All right, team, welcome to The Man Talk Show. I am Connor Beaton.

And today we're going to be talking about the mating crisis.

We're going to be talking about what the hell is happening in modern dating.

There's some very interesting research that we're going to talk about that's coming out that is showing a real discrepancy for young men in modern dating and also for women.

And I get asked a lot to comment about relationships and dynamics.

But sometimes it's good to go into the research, the science behind it.

And so today I'm going to read you a piece by the professor of psychology at the University of Texas,

Austin, and author of When Men Behave Badly, which is actually quite a good book, David M. Buss.

And the title of this is called The Mating Crisis Among Educated Women.

And I thought that this was interesting because in some ways it talks about the crisis

that we are facing in terms of less men graduating from university than ever before.

You know, there's some research that came out recently that showed that men only make up

roughly 40.5% of college students in North America and that universities have reported a decline over the past couple years, of the past several years, but specifically last year of over 1.5 million less applicants, less students in America specifically.

And of those 1.5 million less students, it was predominantly men. It was 71% men. So less men are

going to college. Less men are getting college degrees. And there's a number of reasons for that

that we could talk about. But the implications of that are that less men are within that sort of

dating pool where they would normally meet women. And according to some Pew research that came out

recently, 51% of men between the ages of 18 and 29 are single compared to 32% of women

between ages 18 and 29 that are single. So very interesting. So there's a big sort of shift

that's happening within modern culture. And there's a number of reasons for this. And we're going to dive into it.

But I thought I would read you this article by David Buss because it's brief,

but I think it's quite telling in terms of the sort of seismic shift that's happening

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