'Price of sex' was never so low

New York: Now, you don’t have to buy flashy presents to get her to sleep with you. According to a new report, the ‘price of sex’ has dropped, with an increasing number of women bed-hopping during dates, without expectations about long-term commitments.

Social psychologists have revealed that more than 25 percent of young women are giving it up within the first week of dating, changing the expectations of men.

Kathleen Vohs, of the University of Minnesota, who has authored several papers on 'sexual economics' said, “The price of sex is about how much one party has to do in order to entice the other into being sexual."

"It might mean buying her a drink or an engagement ring. These behaviors vary in how costly they are to the man, and that is how we quantify the price of sex," the New York Post quoted Vohs as saying.

The research also found that 30 percent of sexual relationships of young men involve sex, minus no romance-no wooing, dating, goofy text messaging.

But, this new trend isn’t a healthy idea. Mark Regnerus, a sociologist at the University of Texas at Austin warns that if sex continues to be cheap over the course of multiple relationships, it will only add to men's reluctance to commit.

"Sexual strategies for making men 'fall in love' typically backfire, because men don't often work like that," adds Regnerus.

Therefore, it’s time for women to return the balance of sexual power in their favour by stop putting out. If women collectively decided to cross their legs, the price of sex would soar and women would regain control of the 'meet market', suggests Regnerus.

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