The imbalance in the sex ratio can, when caused by high rates of incarceration, can shift the bargaining power away from women and lead to higher risky sexual behavior in equilibrium. See Johnson and Raphael. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/597102 …
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So I guess I'm primed by this research to already see loneliness as having major social costs. And if you want to call this "sex inequality", fine. You can call it lots of different things. But the reality is that some people are unintentionally alone in this life
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and that's hard. And sometimes, there's spill overs to other people. Now, that also is very complicated, because I don't know what to think of a person whose loneliness interacts with hate in their heart and a vicious community of toxic males reinforcing jealousy.
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As others have said, the sex ratios are so imbalanced in African-American communities that many women simply cannot mathematically find a monogamous partner, and depending on how the matching markets function, inter-racial matches may not occur given they're two sided.
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Yet these women aren't going on murderous rampages. So I have to think that part of the problem is something to do with these vicious, toxic communities of lonely men. But that said, I do suppose that even there I am defensive of
@robinhanson because my own research w/ Manisha2 replies 1 retweet 17 likesShow this thread -
finds evidence that access to commercial sex markets reduces sexual violence against women. And in doing that research, we heard stories from sex workers who claimed that some of the men they saw during RI's experiment were probably dangerous men.https://academic.oup.com/restud/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/restud/rdx065/4756165?redirectedFrom=fulltext …
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Then there's my study with DeAngelo and
@jftripp finding that Craigslist's erotic services reduced female homicides. Why is it happening? Maybe it's just mechanical - as you move people indoors, you just remove the opportunity for violence. But the numbers seem too large2 replies 1 retweet 9 likesShow this thread -
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My question about Robin’s ideas is this: why would we ever need to redistribute sex if we can just redistribute income and there is a market already for sex (
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What I would like to better understand is whether search frictions in the commercial sex markets contribute to these men being involuntary celibates. At least in parts of Canada, if not all of it, my understanding is that buying is illegal, so it's possible that is relevant here
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My sense is that, for this sub-community, buying sex is considered a defeat because what they are really complaining about is not lack of sex but lack of social status that comes from having a girlfriend or wife
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Must be. There's Eliot Spitzer, who I think was just a workaholic and used it for reasons different than the deeply embarrassed, lonely man who believes he will never be competitive on the marriage market. But, I imagine the toxicity of incel communities are endogenous.
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