,” an economic term meant to describe sex that has very little cost in terms of time or emotional investment, giving it little value.
Regnerus bases his ideas, in part, on the work of British social theorist Anthony Giddens, who argued that the pill isolated sex from marriage and children. Add online pornography and dating sites to the mix and you don’t even need relationships.
The result is “two overlapping (but distinctive) markets, one for sex and one for marriage, with a rather large territory in between comprised of significant relationships of varying commitment and duration,” Regnerus writes in “Cheap Sex: The Transformation of Men, Marriage, and Monogamy” (Oxford University Press).
In generations past, women generally made men wait until marriage to have sex. To get a wife (and, therefore, sex), men had to be clean and presentable and have a good job. This, Regnerus reasons, gave men all the motivation they needed to become respectable members of society.
Now with porn on-demand and greater reproductive freedom, sex is a commodity available at any time. This has left men with little motivation for marriage, writes Regnerus, who cites demographer Steven Ruggles’ prediction that one of every three people in their 20s will never marry.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Plus more and more, lesbian-like behavior is being portrayed as ideal for women.
The primary reason men and women do not marry is they neither love the LORD nor keep His commandments. Everything else is subsequent collateral damage.
“If you truly love someone you will wait.”
Very true; very good point.
Read Galatians 3:28 and get back in posting please.
The wimmin-haters need to get a caucus designation here so that we wimmin can’t comment. Check out the guy who thinks Muslims handle women well! He’s a pip.
These days, apparently, one doesn't have to choose.
I didn’t know prices were down. Marriage is a very expensive time consuming way to have sex.
As my wife would say, “For every skank piece of bread, there's a skank piece of cheese to go with it.”
The one food most responsible for shutting down the sex drive....
Wedding Cake
For a few years I went to Parents Without Partners dances.
The women that didn’t leave alone had a high propensity for the cowboy/truck driver/convict types. “Nice” guys usually went home alone.
Yes and second it.
This trend has been ramping up for the past 50 years or so.
It’s one of the many reasons America along with most other nations will be utterly destroyed by God very soon.
I find it ironic that North Korea is saber rattling their arsenal while we do nothing. Biblically speaking, many nations were destroyed over night. With the STD rates well over 50% in “young” Americans, you can see the writing on the wall with where this nation is going.
Au contraire, mon frere, women have a civilizing effect.
Start hanging out at the gyms
Mothers and Ankles.
Check out the the mother 1st if you can and ankles. Like a puppies paws, she will grow into them.
Beware
>>>The problem here is Biblical. The Bible tells us in Genesis that woman will do everything in her power to attempt to usurp Biblical authority from the man.<<<
Where do you find this?
Cant take the truth can ya sow? Everyone here knows who the bitter one is...you...you YOU! :) I’m as happy as a clam, a bearded clam. :)
You better run along sweetheart. Unless you need more spanking.
Now run to the mods to protect you like you always do.
Well, I called it right. A bitter woman-hating pig. We certainly have a select group here.
Mail-order concubines are a realistic solution for wimmin-haters because the American man placing the order has so much leverage over imported nooky. And, if things don’t work out, you can always return her to the pound.
“Mail-order concubines are a realistic solution for wimmin-haters because the American man placing the order has so much leverage over imported nooky. And, if things don’t work out, you can always return her to the pound.”
Either that or the woman are simply BETTER there, at least on average.
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