Setting the sex rules
Sunday, November 29th, 2009Here’s the key graph in this piece:
“It doesn’t help that women outnumber men on most college campuses, where there are about 80 men for every 100 women. So men are the scarce resource, and they get to make the rules. And they know it, too.”
That’s what I wrote about in this piece about James Madison University.
chicagotribune.com
Hooking up’s gender gap
Men make the rules on sex today
By Jonathan Zimmerman
November 29, 2009
Hey, do you want to hook up?
If you’re like lots of American high school and college students, the answer is clearly “yes.” But when you look at the reasons, you’ll find an enormous gender divide. Girls have sex in order to score a boyfriend, and boys simply want to score.
And the boys are winning.
