#173: Date-onomics -- How Skewed Sex Ratios on College Campuses Are Affecting Courtship and Marriage

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🗓️ 29 January 2016

⏱️ 48 minutes

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In the past forty years we've seen dramatic changes in the way people date and marry. From the hook-up culture on college campuses to young adults putting off marriage longer and longer, a lot of explanations have been offered that focus on changing values in our country. But my guest today on the podcast argues that perhaps changing demographics has more to do with changing mating patterns in the West. His name is Jon Birger and he's the author of the book Date-onoics: How Dating Became a Lopsided Numbers Game. Today on the podcast Jon and I discuss how changing sex ratios influences everything from delaying marriage to the hook-up culture.

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0:00.0	We're at McCay here and welcome to another edition of the Art of Manliness Podcast.
0:17.9	In the past few decades, there's been a lot of ink spilled about the changing morays
0:21.6	in the world of romance in the Western world.
0:24.0	A lot of social critics have been sounding the alarm about the hookup culture, the declining
0:28.2	rates of marriage and the rise of cohabitation.
0:31.0	There's often times a lot of the reasons put out there why these shifts are happening is
0:35.8	changing values in the Western world.
0:37.9	My guest today on the podcast is just published a book where he says it's not so much changing
0:42.5	values, it's changing demographics, it's underlying the shift in dating and marriage behaviors.
0:47.7	His name is John Berger, he's the author of the book Data Dynamics, how dating became
0:51.4	a lot cited in numbers game.
0:53.2	And today on the podcast we discuss the research that John highlights in his book about
0:57.2	how sex ratios, that is the number of men to women to men can affect dating behavior,
1:03.0	mating behavior in men and women.
1:05.3	It's a really fascinating discussion about dating.
1:08.4	So if you are in the dating world right now, you're going to find a lot of insights.
1:11.5	Even if you're not, you might find some insights as a parent that you've probably seen and
1:15.7	you've wondered why it's going on here now you'll understand.
1:19.1	Maybe have a new way to look at what's understanding what's going on.
1:22.2	So without further ado, Data Dynamics with John Berger.
1:27.2	John Berger, welcome to the show.
1:38.1	Brett, thanks for having me on.
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