Mark Regnerus has been a pioneer in the study of how sexuality is changing in modern society. Anthony Giddens, author of The Transformation of Intimacy: Sexuality, Love, and Eroticism in Modern Societies Will become a standard work of reference in the field. Dr Pravin Thevathasan, Catholic Medical QuarterlyĪ magisterial study of the changing sexual landscape today, which gives special attention to the impact of the digital revolution on sexual behaviour and relationships. Is this book unduly pessimistic? No, it is quite realistic.and a much needed wake-up call. This book has the same message as George Gilder's Men and Marriage which came out a couple of decades back. The Family Education Trust Bulletin Issue 170 In this groundbreaking book, Dr Regnerus draws on several large, population based surveys to provide a representative overview of what Americans think and do with regard to sexual relationships, supplemented by stories from in-depth interviews with100 young adults aged 24-32 conducted by his research team. But unravel the layers, and it is obvious that the emergence of industrial sex is far more a reflection No longer playing a supporting role in relationships, sex has emerged as a central priority in relationship development and continuation. Men and women have not fundamentally changed, but their unions have. Drawing upon several large nationally-representative surveys, in-person interviews with 100 men and women, and the assertions of scholars ranging from evolutionary psychologists to gender theorists, what emerges is a story about social change, technological breakthroughs, and unintended consequences. Cheap Sex takes readers on an extended tour inside the American mating market, and highlights key patterns that characterize young adults' experience today, including the timing of first sex in relationships, overlapping partners, frustrating returns on their relational investments, and a failure to link future goals like marriage with how they navigate their current relationships. Together, they drive down the cost of real sex, and in turn slow the development of love, make fidelity more challenging, sexual malleability more common, and have even taken a toll on men's marriageability. Cheap sex has been made possible by two technologies that have little to do with each other - the Pill and high-quality pornography - and its distribution made more efficient by a third technological innovation, online dating.

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