[MetaThought]

ping

[RexBeach]

Another brilliant study.

I also hear that teenage pregnancies taper off as people reach the age of 20.

Geesh.

[jazminerose]

Men don’t know how to vent properly & they definitely don’t know how to handle a break up.

Women have it figured out—we consult our board of directors, we vent, we cry, we drink wine and/or eat Hagen Das while dissecting every word he says until we exhaust ourselves.

Problem solved.

[valkyry1]

Well duhh!!

[MEGoody]

I love my husband dearly, but he is so, well, needy.

Typically men don't have the types of friendships that women have. Women can get their "emotional support" and all that from friends, but men seem to rely on their wives (or significant others).

Please understand, I'm not casting aspersions on men here. God made us different for a reason. But we are definitely different.

[Williams]

Super duh.

[central_va]

Women, 50% of the population, own 100% of the < deleted >

[hocndoc]

Yep,believing that’s how I got pregnant the first time. (That’s a joke, people.)

[The Toll]

Did they take into account the fact that if a guys acts like he doesn’t care then the girl will NEVER go away!!!

“oh....uh....yea, I’m TOTALLY in the dumps about my break up with Princess Letsjustcuddle!” I’m crying all day long!

[org.whodat]

I always liked the up and down part of a relationship. But there are a lot of positions to try.

[call meVeronica]

bump

[ottbmare]

I believe this, with some modifiers:

There are many young men who are sweet and good and sincere, and they honestly fall in love with girls. They are capable of experiencing the most ghastly hurt, and after this happens once or twice it’s extremely hard for them to recover.

There are others who, because of some deficit in their rearing or something wrong in their heads, are far less empathic; from those first few dates, they treat girls as potential conquests, and they don’t fall sincerely in love. Probably somhe ething wrong with their relationships with their parents; it’s hard to generalize. But they aren’t hurt, or aren’t hurt much.

The former group of kind, sensitive men are far, far larger. The sad thing is that when an honest young man falls in love with rotten, manipulative women, or with women who are just unsuited for him and know it and break it off, repeated heartaches may make him cynical. After our wonderful IN-justice system gets done with him in “Family Court,” he may be bitter indeed and not want anything to do with relationships.

[alexander_busek]

I agree 100% with the findings of this study.

Lengthy abstinence involves greater physical suffering for a 20-year-old man (as compared to a woman of the same age), besides any emotional suffering (reduced self-esteem stemming from rejection, social isolation, etc.) he may likewise incur.

A rejected 20-year-old man is forced to resume fishing in a pool of potential partners made up of, say, all 18- to 22-year-old women - while a typical 20-year-old woman who is rejected will suddenly find herself attracting suitors ranging in age from, say, 20 years to 45 years; that's a much bigger pool! In other words, the 20-year-old man is competing with a very large group of competitors for the affection of a small number of females. Consequently, men in their early twenties will typically suffer long dry spells to a far greater extent than women of the same age.

This phenomenon was especially pronounced at the trailing edge of the so-called "Baby Boom," when men age 20-25 were forced to compete with a vast number of older men for the same female partners.

Of course, this situation reverses in middle age, when women then suffer a numeric / demographic disadvantage.

Regards,

[longtermmemmory]

iow: no sex, no relationship.

ioow: drama queens need not apply

iooow: duh