#181: What Is the "Price" of Sex?
Java with Juli - Making Sense of God and Sex
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🗓️ 6 November 2017
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Birth control, pornography, online dating –according to our guest on this Java with Juli, all of these technologies have lowered the price of sex and tipped the scales in the favor of men. How does this impact you? How can singles navigate the new marriage marketplace? Grab your coffee and join us to find out!
Guest: Mark Regnerus
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, welcome to Job with Julie. On today's episode, I wanted to share with you a conversation I had with Dr. Mark Wigneris. Mark is a research professor of sociology at the University of Texas and Austin. |
| 0:12.8 | And Mark's specialty is he studies trends in marriage and relationship and sexuality and then compiles that information in books and books and journals articles and resources that help |
| 0:24.3 | people like you and me understand what's going on in our world. |
| 0:27.5 | Mark just recently had an article published in the Wall Street Journal talking about |
| 0:32.2 | cheap sex and how it has impacted men, how it's impacted women in marriage. |
| 0:36.7 | And we're going to be talking about some of those trends that he's noticed as he's studied |
| 0:41.8 | just the sociology of sexuality and how those trends relate to our own relationships and |
| 0:48.0 | our own culture. |
| 0:49.5 | So get your cup of coffee and I hope you enjoy my conversation with Mark Wigneris. |
| 0:55.0 | One thing I learned from you that made total sense when I read it, but I have to admit |
| 0:59.5 | I had to read it a few times before I really got it, was this idea that sexual decisions |
| 1:05.7 | don't happen in a vacuum, that there's an economy of sexuality. So can you describe to a layperson what that |
| 1:15.3 | actually means? Yeah, and your listeners might not like it. It's just, I can't help that. |
| 1:20.6 | But it's true. We don't like a lot of what we hear. You can draw a little bit of an analogy from |
| 1:26.9 | real estate. |
| 1:28.3 | There are some neighborhoods in which, you know, the price is much lower. |
| 1:33.3 | There's, yeah, I could say I want to sell my house for a million dollars, but, you know, if all my neighbors are only selling it for $200,000, like, it, it matters what other people are doing when it comes to real estate. And in the |
| 1:46.5 | domain of sexual relationships, it matters what other people around you are doing. The idea that |
| 1:54.8 | a couple could have an illicit liaison only for a night and nobody would ever know about it is pretty |
| 2:03.6 | much fiction not because somebody would talk about it but because what has happened is that |
| 2:08.9 | the sex was priced very cheaply and and and to him that you know that affects how he perceives the next person who he might want to have a relationship with. |
| 2:23.5 | It affects her in the idea of like, well, this is just what men expect. |
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