the rate of sexual partners, and the habit of having sex first and relationship later, is well established among the Yuppie set: urban professionals. It’s tedious to recount, but the national average for all women (this includes women in their 70’s-80’s) is four, for men it is IIRC nine. Yet among young urban professionals 24-34 it is not unusual for a woman to have 3-4 partners a year. Year after year.
Women just have a lot more sex in urban professional environments. They can critically, “AFFORD” it like other luxuries, and do indeed engage far more in it than in times past. Just the way female consumer spending on all sorts of things is far greater than times past. One often-noted aspect: Women form the majority of new car buyers. This is why you see ads tailored to them now.
Women in their thirties, professionals, routinely report in the Yuppie Central newspaper, the NYT, that they rack up 40-60 partners. One quote “I stopped counting after forty” says it all.
Duh. Women enjoy sex. A lot. They can indulge in it, safely for the most part, and do.
Moreover, the “bar skank” critique does not work. These are for the most part not Strippers, or other pseudo-sex workers, but accountants, lawyers, corporate finance, corporate HR, marketing, and other executives, nurses, doctors, teachers, and others seeking casual sex first with the most thrilling guy they can pick up, THEN a relationship afterwards.
Sex and the City was written by gay men, but does probably reflect the lives of urban professional women. Dominated by status, their relationship with men focused on sex appeal first, the most intimate relationships emotionally being that of their female friends who form their support group.
Over and over again women say the same thing, that the only people they rely/depend on is their female friends. Which is to my mind a slender reed indeed. But there it is.
Again, the number of sex partners most “nice” women have is astonishing compared to prior levels just a few generations ago. A nice, sweet, decent young woman in her early thirties who gives to Greenpeace and Habitat for Humanity, works as an accountant in some corporation, and exudes girl-next-door wholesomeness, probably has about 45 sex partners already.
She has not gotten “slutty.” What has changed is that there is no social penalty for all those sex partners, indeed it’s viewed as a sign of maturity by most women to search for “the Right Guy” by having so many sex partners. And of course, sex first relationship afterwards.
After all, where is a nice girl to meet guys? Bars and clubs. That’s where. So that’s what drives everything. Workplace romance is both taboo and awkward, and the pickings there are slim. Fellow corporate drones who are not exciting and dominant, corporate life forbids that sort of thing.
Women just have a lot more sex in urban professional environments. They can critically, “AFFORD” it like other luxuries, and do indeed engage far more in it than in times past. Just the way female consumer spending on all sorts of things is far greater than times past. One often-noted aspect: Women form the majority of new car buyers. This is why you see ads tailored to them now.
Women in their thirties, professionals, routinely report in the Yuppie Central newspaper, the NYT, that they rack up 40-60 partners. One quote “I stopped counting after forty” says it all.
Duh. Women enjoy sex. A lot. They can indulge in it, safely for the most part, and do.
Moreover, the “bar skank” critique does not work. These are for the most part not Strippers, or other pseudo-sex workers, but accountants, lawyers, corporate finance, corporate HR, marketing, and other executives, nurses, doctors, teachers, and others seeking casual sex first with the most thrilling guy they can pick up, THEN a relationship afterwards.
Sex and the City was written by gay men, but does probably reflect the lives of urban professional women. Dominated by status, their relationship with men focused on sex appeal first, the most intimate relationships emotionally being that of their female friends who form their support group.
Over and over again women say the same thing, that the only people they rely/depend on is their female friends. Which is to my mind a slender reed indeed. But there it is.
Again, the number of sex partners most “nice” women have is astonishing compared to prior levels just a few generations ago. A nice, sweet, decent young woman in her early thirties who gives to Greenpeace and Habitat for Humanity, works as an accountant in some corporation, and exudes girl-next-door wholesomeness, probably has about 45 sex partners already.
She has not gotten “slutty.” What has changed is that there is no social penalty for all those sex partners, indeed it’s viewed as a sign of maturity by most women to search for “the Right Guy” by having so many sex partners. And of course, sex first relationship afterwards.
After all, where is a nice girl to meet guys? Bars and clubs. That’s where. So that’s what drives everything. Workplace romance is both taboo and awkward, and the pickings there are slim. Fellow corporate drones who are not exciting and dominant, corporate life forbids that sort of thing.
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