Liberals are so insensitive to reality, they don't realize that their advocacy of sexual freedom generates more rape. How? Despite the stereotype of getting jumped like Ford claims about Judge Kavanaugh, most rape is date rape. It's casual intimacy gone wrong. At some point in the seduction, the girl wants to stop, but the guy keeps going. The sequence is typically persuasion, pressure, then force.
So the more casual sexual interactions, the greater the odds of interactions that go south.
Sex liberationists would deny the connection -- again, these kinds of people are immune to reality --but if an honest one came along, perhaps he might argue it's worth it because free "love" generates so much overall happiness. Is that true?
One measure of lots of causal sex is the number of partners one had in the past year. The General Social Survey asks this question, so I looked to see if this and control variables predict being happy. Here are the ordinary least squares (OLS) results for almost 15,000 cases.
Being happy (standardized OLS coefficients)
Age -.01
Male -.01
White .09***
Size of city .01
Native-born -.02*
Education .12***
Church attendance .11***
Liberalism -.05***
Number of sex partners -.01
* p < .05, ***p < .001, two-tail test
So what predicts being happy? Being white, an immigrant, educated, religious, and conservative. Race, education, and religious involvement are most important.
Age, sex, and city size don't matter, and people get nothing out of many sex partners.
Now you're thinking, maybe lots of partners don't make women happy, but c'mon, it's a man's paradise.
I ran the numbers for men only: the coefficient is negative (-.02) but the p-value is .074. In other words, more partners makes no difference in a man's happiness. Same thing if I run the numbers for women only.
Like Greg Cochran says: Sociologists are useful because if you take the position that is the opposite of theirs, you're probably right.
UPDATE: By the way, if you suspect that I added a bunch of controls to wipe out a positive partners/happiness correlation, you're wrong: it's -.02 (and not significant).
Are gun owners mentally ill?
Some anti-gun people think owning a gun is a sign of some kind of mental abnormality. According to General Social Survey data, gun owners ...
I am a white, overeducated, conservative, mildly religious immigrant to New Zealand. I should be ecstatic.
ReplyDeleteThen explain this:https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/unique-everybody-else/201301/the-personalities-porn-stars?amp
ReplyDeletehttps://www.livescience.com/amp/27428-truth-about-porn-stars.html
http://evoandproud.blogspot.com/2015/06/young-male-and-single.html?m=1
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0092656687900389
Then explain why the least happy populations tend to be the most monogamous?