Transcript The Intersection Between Economics and Male Sexual Performance

The Global Impact of
the Gender Flip on
Partnering Patterns
Leanna Wolfe, PhD
4th International Conference on the Future of Monogamy and Non-Monogamy
February 14, 2015
Considerations:
• Increasing numbers of women in Europe, the America’s and
Asia are out-earning men
• Marriage and partnering patterns have been and will continue
to be affected
• Male/Female Eroticism is up for grabs
Economics of the Gender Flip
• 29% of American wives out-earn their husbands
• By 2050 71% more college educated women than men
• Similar patterns for South Korea, Japan, Singapore, Philippines,
France, Chile, Ireland, Canada, Belgium and Norway
• Hypergamy (women marrying up) is declining in the Western
world
• Marrying down more common in much of the Americas and
Western Europe
• 66% of births to single mothers in Iceland
• 50% in Sweden
• Not regarded as a social problem as in the U.S.
Asian Women
• High incidence of early 30s women are single and unlikely to
marry
• 32% Japan
• 37% Taiwan
• 25% Hong Kong
• Fertility rates at an all-time low
• Taboo against unmarried childbearing
• Asian women do want to marry, but…
• Seek to marry men at their level or higher
• High earning men prefer younger non-professional wives
• Well-educated high earning women are out-migrating to Europe
and the Americas
Globalization of Marriage
• Mail Order Brides
• South Korea
• Importation of Thai and Vietnamese women
• American men in Thailand
• Sex Vacations
• Marriage
• Spain
• Importation of rural Latin American women
• Spanish women marrying N. European men
Women with Money…
• Partnering Patterns Shifting
• Monogamy Questioned
• Heteronormative Marriage Optional
• Polyamory
• Poly Singles with Independent Lives
• Queen Bees
• Sex for Pleasure
• Casual Sex
• Sex parties, hook-ups
• Sex Vacations
• Caribbean Beach Boys
• Yellow Cabs
• Kink Sexualities
• Lesbian and Bisexualities
Male Fall Out…
• Independent Women No Longer Need Men for:
• Provisioning
• Insemination
• Protection
• No Need to Sort Out Cads from Lads
• Peter Pans
• Househusbands
The Uncomfortable Relationship
Between Sex and Money
• Victorian Sexual Expressions
• Provider Husband with Compliant Wife
• 1970s Divorce Wave
• Prostitution
• Gigolos
• Dating…
Gone with the Wind…
Henpecked Men
The 1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
Fifty Shades of Grey
What’s Being Traded Today?
• What turns on today’s women?
• Confident Men
• What turns on today’s men??
• Compliant Women?
• Independent Women?
• Internet Porn?