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Sex is cheap. Coupled sexual activity has become more widely available than ever. Cheap sex has been made possible by two technologies that have little to do with each other - the Pill and high-quality pornography - and its distribution made more efficient by a third technological innovation, online dating. Together, they drive down the cost of real sex, and in turn slow the development of love, make fidelity more challenging, sexual malleability more common, and have even taken a toll on men's marriageability. Cheap Sex takes readers on an extended tour inside the American mating market, and highlights key patterns that characterize young adults' experience today, including the timing of first sex in relationships, overlapping partners, frustrating returns on their relational investments, and a failure to link future goals like marriage with how they navigate their current relationships.
About the Author
Mark Regnerus is an associate professor of sociology at the University of Texas at Austin and a faculty associate at the university's Population Research Center. He considers himself a student of the sociology of family, sexual behavior, and religion.His 2011 book "Premarital Sex in America" has already been cited and discussed in a variety of media outlets, including the New York Times, CNN, Salon, Macleans, The Guardian, Austin American-Statesman, TresSugar, Time, The Daily Mail, the Washington Times, the Daily Caller, Christianity Today, Psychology Today, Fox7Austin, The New Republic, Commentary, and the Agenda with Steve Paikin. His op-ed on marital timing was featured in the Washington Post in April 2009, and one on the low price of sex appeared in Slate in February 2011.
