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Study: When women have rights, everyone gets laid more

Straight men of the world, there is a new solution to that age-old problem, how to have more sex? It's simple — just strive to ensure that your female counterparts have fulfilling jobs, equal chance for advancement, no glass ceilings, and receive equal pay for equal work. (And you thought foreplay took a long time!)

A new study from the American Psychological Association says people have more sex in countries where there is a greater degree of gender equality. The study, conducted in thirty-seven countries using over 300,000 couples, is based on a theory of "sexual economics." Essentially, it treats sex like currency and breaks it down into supply and demand.

Since men want sex, on average, more than women do, sex is a more valuable asset for a woman than it is for a man. In other words, a woman can use sex to get ahead in way that men can't. In a repressive society, sex is a woman's only asset, and so it becomes "expensive." However, when she has lots of different ways to get ahead (like college or art-rock), sex becomes "cheaper." As the study's author says:

If women don't have many opportunities to make money on their own, they need the value of sex to be as high as possible... When women don't have other opportunities, sex is the main thing she has to offer.

It's a clever — if not exactly sexy — way of looking at global sexual politics. And, at least anecdotally, it rings true. (Likelihood of getting laid on vacation: Iran vs. Holland? No contest.)

Feminism — it's win/win.  Read more at www.nerve.com

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