I think the real problem with delaying sex isn’t actually what they’re doing, it’s how.
Today ppl don’t delay sex for understandable reasons like pregnancy fears or socioreligious conservatism.
Still think people underestimate the power of brain chemicals, and overestimate the power of love.
Love being the main thing about marriage is a fairly modern invention. Unsurprisingly so. And it’s lame.
Sucesfull LTR always look the same:
sex > companionship > deep friendship > making plans > achieving common life goals > end (by death or divorce)
It’s
a valid pattern. Not the only one.
Respectfully, that “always” is ultimately coming from the same perspective that intersectional feminist criticism comes from. Nothing against anything else you wrote.
Unsucessfull ones usually invert this order:
companionship > deep friendship > making plans >sex > achieving common goals > end
Aka loser game. I haven’t read the take OP mentioned, but last I read them, AoM was preaching pre-1960 retro stuff. And in those days, people either had sex once the girl trusted the man not to pump-n-dump (social factors being a deterrent toward such caddishness) or in some places times and situations they held each other in their arms passionately while they tried to make enough money to set up together, all the while burning with unconsummated desire.
The pill and other such changes may have had something to do with it too.
Either way, healthy married people should be at it like rabbits. Not necessarily all the time, but for at least 40% of the time.
Now imagine going through all those emotional phases, and arriving at sex with an uncompatible person in bed.
The whole “incompatibility” thing is mainly a thing invented by people who are submitting to the frame of the people shaming them.
More importantly, it’s a luxury of people who have little else to worry about. Aka a first world problem. Ask most happily married third-world dudes and they’ll explain better than I ever could.
No, seriously. Post-industrial prosperity combined with various socioeconomic factors is the primary cause of current obsession with sex and relationships.
Try to imagine a PUA guild at different times and places and you’ll see what I mean.
(Un)luckily, Chase might be right about the whole civilizational-life-cycle thing (I think history is too chaotic for such patterns to be inevitable) and we could totally be headed for an era of renewed manliness and probably fewer sex partners.
This is what they did 40-50+ years ago, and this is what people try to do today.
Huh? I don’t understand this part.
But yeah, I agree non-religious people who have a relationship without sex are lame. Especially if they’re in a dead bed marriage. My mommy told me that men whose wives won’t sleep with them should be able to get at-fault divorces, but most of the real world isn’t that enlightened yet haha