{"id":872,"date":"2011-08-14T09:00:52","date_gmt":"2011-08-14T13:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=872"},"modified":"2011-08-13T07:16:32","modified_gmt":"2011-08-13T11:16:32","slug":"the-sexonomics-of-gender-equality-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2011\/the-sexonomics-of-gender-equality-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sexonomics of Gender Equality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/081311_1114_TheSexonomi11.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve previously covered how <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centives.net\/S\/2011\/the-economics-of-college-sex\/\">college sex<\/a> conforms quite well to the laws of supply and demand. A Florida University Social Psychologist recently decided to apply the same type of analysis to see how gender equality changes the &#8216;market forces&#8217; involved in sex. He concludes that &#8220;gender equality means more sex&#8221;. In an interview with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/life\/sex\/index.html?story=\/mwt\/feature\/2011\/08\/09\/equality_and_sex\"><em>Salon<\/em><\/a> he answered some questions about his research. The highlights of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/life\/sex\/index.html?story=\/mwt\/feature\/2011\/08\/09\/equality_and_sex\">interview<\/a> include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In the sexual market &#8220;women have the supply and men represent the demand.&#8221; The price of sex is the amount that men have to commit to attain it.<\/li>\n<li>On describing how women treat sex the researcher argued that &#8220;It&#8217;s a bit like OPEC.&#8221; Sex is a resource that women control, and to ensure that the price of sex remains high women restrict each other&#8217;s sexuality through the use of tools such as gossip and shame.<\/li>\n<li>Because gender equality means that sex is no longer &#8220;a woman&#8217;s only ticket to a good life&#8221; she no longer needs &#8220;to get a really good return&#8221; and this brings down the price of sex thus increasing the promiscuity of a society.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read the rest of the interview over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/life\/sex\/index.html?story=\/mwt\/feature\/2011\/08\/09\/equality_and_sex\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/\"><em>Salon<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve previously covered how college sex conforms quite well to the laws of supply and demand. A Florida University Social Psychologist recently decided to apply the same type of analysis to see how gender equality changes the &#8216;market forces&#8217; involved in sex. He concludes that &#8220;gender equality means more sex&#8221;. In an interview with Salon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=872"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":875,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872\/revisions\/875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}