This is coming from someone who really couldn’t care less about casual sex (check the flair). So, this isn’t a complaint, just a thought.

We see a large swath of men (and even some women) talking more and more about how women are delusional in their standards these days. Even though hypergamy may scientifically be a thing throughout history, we’ve never seen this level of disconnect in expectations between men and women.

My theory is that the sexual revolution opened up the door for many women to have sex with men out of their league (looks and resources wise). This led to many women confusing sex for actual feelings or commitment, in turn making those particular women think they could land that caliber of man for a real relationship.

“But most women don’t engage in casual sex.”

You’re right.

However, most women are at the very least associated with women who do, if not outright friends with them. By self comparison alone, even the women who are not promiscuous started to believe they had access to these upper echelon men by seeing women who looked them, pulling these men, even though the promiscuous women were just being casually dated and fucked for a couple months.

It’s been a runaway train ever since.

Example:
Stacy and Brenda are friends.
Stacy’s new dude Chad, has a boat, a 6 pack, and unbeknownst to either woman, a rotation of about 8 other women at the moment.
Brenda gets invited on the boat a couple times with Stacy, and even though Brenda has only ever dated her high school boyfriend, starts to believe men like Chad are of her caliber as well now… simply by associating with a promiscuous woman.

Stacy may have already been a delusional lost cause relationship wise, but now Brenda also won’t settle for any man without resources, looks, fitness etc.

TLDR; Non promiscuous women have raised their standards by seeing their promiscuous acquaintances casually dating high caliber men, simply by self comparison to these other women.