A Sexual Marketplace, October 28, 2024.

So the reasons for a young man marrying young as outlined elsewhere seem fairly

compelling. So why are so few young men doing this? What is the hold up? Why can't

they get with the program? The short answer is that people respond to incentives and they

respond to disincentives also. These incentives and disincentives can be economic, they can be

social, they can be moral and so on, and as we are seeing, they can be social, they can be moral and so on.

And as we are seeing, they can have a big impact in the sexual realm as well.

In the current sexual marketplace, quote unquote, one of the behaviors that is being disincentivized is early marriage.

People not only sneer at it, they also levy fines on it, as well as providing free workarounds

for those who just want to skip it.

It is all very well to say that singleness is an affliction as it most certainly is. But what

sort of affliction is it? We can easily begin by noticing that it is an affliction to those who are

unmarried and who earnestly want to get married.

That is correct.

It is a personal affliction.

But it is not just that.

This is also a widespread cultural affliction and one that circles back around in order to increase the misery of those

individuals who have been caught in the machinery of our cultural stupidity.

There have been eras when the people were marrying young and the fertility rays were high

and the culture at large had a robust and

healthy view of the whole thing. And it is quite obviously true that in those times

there were unfortunate individuals who were unwillingly unmarried. This should be regarded as a personal or individual misfortune.

...