Ladies, I just read the most unintentionally Red Pill article and I wanted to share it because I think it could spark an interesting discussion in our sub. The Rolling Stone article in question is here.

It's an interesting and (in my opinion) horrifying read about the current state of marriage and relationships for the Millennial generation, and it provides a look at the effect that rampant promiscuity is having on them.

In summary, the marriage rate for Millennials is at an all time low compared to previous generations (20% for adults ages 18-29) and Millennial men and women are increasingly balking at the idea of monogamy.

An example of this can be seen from a series of quotes in the article by woefully misguided 20 year-old girl named Kristina:

For her part, Kristina isn’t even nostalgic for a time when dating roamed the Earth. She is adamant that hookup culture suits her just fine, that she for one doesn’t want a boyfriend right now. ...

“I was actually talking with my sorority about this. Like, if you had a promotion but you had to move across the country, away from your partner, would you stay with your partner or move? Most of us said we'd move. Having a guy hold you back? It's ridiculous.”

Instead, Kristina hopes to graduate and spend a few more years playing the field before getting married. In the process, she says, she hopes she never has to go on an actual date. “I'm obsessed with wedding crap, like I Pin wedding stuff all the time, and I love [celebrity-wedding planner] David Tutera and Say Yes to the Dress. Like, I'm obsessed with the idea of getting married, but I want to skip the dating part and just know who I'm going to marry.”

She believes hookup culture might actually make this possible for her generation. “We'll be so experienced in all the people that we don't want, when we find the person who we do want, it's just going to happen.”

Instead, Millenials who do want to be in a relationship are increasingly opting for open ones. A quote from one young man about his open relationship:

Jo ... had previously described their relationship as “95 percent monogamous,” an arrangement that he suggested once he realized that he wanted to give things with this woman a real go. “It’s been able to keep me really interested in this particular girl a lot longer than I naturally am in relationships,” he says. “I don’t get the feeling that I’m completely stuck in something.”

His 95 percent is a psychological level of commitment, rather than an actual statistic. Within the past year, he’s only had sex with someone else “maybe twice, three times,” but it makes him feel more confident in the commitment he’s made knowing that, should the opportunity to sleep with someone else present itself, he can take it.

For more "traditional" women, the dating world is now an almost unnavigable mess -- so much so that a few women felt the need to create a site to help women "to navigate this changing sexual landscape". What a noble cause!, you may be saying to yourself, but you should reserve such praise until you understand how they're "helping" these women:

A key mission of the Gaggle is to help women realize that having several ambiguous relationships could be as emotionally satisfying as having one certain one – in other words, most women have a whole “gaggle” of men they interact with in different ways, and each of those exchanges could lead to something deeper.