Sexual Economics: Sex as Female Resource for Social Exchange in Heterosexual Interactions

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8. Why not this again?

It's high time we stop denying these things and started working to make this a problem that we talk about in the past tense, right alongside women not being able to vote and black slavery.

A heterosexual community can be analyzed as a marketplace in which men seek to acquire sex from women by offering other resources in exchange. Societies will therefore define gender roles as if women are sellers and men buyers of sex. Societies will endow female sexuality, but not male sexuality, with value (as in virginity, fidelity, chastity). The sexual activities of different couples are loosely interrelated by a marketplace, instead of being fully separate or private, and each couple’s decisions may be influenced by market conditions. Economic principles suggest that the price of sex will depend on supply and demand, competition among sellers, variations in product, collusion among sellers, and other factors. Research findings show gender asymmetries (reflecting the complementary economic roles) in prostitution, courtship, infidelity and divorce, female competition, the sexual revolution and changing norms, unequal status between partners, cultural suppression of female sexuality, abusive relationships, rape, and sexual attitudes.

None of this is in error. Why are we so scared to address this?

I would suggest most people close your eyes and minds before you read this, lest you be driven into a fanatical frenzy:

This system, that which is described in italics above, oppresses both men and women. It needs to be abolished. Women should not have to sell their sex and men should not have to be buyers of sex. It is degrading to both genders. Sex and relationships should never be a marketplace thing.

But first, let's get this issue out and discuss it. We're LIBERALS, right, and we discuss progress, we're not conservatives who stuff reality under the rug and live in denial... or are we?