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Okay so you're correct that the sexual market is real, but the availability of cheap sex distorts that market.
Cheap sex isn't distorting the market, it is the fair price of the sex. Morality is what distorts the market, as you rightfully describe below.
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Men have a biological drive for sex, and we created a standard of morality to rage against that drive.
Completely agree.
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Making the value of sex worthless does nothing but encourage this.
The value of the sex is whatever it costs in the market, which is really quite a low number when you think about the act itself. This is borne out in numerous market analyses** and academic research, and by the data presented in this thread. Morality puts an enormous tax on the sex act itself, raising its overall price.
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the availability of cheap sex makes women worthless as well.
On its face, this is probably the most misogynistic statement a person can make. I don't think you meant it this way, I think it just came out wrong. If your point is that cheap sex outside of a historically moral construct make it less likely that men will stay loyal to their wives (really I mean family), I would actually disagree with you.
Lets think about the costs to the family of a dude getting some 'strange' over recent history:
--Less than 200 years ago, Louis XIV changed the church so he could get divorced. He beheaded his wife! Pretty drastic moves for some side action.
--60 years ago, men would get divorces to be with their "home-wrecking" mistresses. I suppose this is an improvement over the guillotine.
--30 years ago, professional men would go to the strip club and spend who knows how much to fool around with a stripper. In this case the family does stay intact, an improvement, but just a little (or a lot) poorer.
--Nowdays, per the video above, only fans costs $4.99 a month and that comes without the VD from the stripper.
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Monogamy is not natural either, but it's conducive to the best result in the end.
I view the 'best result' as "whatever keeps a family unit together for as long as possible, but at a minimum through the child rearing years". So if monogamy is not natural, wouldn't cheaper and cheaper "monogamy alternatives" actually increase the likelihood of attaining the best result? I think so.
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For the record I am a happily married father who is in a monogamous relationship (AFIK

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**Global prices are surveyed quarterly. The Economist was the first publications to start aggregating these figures.
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