New research shows people have more sex in countries with greater gender equality. Some think this is because women put a high “price” on sex — but there may be other explanations.
According to USA Today, a study of 37 countries “found that countries ranked higher in gender equality also generally had more casual sex, more sex partners per capita, younger ages for first sex and greater tolerance/approval of premarital sex.” The reason, says study author Roy Baumeister, has to do with women’s sexual and economic calculations: “If women don’t have many opportunities to make money on their own, they need the value of sex to be as high as possible. When women don’t have other opportunities, sex is the main thing she has to offer.” According to Baumeister, women will hold out longer for sex if they can’t get power in other ways: “In countries where women are at a big disadvantage, they restrain sex, so the price is high and men make a lifetime commitment to support them to get sex. Men will do whatever is required for sex.”
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