SOC 302 1st Edition Lecture 20Outline of Last Lecture I.Sexual decision-makingII.Sex is never a private matterIII.The sexual marketOutline of Current LectureI. The mating poolII.PowerIII.Changes in technology lead to changed in the sexual marketCurrent LectureToday we have a different mating pool than there used to be. Everyone used to be in the mating pool, but today there are three sections to it: people, mostly men, who are interested in sex on one end; people, mostly women, who are interested in marrying on the other; and committed sexual relationships in the middle. People who say they are ready for a real relationship aren’t on the “interested in sex” side. It is important to note this shift because when everyone was in one mating pool, they had these three things linked together. They had to commit. This is no longer the case. Power within relationships, a central principle in what’s called the “sex ratio hypothesis,”is determined not only by such things as the social status and physical attractiveness of the partners, but also by surrounding market characteristics. This results in someone else being dependent. In the modern mating pool from the previous paragraph, women have more power on the “interested in sex” side because they can be picky about who they have sex with. On the “interested in marrying” side, men have more power. There is an alternative theory: the Pareto Principle. It states that only the most attractive men have access to sex. Women who rank a 3 or4 are sleeping with men who rank 8, 9, or 10 on a “hotness” scale. Women who rank 10, however, aren’t sleeping with anyone because they are just “untouchable.”Two things are altering the historically stable buyer-seller arrangement: women’s increasing success and men’s decreasing success. The negotiating power over sex in more in the man’s domain than it used to be. What has changed? Technology, including the industrial revolution, the birth control pill, pornography, and online dating all suppress the aforementioned price of sex. Before the industrial revolution, men needed children and sexuallyThese notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.complementary partners to produce them. A man had to make a legally binding contract with the woman in order to assure her and her family that she would not be discarded or replaced once she bore children. Repressive as this was, it motivated people to marry. However, these motivations for marriage no longer exist. (Marriage ability of men still matters, however. Women who get successful jobs don’t generally want to marry men who aren’t nearly as successful.) The Industrial Revolution triggered a dramatic decline in both birthrates and children per woman, approximately dropping by 50% every century since 1800. This is because when children aren’t economic assets, the optimal behavior of those who can produce children