{"id":9878,"date":"2019-07-11T08:50:37","date_gmt":"2019-07-11T06:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=9878"},"modified":"2019-07-11T08:50:37","modified_gmt":"2019-07-11T06:50:37","slug":"meet-markets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/9878\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Markets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A reader sends me this <a href=\"http:\/\/theagonist.org\/essays\/2019\/06\/28\/essays-mccarthy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">interesting essay<\/a> about dating apps and the modern sexual market place:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dovetailing these concerns is an academic cottage industry on the \u201cincreased female unhappiness\u201d of Western women. The theory here is that modern women are less satisfied than their grandmothers because they now delay childbearing to an advanced age while simultaneously holding down demanding jobs in the competitive globalized workplace.\u00a0<span id=\"backref8\">Arguably<\/span>, however, the amount of \u201chappiness\u201d for women has not decreased, but merely been frontloaded to their early 20s when they are having copious sex before settling down for marriage with lesser men.\u00a0<span id=\"backref9\">The<\/span>\u00a0actual \u201credistribution of happiness\u201d has been to the alpha males who secure more sexual\u00a0pleasure in their 20s at the expense of betas who remain lonely until they later make terms with leftover women.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Go read the <a href=\"http:\/\/theagonist.org\/essays\/2019\/06\/28\/essays-mccarthy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">whole thing<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A reader sends me this interesting essay about dating apps and the modern sexual market place: Dovetailing these concerns is an academic cottage industry on the \u201cincreased female unhappiness\u201d of Western women. The theory here is that modern women are &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/9878\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[111,87],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9878"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9879,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9878\/revisions\/9879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}