Cheap Sex, Mark Regnerus
Cheap Sex, Mark Regnerus
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Cheap Sex
The Transformation of Men, Marriage, and Monogamy

Author: Mark Regnerus

Narrator: Mike Chamberlain

Unabridged: 10 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 02/13/2018


Synopsis

Sex is cheap. Coupled sexual activity has become more widely available than ever. Cheap sex has been made possible by two technologies that have little to do with each other—the Pill and high-quality pornography—and its distribution made more efficient by a third technological innovation, online dating. Together, they drive down the cost of real sex, and in turn slow the development of love, make fidelity more challenging, sexual malleability more common, and have even taken a toll on men's marriageability.

Cheap Sex takes listeners on an extended tour inside the American mating market, and highlights key patterns that characterize young adults' experience today, including the timing of first sex in relationships, overlapping partners, frustrating returns on their relational investments, and a failure to link future goals like marriage with how they navigate their current relationships. Drawing upon several large nationally-representative surveys, in-person interviews with 100 men and women, and the assertions of scholars ranging from evolutionary psychologists to gender theorists, what emerges is a story about social change, technological breakthroughs, and unintended consequences.

About Mark Regnerus

Mark Regnerus is Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Texas, Austin. His research is in the areas of sexual behavior, family, marriage, and religion. He is the author of Forbidden Fruit and Premarital Sex in America.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Mark

A quick check of the Goodreads reviews suggests to me that everyone has strong feelings about this book—which tends to support the author’s thesis, I think. In other words, sex is not what Captain Kathryn Janeway said it was in an episode of Star Trek: Voyager, namely a component of good hygiene. On......more

Goodreads review by Stephen

In Cheap Sex, Mark Regnerus cites a lot of research to make a strong case for how the marriage-partnering-dating-sex market in the US (and probably other countries) reached its current state, and how most trends will probably continue. Unsurprisingly, the results are mixed, as throughout history the......more

Goodreads review by Therese

This book is a very strange animal - author Mark Regnerus is a sociologist who has faced some controversy, as well as formal reprimand from a scholarly journal he published in for his questionable use of data to argue a homophobic-seeming thesis. Without my having chased down every one of his footno......more

Goodreads review by Kris

Having read Sex Matters: How Modern Feminism Lost Touch with Science, Love, and Common Sense somewhat recently, I was curious to pick this one up. I knew very little going in, and to my delight I discovered Regnerus is a sociologist. This book is academically-driven, rather than politically- or reli......more