<story><title>Explaining Sex Rate Changes</title><url>http://www.overcomingbias.com/2019/03/explaining-sex-rate-changes.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>freyir</author><text>As the article points out, fewer young men are having sex, but roughly the same number of young women are having sex.&lt;p&gt;I wonder if dating apps (Tinder, Bumble, etc.) are leading women to have sex with a smaller cohort of desirable men. Years ago, OkCupid noted that a small percentage of men get an overwhelming percentage of messages from women. With the rise of &amp;quot;swipe right, swipe left&amp;quot; mobile dating apps, where people choose partners based almost solely on looks and status indicators, I can imagine it&amp;#x27;s getting even more unbalanced.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stared</author><text>&amp;quot;[In Tinder,] the bottom 80% of men (in terms of attractiveness) are competing for the bottom 22% of women and the top 78% of women are competing for the top 20% of men&amp;quot; - from  &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;medium.com&amp;#x2F;@worstonlinedater&amp;#x2F;tinder-experiments-ii-guys-unless-you-are-really-hot-you-are-probably-better-off-not-wasting-your-2ddf370a6e9a&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;medium.com&amp;#x2F;@worstonlinedater&amp;#x2F;tinder-experiments-ii-g...&lt;/a&gt; (2015).&lt;p&gt;I dive a bit it that topic in &amp;quot;Dating for nerds (part 2): gender differences&amp;quot; &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;p.migdal.pl&amp;#x2F;2017&amp;#x2F;09&amp;#x2F;30&amp;#x2F;dating-for-nerds-gender-differences.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;p.migdal.pl&amp;#x2F;2017&amp;#x2F;09&amp;#x2F;30&amp;#x2F;dating-for-nerds-gender-diffe...&lt;/a&gt;.</text></comment>
<story><title>Explaining Sex Rate Changes</title><url>http://www.overcomingbias.com/2019/03/explaining-sex-rate-changes.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>freyir</author><text>As the article points out, fewer young men are having sex, but roughly the same number of young women are having sex.&lt;p&gt;I wonder if dating apps (Tinder, Bumble, etc.) are leading women to have sex with a smaller cohort of desirable men. Years ago, OkCupid noted that a small percentage of men get an overwhelming percentage of messages from women. With the rise of &amp;quot;swipe right, swipe left&amp;quot; mobile dating apps, where people choose partners based almost solely on looks and status indicators, I can imagine it&amp;#x27;s getting even more unbalanced.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ycombinete</author><text>Well as I understand it there are two primary evolutionary modes of sexual pairing&amp;#x2F;selection, which humans follow.&lt;p&gt;The first model is where a supremely desirable male has many female partners, who get a little of his attention; and the second model, monogamy, where two partners pair up exclusively with the bulk of attention dedicated to each other [1]. Both are apt given different circumstances.&lt;p&gt;Without trying to put any morality on to it, dating apps&amp;#x2F;hookup culture seem more predisposed to tapping in to the first selection model.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;The_Red_Queen:_Sex_and_the_Evolution_of_Human_Nature&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;The_Red_Queen:_Sex_and_the_Evo...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>