Imbalances in dating/marriage market

Article summary:

1. Women are achieving more
2. Men are achieving less or stagnating
3. Women only want to marry someone better than them, never below (physically and financially)
4. Sexual marketplace is global, local status doesn't matter

Result is women can't find men they consider suitable, and men are unable to find women who want to have sex with them / marry them. These factors together are causing society-wide problems.

Some interesting details:

Financially:

• Women want a man whose income is higher than 70% of men
• Study found 10x increase in man's earning gives him 2 "points" bump in attractiveness. Similar effect does not exist for women
• Marriages where woman out-earns her husband are 50% more likely to end in divorce
• Swedish study confirms above: if wife contributes 80% or more of total income, marriage risk is 2x higher than if she contributes 20% or less
• Another study found if woman earns more, the man is more likely to have erectile dysfunction
• Young women are out-earning you men. In UK, women ages 22-29 earned £1,111 more than male peers
• Women in US are more likely to have college degree (37% vs. 30%)

Physically:

• Women seek a mate 21cm taller than them
• OKCupid study shows women find 80% of men "below average" in attractiveness
• Tinder data agrees: men "like" 60% of female profiles, women "like" 4.5% of male profiles
• Also note tinder user base is 72% male. Competition imbalance skews towards small slice of male profiles
• General Social Survey in 2008 found 10% of men under 30 having no sex. In 2018, that number is 28%. For women the jump is from 10% to 18%

The author has a mathematical formula to fully explain the predicament society is in, and model why we are screwed.

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