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==== Are women becoming sluttier? ==== | ==== Are women becoming sluttier? ==== | ||
Contrary to people's impression, women do not appear to have more sex today than 30 years ago, e.g. in [[#Germany|Germany]], [[#France|France]], the [[U.S.]], women have slightly less sex (though not as much less as men), likely due to weaker monogamy norms/later marriage. But a minority of women (e.g. around 21.87% of female Tinder users) does seem to have ''lots of sex'' and can get it substantially more easily than men, which may cause impressions of intensified sluttiness with a [[https://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill#The_top_5-20.25_of_men_.28ie._.22Chads.22.29_are_now_having_more_sex_than_ever_before|diverging rate]] of sex between the least and most sexually active. So even though most people have less sex, a sex elite men and women have more. The impression of increased sluttiness may also come from the rise of self-sexualization (e.g. in online media, but also in the public) which appears to be driven by female intra-sexual competition and economic uncertainty/inequality, i.e. women self-sexualizing themselves to get attention from the more and more rare economically advantaged men | Contrary to people's impression, women do not appear to have more sex today than 30 years ago, e.g. in [[#Germany|Germany]], [[#France|France]], the [[U.S.]], women have slightly less sex (though not as much less as men), likely due to weaker monogamy norms/later marriage. But a minority of women (e.g. around 21.87% of female Tinder users) does seem to have ''lots of sex'' and can get it substantially more easily than men, which may cause impressions of intensified sluttiness with a [[https://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill#The_top_5-20.25_of_men_.28ie._.22Chads.22.29_are_now_having_more_sex_than_ever_before|diverging rate]] of sex between the least and most sexually active. So even though most people have less sex, a sex elite men and women have more. The impression of increased sluttiness may also come from the rise of self-sexualization (e.g. in online media, but also in the public) which appears to be driven by female intra-sexual competition and economic uncertainty/inequality, i.e. women self-sexualizing themselves to get attention from the more and more rare economically advantaged men,<ref>Blake KR, Bastian B, Denson TF, Grosjean P and Brooks RC. 2018. ''Income inequality not gender inequality positively covaries with female sexualization on social media.'' [[http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2018/08/20/1717959115 Abstract]]</ref> | ||
as well as the overall reduced pressure to behave that is put on women.<ref>Dytham S. 2018. ''The role of popular girls in bullying and intimidating boys and other popular girls in secondary school.'' [[https://doi.org/10.1002/berj.3324 Abstract]]</ref> | |||
==Other countries== | ==Other countries== |