Cougar Night in Silicon Valley
vanityfair.com
vanityfair.com
"unbalanced gender ratios did not seem to problematize proportionally. The research showed that as the sex ratio augmented in favor of women, at first, as you would expect, the women simply turned fussy and went for richer and more powerful men. But at a certain point a curious thing happened: the amount of socioeconomic status a guy needed to get girl increased way more than the math would predict. Specifically when the ratio was tilted in favor of women by 10%, low status men became not 1.1 times less likely to get a girl but 2.3 times less likely and high status men 1.3 times less likely."
The post uses this as proof for the fact that SF hooking up prospects are so bad.
My guess as to a reason is that women who have been hit on aggressively by some number of men eventually get cynical. But once you're cynical, you reflexively reject all of the aggressive men, and never spot the less aggressive men, with the result that you're in permanent "fast reject" mode.
Yes.
Luckily, most men never really try that hard on dating websites.
Isn’t a cougar an established older woman looking for casual sex with a “boy toy?”
Seems like a better name for this would be “Gold Digger Night” or just “Rich Old People Trying to Hook Up.”
Also if I paid $30,000 I would at the very least want a guarantee that the matchmaker will find girls that are definitely down to fuck that night, and will supply me a new girl every week at least.
The answer is that the kind of men who want to use a service like this want something other than straight sex. They want to fall in love. An escort can deliver sex, but the odds of love coming out of that are really, really bad.
Also you're probably not going to go to a service like that if $30,000 is a lot of money to you.
>"The holdout cities — those where the earnings of single, college-educated young women still lag men's — tended to be built around industries that are heavily male-dominated, such as software development or military-technology contracting. In other words, Silicon Valley could also be called Gender Gap Gully."
http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,2015274,00....
I'd ask Vanity Fair for their studies and numbers on cougars, but I don't think I'd hear back.