Have people become increasingly selfish and are more about sexual gratification than companionship?
In London at the height of the Victorian Era there was 1 prostitute for every 20 people (people including men women and children. ) There would have to be 400,000 prostitutes in New York City to match THAT number. Sex is very much less important since the invention of the pill. Something which does not provide the goal for which it was designed (reproduction) is bound to be much less inviting. The current sexual climate is diametrically opposite the real disinterest in sex of our age. Sex has never really been about companionship. That is a myth.
A lot of the historical baggage has been unloaded. It’s not really hard to have safe sex today. We’re more mobile than ever before. Women AREN’T automatically tethered to men for their livelihoods today, so they’re freer to pursue casual relationships and to speak about their sexual experiences. If a woman is reliant on someone for her room and board, their partner’s sexual prowess is naturally less important than their ability to reliably put bread on the table. Health also plays a role. Today, a woman can be single into her thirties (forties, too) and still have a reasonable expectation of finding a husband and raising a family; a forty-year old with child isn’t contemplating a dangerous battle to survive labor. So, women can “play the field” through their twenties, and can develop more refined (or just plain stronger) sexual tastes. So, I really think women are catching up to men in a lot of ways. Incidentally, “marital aids” have almost certainly existed since the Stone Age for wom
