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Elizabeth Marquardt 01.21.2011, 11:54 AM
Mark Regnerus and Jeremy Uecker have a new book out with Oxford University Press, Premarital Sex in America: How Young Americans Meet, Mate and Think About Marrying. Regnerus is Associate Professor of Sociology and Religious Studies at the University of Texas-Austin and author of Forbidden Fruit: Sex and Religion in the Lives of American Teenagers (OUP, 2009). Uecker is a postdoctoral fellow with the Carolina Population Center at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. And, they’re both great guys!
Check out their interview with Salon:
…researchers Mark Regnerus and Jeremy Uecker of the University of Texas at Austin based their conclusion on data from four national surveys, as well as additional interviews with men and women between the ages of 18 and 23. The cold-hard truth is that women’s successes have left them with a small pool of similarly educated and financially stable men, they say. As the authors put it in a press release, “It’s created an imbalance that tips relationship power in the direction of the men. Instead of men competing for women, today women feel like they must compete for men.” Before adding this to my list of life’s painful ironies, I decided to give Regnerus a call to chat about the current state of “hookup culture” and the power of withholding sex.
Categories: Dating, Mating, Hooking Up
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