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Young people in general are having less sex but young men are having a noteworthy amount less than young women. And the delta between the two groups is a new thing within the last 10 years or so.

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So who are these (presumably primarily straight) young women having sex with?

The same subset of men.

I learn from the comments here that if you line up 100 women and 100 men, all 100 women will have sex with only 5 of the guys.

For which I don't think this is true at all...

I thought this is pretty well documented on tinder at least that the top twenty percent or so of men are making out like bandits.

I doubt the ratio is that extreme, but if the delta exists isn't the logical conclusion that a smaller subset of the men are having sex with a larger percentage of the women?

Maybe not that extreme but it's a super well documented phenomenon across evolutionary psych and studies of dating app stats.

More like 20 guys will have sex with 80 of the women, 80 guys will compete for the 20 least desirable girls.

A quick stab in the dark is a sugar daddy, older man, more established with more free disposable income. My only evidence to back this up is anecdotal, I have young parents. I am 28 and my dad is 46. Parents divorced a few years ago. My Dad works sales and makes a good chunk of money. He recently stopped going to bars because all the 20-some year old girls would hit on him and get a little too close for his comfort, which grosses him out because my sister is 26.

Edit: I found it funny when he was complaining to me about it because all I could thing of is that these girls probably don't know they are hitting on a guy with grandkids.

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