Patri Friedman

The sexual marketplace hurts us because it overwhelms us with the illusion of choice; everyone feels like a sad compromise; there is always a girl out there who is younger, skinnier, better endowed... or a man who is stronger, richer, more confident, more powerful

This is the instagram effect but it long predates the internet. You construct a hyperreal image of a person and you compare everyone to that and if you’re male you disappear into a vortex of porn and if you’re female you have a long string of regrettable encounters

In both sexes this leads to bitterness and bitter intersexual hatred; men are trash, entitled virgin asshole losers who just use women— women are whores, stuck up manipulative frigid opportunistic— lives in his mom’s basement— only wants a man who treats her like shit—

The average person holds out for someone who doesn’t exist, feels lonely about it, and it’s always someone else’s fault. You know that everyone, you included, is just following their incentives, which is why you blame your problems on all (wo)men.

To find deliverance from this pain, the progressive left teaches, you simply need to have sex! You need to let go of all your hangups and internalized oppression and then you will be able to find sexual fulfillment.https://twitter.com/0x49fa98/status/1019568529752772608 …

Anyone who speaks against this path to salvation must be a sexless loser. It’s the only conceivable explanation. The dissident right claims instead that the medicine of sexual emancipation is the cause of the disease it is meant to treat

The truth is that sex is never just sex, and when you treat it that way you debase yourself, and despite much protestation to the contrary, the implicit deal always was and always will be, "if I have sex with you, then in return you will love me"

How did we get to this sorry state? The dominant memeplex at the time, Christianity, was weak in one of its core components: specifically, religious ecstasy:https://twitter.com/0x49fa98/status/1022157439146196993 …