Young U.S. men having a lot less sex in the 21st century, study shows

Re:Young U.S. men having a lot less sex in the 21st century,... by codezero on Friday June 12, 2020 @03:26PM (#23502710)

I can't tell from the article, but it sounds like they did not take into account wealth in their study, but are inferring a pattern based on other studies on wealth/sexuality, or am I missing something here?

One can't simply say "women prefer men with higher socioeconomic status" because it sounds right, and I'm not saying that this isn't studied somewhere, just that when making conclusions about a study, if that factor wasn't included in the study, we shouldn't assume it then is one of the conclusions of the study and start connecting dots with other studies just because it feels right.

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Re:Young U.S. men having a lot less sex in the 21st century,... by smichel17 on Friday June 12, 2020 @03:29PM (#23502747)

I don't think the patent was saying the two are related, just that they follow the same pattern.

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Re:Young U.S. men having a lot less sex in the 21st century,... by SeanAppleby on Friday June 12, 2020 @03:31PM (#23502788)

Particularly, most kinds of inequality tend to follow a Pareto distribution.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_distribution

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Re:Young U.S. men having a lot less sex in the 21st century,... by bleachedsleet on Friday June 12, 2020 @03:30PM (#23502778)

I don't think the commenter you're replying to was correlating to wealth directly. Rather they were drawing a comparison to wealth: Just like a few people control most wealth, a small number of males have the majority of sexual interactions.

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