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Summary of Dollars and Sex 

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Have you ever wondered what roles wealth, prosperity, and other economic factors play in love? In 2008, Canadian blogger and professor of economics Marina Adshade, Ph.D., started a famous undergraduate course at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada, titled The Economics of Sex and Love, which has helped people see online dating, marriage, and premarital sex in a whole new light. Dollars and Sex is a fun-to-read book that will stimulate your thoughts the same way it did for Marina Adshade's students. This summary contains her and other popular economists' research on human romantic and sexual behaviors. You'll see the role race and financial status play in mixed marriages, why most people prefer to cohabit today, why couples have money problems, and so much more. "In Dollars and Sex, Adshade uses everything from prostitution to online dating to demonstrate how economics work in practice. The result is a book that is both provocative and informative." ~ Winnipeg Free Press

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Technology has changed the way we date and mate

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In the form of effective contraceptives, technological advanceshave stunned the cost–benefit analysis of sex. Millions of women and men think daily about having noncommittal sex because we now have the power to do so with little to no consequences. In the past, people had a fear of unwanted pregnancies and STDs to consider before having sex. But not anymore.
According to a 2010 report by Pew Research, about 44% of young adults see marriage as an obsolete institution.
Let’s talk about birth control technology. Since women can control their fertility, most have concluded that the benefits of premarital sex outweigh the costs. It is now safer to have sex with less risk of pregnancy. Ages ago, a woman knew that if she had an illegitimate child, her chances of marrying a man with a good income became very slim. But even with advances in contraceptive technology, the number of unwanted pregnancies keeps increasing. But this doesn’t mean sex tech is not important; it simply means that it spurred social change leading to a rise in promiscuity.

Does promiscuity have any benefits? Sex makes people happy, so you would think people with more sexual partners would be happier. But that’s far from accurate. Research shows the more sexual partners you have, the less happy you will be. The economic approach to explaining human sexuality enables us to understand why we went through the liberalization of sexual values in the twentieth century and how the ever–widening gaps in incomes between the poor and the rich have led to increasing unintended pregnancies in impoverished communities. The remaining chapters of this summary are all about exploring these points.
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College students have different sexual experiences from their age mates who don’t attend school

Contrary to common belief, university students have less sex on average than their counterparts who aren’t studying. Let’s look at the fate of most students on campus. On Thursday nights, students are binge drinking at a bar off–campus. Most women will go to this bar just to have a good time with their friends, while others go there and use their drunken state to hook up with any willing guy. Only a few go there to enjoy male attention while seeking a relationship, but this proves impossible since most men won’t want to be with a woman who doesn’t give up the cookie within a few hours after they meet.
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The filters on online dating sites make it easier to find love, and many potential partners are discarded because of flimsy features

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Your value on the market limits who you are with when your market closes

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The meanings we give to marriage varies across religious and geographical divisions

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The happiest marriages are those in which husbands and wives are similar to each other

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People are starting relationships at different stages of their lives, and they are living in a way that differs from the past

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