The Sex War is fought between women, over men

Pussy rules the world

- Madonna

The 'sex cartel' theory is that unattractive women control sex through a 'cartel' imposed on other women, which forces men into marriage or LTRs

The sexual laws and attitudes in society are created by women, and act in most women's advantage.

Traditionally women exchange sex for resources, creating a market for sex, however this is not a free market; women, especially older and less attractive women control the market through "slut shaming", laws against prostitution, and in some societies sex outside marriage, in order to create a "coochie cartel" that pressures men into marriage or LTRs.

Marriage itself was rigged against men, because men's only access to sex was through marriage.

This explains why women "slut shame", "incel shame", and are generally against pornography, prostitution, and casual sex.

It also explains feminist's obsession with prostitution and pornography, as well as the double standards over male rape victims, female promiscuity, etc.

The war of the sexes is a battle between younger women who want a free market in sex, and older or less attractive women who want a cartel. Men are not an adversary in the battle of the sexes, men are the battleground.

The evidence for the sex cartel

  • Women prefer higher-income men, while women's income makes little difference to men

(sources: Buss, DM (1989) Sex differences in human mate preferences: evolutionary hypotheses tested in 37 cultures. Behav. Brain Sci. 12, 1–14. & Townsend, John. (1989). Mate selection Criteria: A pilot study. Ethology and Sociobiology. 10. 241-253. 10.1016/0162-3095(89)90002-2. )

  • Women slut-shame other women, and are aggressive against women who are competing for the same man

(sources: http://web.archive.org/web/20141126055040/http://www.uottawa.ca/media/media-release-2477.html and Vaillancourt, T. (2013). Do human females use indirect aggression as an intrasexual competition strategy?, Philosophical Transactions B, 2013 https://archive.is/yeKWo#selection-13417.1-13417.30)

Some examples of women controlling female sexuality:

  • Female circumcision:

This is done by older women to younger women, to reduce their value to men. An anthropologist says:

But when you talk to people on the ground, you also hear people talking about the idea that it [female circumcision] is women’s business. As in, it’s for women to decide this. If we look at the data across Africa, the support for the practice is stronger among women than among men.

(source:https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/04/female-genital-mutilation-cutting-anthropologist/389640/ )

A large scale review says:

Who supports and perpetuates these practices of female genital surgery? The available evidence points strongly and consistently toward women. The decision about whether and when a particular girl will receive the operation is made by her mother or grandmother (Hicks, 1996; Lightfoot-Klein, 1989). The female peer group regards the operation as a mark of positive status, and girls who have not yet had it are sometimes mocked, teased, and derogated by their female peers (Lightfoot-Klein, 1989). The operation itself is nearly always performed by a woman such as a midwife. “Men are completely excluded,” according to one work on the topic (Boddy, 1989, p. 84).

( source: Baumeister, R. F., & Twenge, J. M. (2002). Cultural Suppression of Female Sexuality. Review of General Psychology, 6(2), 166–203. https://doi.org/10.1037/1089-2680.6.2.166)

Men prefer sex with uncircumcised women (source: Lightfoot-Klein, H. (1989). Prisoners of ritual: An odyssey into female genital circumcision in Africa. New York: Haworth Press.)

  • Prostitution:

This is direct competition to LTRs. Women treat prostitutes as 'scabs' to the sexual trade union.

Women are more likely to think prostitution should be illegal than men (source:YouGov (2006). The Spectator - Sexual Attitudes. )

The suffragette movement was a campaign to criminalize prostitution, that used getting the vote for women as a means to that end. As their slogan said: "Votes for Women and Chastity for Men"

There are lots of quotes showing that here: Votes for Women, Chastity for Men

  • Feminism

Feminism is just the political wing of the sex cartel: feminists have tried to raise the age of consent to 21, to ban women from wearing sexy clothing and to ban pornography.

Married women and women with wealthy husbands are more likely to be feminists, which supports the idea the sex cartel props up marriage. (source: YouGov (2010). YouGov Feminism/ Suffragettes Results 180205. https://d25d2506sfb94s.cloudfront.net/cumulus_uploads/document/iopahgu564/InternalResults_180205_Feminism_Suffragettes_w.pdf)

  • Islamic clothing

In Islamic countries more women are in favor of wearing traditional clothing like the hijab or niqab than men, and it is enforced by older women

TLDR

Just to summarize the argument, traditionally:

  • Women choose men based at least partly on his income
  • Women compete for men
  • Women individually pressure other women not to compete with them (slut shaming)
  • (mostly) women collectively pressure other women not to compete with them (laws against prostitution, pornography, sex outside marriage)
  • The more power men have in the sexual marketplace, the more permissive the society, and the more power women have, the more conservative
  • In traditional societies men can only have sex within marriage, so marriage itself can disadvantage men and men will still get married
  • Older women's interests are directly opposed to men. Men want a more permissive society, women more conservative.
  • Younger and more attractive women ally themselves with men to want more sexual freedom while older women support more repressive attitudes

A longer description of the argument complete with more evidence and sources is here: The sex war