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SEX ON CAMPUS, and the implications of female hypergamy. ?As just about everyone (from Dennis Prage?

By Glenn Reynolds

SEX ON CAMPUS, and the implications of female hypergamy. “As just about everyone (from Dennis Prager to pickup artists) has figured out by now, women tend to want men of high status, men they look up to ? literally, in terms of height, and figuratively, in terms of social standing, income, and education. If women systematically outpace men on these status markers ? as they are beginning to ? they will have to compete for men they deem suitable at a less-than-even ratio. There?s nothing we can do about this that I can think of, but it will not be good for marriage.”

And here’s a much longer treatment from Slate. “When attractive women will still bed you, life for young men, even those who are floundering, just isn’t so bad.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on February 26, 2011 (boomark / email).