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According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about 56 percent of women and 59 percent of men have had sex by the time they finish high school.<ref>https://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/data/yrbs/2017_tables/sexual_behaviors.htm#t133_down</ref> If access to sexual intercourse in real life followed an "80/20 rule", then we would expect less people having sex by the time they left high school. At the same time, the more people are online dating, and the real-life dating sphere will become more unequal over time as online dating becomes even more popular. So the "80/20" rule is simply a warning of the damaging effects of our current dating scene, which is increasingly dominated by online dating. | According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about 56 percent of women and 59 percent of men have had sex by the time they finish high school.<ref>https://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/data/yrbs/2017_tables/sexual_behaviors.htm#t133_down</ref> If access to sexual intercourse in real life followed an "80/20 rule", then we would expect less people having sex by the time they left high school. At the same time, the more people are online dating, and the real-life dating sphere will become more unequal over time as online dating becomes even more popular. So the "80/20" rule is simply a warning of the damaging effects of our current dating scene, which is increasingly dominated by online dating. | ||
===Online dating=== | |||
Sexually frustrated men and the abundance of them in online dating and social media, likely also intensify hypergamy: Frustrated men aim down more, which inflates women's self-esteem and gives them hope of securing a mate with exceptional high mate value, so they become even more choosy and date up more or show [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision_fatigue decision fatigue] which creates even more sexually starved men, forming a feedback loop.<ref>https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601909/how-tinder-feedback-loop-forces-men-and-women-into-extreme-strategies/</ref> | |||
Growing economic inequality and decreasing economic growth likely have the same effect as fewer men can attain reliable high status, which is what women go for.<ref>https://journals.openedition.org/chs/737</ref><ref>http://ftp.iza.org/dp4456.pdf</ref><ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill#Women_sexualize_themselves_online_to_attract_high_status_mates</ref> | |||
== Inequality within sexes == | == Inequality within sexes == | ||